The White House has been sidelining advice from scientific advisory councils since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, according to a new analysis released Thursday. The report titled “Abandoning Science Advice” by the nonprofit advocacy organization Union of Concerned Sc...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe year 2017 officially took third place in the competition for hottest year on record, behind 2016, the warmest year, and 2015 the second warmest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEgyptian archaeologists have started the search for the wife of King Tutankhamun in an area known as the Valley of the Kings. The 18th century Pharaoh ruled Egypt between 1332 and 1323 B.C., during what is commonly known as the New Kingdom....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn February 4, an asteroid called 2002 AJ129 is due to slip past Earth. It is between 1600 and 4000 feet across, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, but there’s no chance …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA NASA and the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope photo features the largest galaxy cluster ever discovered. It is so large that it weighs in at three million billion suns.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
There’s not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There’s an iridescent dinosaur. Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a crow-sized, bird-like dinosaur with colorful feathers from northeastern China that lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Scientists in the United Kingdom analyzed about 300 people and concluded that surfers harbor a lot more bacteria in their guts that are resistant to antibiotic medication, compared to people who swim in the sea but don’t surf....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNew onshore wind and solar energy projects are set to deliver electricity more cheaply than fossil fuels plants, with other green technologies also rapidly gaining a cost advantage over dirty fuels …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 2012, British gymnast Natasha Coates felt a little tingle on her lips after eating an apple. Tomatoes and strawberries soon followed. Months later, a severe anaphylactic reaction left her unconscious....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareScientists might have found a cave system at the moon’s north pole that could lead astronauts straight to the lunar water supply. The SETI Institute said this week that NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took photos of a large crater in the area that appear to show entrances to underground passages...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe year 2017 officially took third place in the competition for hottest year on record, behind 2016, the warmest year, and 2015 the second warmest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEgyptian archaeologists have started the search for the wife of King Tutankhamun in an area known as the Valley of the Kings. The 18th century Pharaoh ruled Egypt between 1332 and 1323 B.C., during what is commonly known as the New Kingdom....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 2013, James “Jimi” Crawford founded a company called Orbital Insight, barely noticed at the time amid the Silicon Valley froth. Crawford had worked at NASA for 15 years and wrote software for Mars rovers....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe test President Donald Trump specifically asked to take to prove his cognitive abilities can’t tell us anything about his psychiatric health, experts say. White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, who is also a rear admiral in the Navy, announced at a press conference on Tuesday that Trump g...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRe-creating a person’s DNA usually involves some sort of remains, like tissues, to use as a framework. However, a team of scientists have been able to recreate the genome of a man who died in 1827 without any physical evidence by studying samples of those from his family line, reported New Scientist...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareHumans aren’t necessarily becoming more dumb. However, if our genes that predispose us to spend more years in school continue to decline, it’s possible that our IQs will drop in the decades to come, according to a large study....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLife in the Solar System Likely Exists It’s one of the most compelling questions humanity has tried to answer: Is there life beyond Earth? Scientists are closer than ever to answering that question, thanks to a host of technological advances and each new spacecraft that launches—and sometimes even t...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDebris from a SpaceX Rocket washed ashore North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed. The debris was claimed by NASA shortly after the Horry County police …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareArchaeologists working in Siberia have discovered an undisturbed ancient kurgan—a tomb of a Scythian prince. The tomb appears to be both the oldest and largest of its kind ever recorded in southern Siberia, according to a press release from the Swiss National Science Foundation....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the sentence was announced, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Khartoum demanding the teacher’s execution for blasp...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe White House has been sidelining advice from scientific advisory councils since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, according to a new analysis released Thursday. The report titled “Abandoning Science Advice” by the nonprofit advocacy organization Union of Concerned Sc...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIf commercial space companies have their way, the next few years will be full of new attempts to make money off visiting the moon, according to Space.com coverage of a panel at last week’s Lunar Science for Landed Missions Workshop....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareScientists finally have an answer to what suddenly killed hundreds of thousands of antelope in 2015: a normally harmless bacteria made deadly by climate change. Three years ago, entire herds of saiga antelope dropped dead for no apparent reason....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe test President Donald Trump specifically asked to take to prove his cognitive abilities can’t tell us anything about his psychiatric health, experts say. White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, who is also a rear admiral in the Navy, announced at a press conference on Tuesday that Trump g...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA NASA and the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope photo features the largest galaxy cluster ever discovered. It is so large that it weighs in at three million billion suns.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
There’s not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There’s an iridescent dinosaur. Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a crow-sized, bird-like dinosaur with colorful feathers from northeastern China that lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Life in the Solar System Likely Exists It’s one of the most compelling questions humanity has tried to answer: Is there life beyond Earth? Scientists are closer than ever to answering that question, thanks to a host of technological advances and each new spacecraft that launches—and sometimes even t...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 2012, British gymnast Natasha Coates felt a little tingle on her lips after eating an apple. Tomatoes and strawberries soon followed. Months later, a severe anaphylactic reaction left her unconscious....
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the sentence was announced, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Khartoum demanding the teacher’s execution for blasp...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWith the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA team has discovered a patch of low-mass brown dwarf planets in the Orion Nebula with water in their atmospheres, according to a release from NASA.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share