Science

Octopuses Are Increasingly Using Trash For Shelter, Harrowing Study Shows

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Human waste has become so ubiquitous in the ocean, it’s becoming easier for octopuses to shelter in our trash than in seashells or coral. A systematic review of underwater photographs and videos from around the world has tallied 24 cephalopod species making their homes in marine litter.   For years, divers and scientists have observed … Read more

A Strain of Tuberculosis Traveled Across The Pacific Thousands of Years Pre-Contact

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Centuries before first contact with Europeans, new research suggests a strain of tuberculosis was already circulating from the South American coasts to the mountains. Deadly European diseases, like tuberculosis (TB), whooping cough, and smallpox, were spread around the world with colonization, but recent evidence indicates this wasn’t the first time TB arrived in South America. … Read more

Here’s What Doomscrolling Is Doing to Your Brain – And How to Fix It

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Many people have experienced chronic stress since the pandemic lockdowns. Added to this are the climate crisis, the increasing cost of living and most recently threats to European and global security due to the conflict in Ukraine.   To some, it may seem that there is never any good news anymore. This is of course … Read more

Officials Confirm Several Geomagnetic Storms Are Hitting Earth This Week

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The Sun is continuing its rowdy behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections almost every day since mid-January. That means the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have blasted in the general direction of Earth, which means we’re in for some solar storms.   The Space Weather Prediction Center of the US National Oceanic … Read more

Just Thinking Differently About Sexual Compatibility May Help a Dry Spell, Study Hints

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Psychologists have investigated two contrasting beliefs about the nature of sexual satisfaction, to find out which is more likely to help couples better navigate sexual compatibility.   Desire for sex with a new love interest typically starts strong and then wanes over time. Priorities rearrange, small incompatibilities become big ones, and the energy that comes … Read more

A Giant Tortoise Species Unknown to Science Has Been Discovered in Galapagos

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A new species of giant tortoise has been discovered in the Galapagos after DNA testing found animals living on one island had not yet been recorded, Ecuador’s environment ministry said.   Researchers compared the genetic material of tortoises currently living on San Cristobal with bones and shells collected in 1906 from a cave in the … Read more

Safety of The ISS Has Once Again Been Threatened by Roscosmos Chief

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Western sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station (ISS) to crash, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos warned Saturday, calling for the punitive measures to be lifted.   According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. … Read more

How Paint And a Speaker Could Explain The Physics of The Sun’s Plasma Jets

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The Sun is blanketed by spiking, ultra-hot jets of plasma created from electrically charged particles, and now scientists have figured out more about how these jets (or spicules) are created and driven up into the star’s atmosphere.   Via a series of laboratory experiments and models, a new study describes the spicules as being like … Read more

The first ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer is here with a cowboy Pike

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The first teaser trailer for the next live-action “Star Trek” spinoff, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” has beamed in from Paramount Plus and it looks to be a cowboy adventure to the stars.  “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, the first captain of Trek’s iconic USS Enterprise starship (before … Read more