Scientists Found Invisible Gold Hiding in The Seafloor at Record-Breaking Concentrations - ScienceAlert
Japan has found a potentially perfect place to build a commercial underwater gold mine – although whether it should is another matter inspiring great global debate.
By Carly Cassella
See it: Scientists sample once-inaccessible tephra from wall of crater on Kilauea's summit - FOX Weather
Three scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey had the opportunity to fly into the summit of Hawaii's most active volcano to collect samples for research.
By Foxweather.com
Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns - Space
"These early quasars date back to the universe's infancy."
By Robert Lea
A US Underwater Human Habitat Is Now Operational. Take a Look Inside - ScienceAlert
Do you really, really, really like the ocean? Do you like it so much that you would spend multiple days living on the seafloor in a structure that is part laboratory, part dormitory, and part diving vessel? Soon, a crew of 'aquanauts' will do exactly that, in…
By Jess Cockerill
Leap Seconds Were a Headache. Now Timekeepers Are Considering a Leap Hour - Gizmodo
With the threat of “negative leap seconds” looming in the distance, official timekeepers are wondering if a leap hour might be a better alternative.
By Gayoung Lee
'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever - Live Science
Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
By Larissa G. Capella
Astronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can't explain - Boing Boing
Odd radio circles are huge unexplained rings, over 50 times the Milky Way's width, seen only at radio wavelengths.
By Ellsworth Toohey
NASA seeks research volunteers to spend a year on a simulated mission to Mars or the Moon - FOX Weather
Do you have a love for space and want to help be a part of the next research phase to send people to the Moon and Mars? Well, NASA has good news for you.
By Foxweather.com
A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies - NPR
Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead to robots that can monitor and sample the coastal ocean.
By Ari Daniel
Scientists Say a Critical Ocean Current System May Already Be Past the Point of No Return - Gizmodo
Scientists have long debated whether the AMOC is nearing collapse, but the latest findings are certainly alarming.
By Ellyn Lapointe
The nuclear option: Scientists reveal how atomic blasts could save Earth from asteroids - FOX Weather
If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new study published by Chinese scientists. But how exactly would this work?
By Foxweather.com
'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized - Live Science
New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy.
By Harry Baker
SpaceX stock in focus as launch, Starlink business hit new milestones - Yahoo Finance
SpaceX stock was in focus on Thursday after the company hit two major launch milestones, offering investors something positive to latch on to following a rou...
By Pras Subramanian
Could evidence of life on Mars be hiding in clay? Europe wants to send a rover to check - Space
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.
By Chelsea Gohd
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? - Quanta Magazine
Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone.
By Quanta Magazine
Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body's weight again after months of weightlessness - Space Daily
Astronauts returning from long-duration missions almost universally report burning pain in the soles of the feet and deep lower-back ache within days of landing. The cause is a spine that grew by centimetres in orbit meeting Earth's gravity all at once.
By Space Daily
On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear power - Space Daily
Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami's City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first commercially
By Space Daily
Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the ISS, and he has said the leaving was never the hard part — it was the coming back, when the balance and the strange detachment lingered for weeks after splashdown - Space Daily
Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the year in orbit but the weeks afterward — when his balance, his skin, and a strange watching-from-behind-the-eye…
By Space Daily
Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost? - Space
"The worst-case scenario consists of four astronauts on the moon at one time, only one month resupply window between Earth and moon, and moderate to high adverse environmental probabilities."
By Elizabeth Howell