SciencePhysics We’ll Have to Wait a Bit Longer for the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor The long-anticipated experiment will have a revised schedule and a different approach to reaching its eventual reactions. By Isaac Schultz Updated July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Shark Eggs May Simply Stop Hatching Under Climate Change New research finds that eggs belonging to the small-spotted catshark will have a much harder time surviving under the worst case climate scenario by 2100. By Ed Cara Updated July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
Tech NewsTransportation Amazon Delivery Van Ignites in Fiery Explosion During Houston’s Summer Heat Drone footage captured firefighters appearing to struggle to put out the blaze. By Matt Novak Published July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather Not Good: Hurricane Beryl Is the Earliest Category 5 Storm in Recorded History The hurricane already hit Grenada, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines with venom, and now encroaches on Jamaica. By Isaac Schultz Updated July 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherGarbage Here’s How the Plastic Industry Thinks We Can Solve the Waste Crisis A deep dive into the petrochemical industry's proposals for the global plastics treaty. Joseph Winters, Grist Published July 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Huge, Faltering Fusion Reactor Project Finally Completes Its Magnet System ITER, the largest testing bed for nuclear fusion on Earth, could prove the viability of the power source—if it ever turns on. By Isaac Schultz Published July 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon’s Lava Lakes Infrared mapping tech aboard the spacecraft sheds light on the volcanic activity of Io, Jupiter's second-smallest Galilean moon By Harri Weber Published June 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer: Elon’s Starlink Satellite Megaconstellation The reentry of defunct satellites is anticipated to increase the amount of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere by nearly 650% over natural levels. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ISS Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Mysteriously Disintegrates The defunct satellite broke apart into more than 100 pieces, raising speculation that it may be the result of an anti-satellite missile test. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEnvironmental Policy Engineers Can Build a Site to Secure Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years. Who Will Live Nearby? The material left behind by nuclear fission remains radioactive for millennia. Safely disposing of it requires stashing it for, essentially, eternity. Austyn Gaffney, Grist Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePaleontology New Research Casts Doubt on What Killed the Last Living Mammoth The last mammoths on Earth survived centuries of genetic drift before dying out some 4,000 years ago, but the ultimate cause of their demise remains unknown. By Isaac Schultz Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Scientists Inject Radioactive Material Into Live Rhino Horns Making Them Poisonous to Humans The poached horns will also set off alarms built for finding nuclear bombs around the world. By Matt Novak Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9ComicsDC Comics Meet the Would-Be Survivors of the Apocalypse in a Look Inside The Nice House by the Sea io9 has your first full look inside James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno's sequel to the 2021 horror smash hit The Nice House on the Lake . By James Whitbrook Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launches Critical Weather Satellite The rocket took flight on Tuesday, on a course to deliver NOAA's GOES-U satellite to geostationary transfer orbit. By Passant Rabie Updated June 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEnvironmental Justice Pollution From Epic Ohio Train Wreck Put 110 Million Americans at Risk A new study found traces of hazardous chemicals from the East Palestine disaster in 16 U.S. states. Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Grist Published June 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Is Being Sued for Dropping Space Junk on a Florida Home The space agency tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the ISS, and a piece of it fell through a family's roof. By Passant Rabie Published June 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace A Bonus ‘Hitchhiker’ Will Come Back From Mars in Perseverance’s Sample Tubes Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. By Isaac Schultz Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Well-Preserved Bronze Age Shipwreck ‘Changes Our Entire Understanding’ of Ancient Mariners The vessel was found far from land, challenging previous assumptions about the seafaring capabilities of its Bronze Age builders. By Isaac Schultz Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Waves of Methane Are Crashing on the Coasts of Saturn’s Bizarre Moon Titan Titan's large seas and lakes may be influenced by waves, but not the kind you could surf, according to new research. By Passant Rabie Published June 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Thousands of American Climate Corps Workers Will Deploy This Month This month, some 9,000 people will get to work guiding the country toward a cleaner future. Kate Yoder, Grist Published June 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
