Extreme Heat Is the Deadliest Weather DisasterHundreds of thousands of people die from extreme temperatures every year, more than any other type of weather disasterBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E NewsPeople cool off at a fountain in the Madrid Rio park...
In a dry river valley on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover may at last have found its reason for being: evidence of ancient alien life—and with it, a lifeline for the space agency’s grand but troubled plan to bring Red Planet...
Social media companies appear to be sensitive to criticismShutterstock/easy camera Negative news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring companies into changing their policies. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Bremen, Germany, and his colleagues...
A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flightSpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth and most ambitious Starship test flight yet. While the four previous flights have all aimed for a splashdown in the...
How do enormous black holes merge?Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Supermassive black holes sometimes merge, but for decades, astrophysicists have not known how. Now, we may finally have a solution in the form of dark matter. After a pair of galaxies smash together,...
A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to a tiny light sail punctured with billions of tiny holes Source link...
JWST Images Freezing Giant Exoplanet 12 Light-Years AwayThe Jupiter-like world Epsilon Indi Ab is one of the coldest—and closest—exoplanets that astronomers have ever seenBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazineThe exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab. Blue scalelike features are visible in the...
How to See Stars, Satellites, and More in the Daytime SkyIt’s possible to see celestial objects during the day, but it’s not always easyBy Phil Plait It seems pretty obvious that you can’t see any stars in the daytime.If you...
Hackers could view someone’s computer screen by picking up signals from the HDMI cableg-stockstudio/Getty Images Hackers can intercept electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your monitor and computer and decode what you are seeing on screen with the help...
Honeybees Wing-Slap Ants That Try to Invade Their HiveJapanese honeybees use their wings to slap back ants trying to invade their hiveBy Gennaro TommaA Japanese honeybee uses its wing to slap a way an ant attempting to invade its hive....
