Tiny pieces of plastic are an increasingly big problem. Known as microplastics, they originate from clothing, kitchen utensils, personal care products, and countless other everyday objects. Their durability makes them persistent in the environment – including in human bodies. Not only are many people on Earth already contaminated by microplastics, but we’re also still being […]
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An ancient meteorite strike hit what is now Scotland significantly later than previously thought, scientists say. The finding will rewrite the region’s geological history and change what researchers thought they knew about some of the U.K.’s earliest land life. Researchers initially believed the unnamed meteorite hit Earth 1.17 billion years ago, creating the Stac Fada […]
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Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fifth all-female spacewalk in history today (May 1), and you can watch the action live. Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will head outside the International Space Station (ISS) today at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk expected to last about 6.5 hours. You can watch the […]
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The diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide reversed liver scarring and inflammation. It’s among several drugs in the works for the condition MASH. Source link
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A volcano that has been dormant for more than 250,000 years might not be as dead and gone as it looks. Beneath the tall peaks of Uturuncu in the Sur Lípez Province of Bolivia, scientists have figured out what is happening in the magma chambers deep underground, as materials slowly make their way up towards […]
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QUICK FACTS Origin of the word “robot”‘: The 1920 Play “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” would Karel Čapek The first robot: Unimatecreated in 1954 by American George Devol The largest humanoid robot: Mononofua humanoid vehicle that is 27.75 feet (8.46 meters) tall The smallest humanoid robot: Mitsuya Tatsuhiko’s tiny humanoid robot, which measures just 2.27 inches (57.676 […]
Continue ReadingChina’s three-person Shenzhou 19 mission came home on Wednesday (April 30) after six months in orbit. The Shenzhou 19 spacecraft — carrying astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze — undocked from the Tiangong space station on Tuesday (April 29) at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT; 4 a.m. on April 30 China Standard Time), […]
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A runaway sausage dog named Valerie has been captured after a 529-day adventure, transfixing Australia as she roamed an island teeming with kangaroos, possums, koala bears and penguins. The miniature dachshund had eluded searchers on Kangaroo Island since November 2023, only rarely appearing in fuzzy glimpses caught by night-time cameras that showed her pink collar. […]
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It has been more than a decade since scientists discovered that Yellowstone holds huge amounts of helium gas, but questions remain over whether this helium could ever be extracted to address critical shortages. Now, a new study of ancient rocks beneath Yellowstone National Park and two other regions inches closer to providing answers. The research, […]
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SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink broadband satellites — including 13 with direct-to-cell capability — lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 GMT on April 29). It was […]
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