Image: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-blowing scientific research, future technologies, new discoveries and major breakthroughs. Oxygen is one of the key ingredients to life as we know it on Earth, and its abundance or scarcity greatly influences the types of creatures that can survive in any given environment. Marine animals, for example, depend … Read more
Discover R136a1, the most massive star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it is an enormous behemoth weighing between 150 and 200 times the mass of the Sun. Understanding the upper bound of stars helps astronomers reconcile everything from star life cycles to the history of galaxies. A team of astronomers has studied the … Read more
A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will leave the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (August 18) and you can watch it live. The robotics Dragon is scheduled to leave the orbital lab Thursday around 11:05 a.m. EDT (1505 GMT). Watch the action live in the window above, courtesy of NASA, or directly through the … Read more
Red jellyfish found just at the bottom of the deep sea in Alaska. Credit: Hidden Ocean 2005/NOAA The movement of the continents is capable of strangling marine oxygen. A previously overlooked factor – the position of the continents – helps fill Earth’s oceans with vital oxygen. The movement of the continents could ultimately have the … Read more
There’s a one in six chance a massive volcanic eruption will change the world this century and humanity is NOT prepared for it, scientists warn A magnitude 7 eruption is a possibility for this century, a new study has determined Similar eruptions caused abrupt climate change and wiped out civilizations But one of the UK’s … Read more
Scientists may have found a way to use black hole collisions to measure how fast the universe is expanding and solve some of the mysteries surrounding dark energy, the mysterious force that causes space to speed up. cosmic expansion. The violent mergers of black holes launch ripples in space-time called gravitational wavesand the new technique … Read more
Plasma flares from the sun are heading towards Earth and will likely cause a geomagnetic storm. This could bring the Northern Lights south to New York, Chicago and Portland on Wednesday evening. Solar storms can disrupt radio, GPS, satellites and other technologies. Loading Something is loading. Flares of electrically charged plasma from the sun could … Read more
The emission from M87 has now been resolved into a bright, thin ring (map colored orange), resulting from the infinite sequence of additional images of the emission region, and the more diffuse primary image, produced by the photons that come directly towards the Earth (in blue outlines). When viewed at Event Horizon Telescope imaging resolution, … Read more
Most families have a skeleton in the closet. The one where Cousin Jo or Great Uncle Bob turns out not to be a genetic relative after all. Now, we all have such a mistaken parent. Your dog, goldfish and canary included. Five years ago, an analysis of tiny 540-million-year-old fossils from China concluded the specimens … Read more
A Russian spacewalk outside the International Space Station was halted on Wednesday (August 17) after a cosmonaut experienced an electrical problem with his spacesuit. Moscow Mission Control ordered Expedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev to return to the airlock after reporting a voltage fluctuation in the battery of his Orlan spacesuit. “Drop everything and leave right … Read more
