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Last year in August, a surprise tsunami in the South Atlantic Ocean mushroomed to distances over 10,000 kilometers (more than 6,000 miles) away, rippling through the North Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans. It was the first time a tsunami had been recorded in three different oceans since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, … Read more
Vaughn Cooper sees white-tailed deer every day in his neighborhood outside Pittsburgh. The species is common in most US states. Pennsylvania alone has around 1.5 million white-tailed deer – about 30 per square mile (2.6 square km) – while the US has around 30 million in total. “My dog goes ripping after the deer … Read more
SpaceX is in the process of losing up to 40 brand-new Starlink internet satellites due to a geomagnetic storm that struck just a day after the fleet’s launch last week. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 Starlink satellites from Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3) from NASA’s historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center … Read more
Cow’s milk is an excellent source of calcium which, along with vitamin D, is needed to build strong, dense bones. Milk also contains protein, the minerals phosphorus, potassium, zinc, and iodine, and vitamins A, B2 (riboflavin), and B12 (cobalamin). As a child I drank a lot of milk. It was delivered in pint bottles … Read more
Peering back hundreds of millions of years into the past can turn up some astonishing findings – as it has with the discovery of a second species of opabiniid, a soft-bodied arthropod with a segmented exoskeleton that lived on the seafloor during the Miaolingian (509-497 million years ago). The original opadiniid, Opabinia regalis, was … Read more
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. Sutter contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man’s land: … Read more
Everyone wants to live longer. And we’re often told that the key to doing this is making healthier lifestyle choices, such as exercising, avoiding smoking, and not drinking too much alcohol. Studies have also shown that diet can increase lifespan. A new study has found that eating healthier could extend lifespan by six to … Read more
Every year on Feb. 2, the U.S. mainstream media focuses its attention on the little community of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see if a groundhog named Phil, emerging from his burrow on Gobblers Knob, will either see his shadow (meaning winter will persist for six more weeks) or does not see his shadow (foretelling an early … Read more
Astronomy and anthropology have blended to help determine what might have triggered the decline of a major North American society 1,600 years ago. A vibrant culture lived in the Ohio Valley from about 200 BCE to 300 CE. These people were the ancestors of many modern Native American tribes, such as the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has to stay super cool to observe the cosmos. How does it beat the heat? Black paint. As the agency explained in its new YouTube series “Elements of Webb,” the James Webb Space Telescope‘s radiator is painted black to absorb heat. Just like how black asphalt gets hot in the … Read more