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New findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers to solve the mystery of why Orion's bright red supergiant Betelgeuse dramatically faded for a period of weeks last year. In examining the massive red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris, ...

Expedition 64 astronauts Kate Rubins of NASA (wearing a red-striped spacesuit) and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) spent 6 hours and 56 minutes working in the vacuum of space, most of that time dangling unusually far away from ...

In the wake of this economic disaster for airlines, ash concentration thresholds were introduced in Europe which are used by the airline industry when making decisions on flight restrictions. However, a team of researchers, led by ...

The S-type asteroid Itokawa. Image credit: JAXA. “Understanding the earliest chemical reactions involving liquid water provides crucial insights to how simple building blocks of organic compounds evolved into increasingly complex macromolecules via ...

At the same time, I thought I should familiarize myself with the “good guys” I had heard about through my Marin Master Gardener education — those wonderful beneficial insects that feed on the “bad guys” that love to eat my ornamentals and edibles.

New treatments for Alzheimer's disease are desperately needed, but numerous clinical trials of investigational drugs have failed to generate promising options. Now a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) ...

The proposed rulemaking to protect North Atlantic right whales from entanglement fails to meet the legal requirements set forth by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and must be immediately withdrawn for substantial revision. North Atlantic right whales can ...

Feb. 9, 2021: Both a starburst galaxy and a spiral galaxy, NGC 1792 can ben spotted in the constellation Columba (The Dove). In this photo, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun's rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time. · An international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a "space hurricane" seven years ago. · The storm formed in the ...

FLORIDA: In a surprising discovery, biologists found a live turtle in the stomach of a Largemouth bass in Florida. According to the details, the biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were catching largemouth bass for research ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts completed the first round of prep work Friday for new solar panels, part of a major power upgrade at the International Space Station. NASA's Kate Rubins and Japan's Soichi Noguchi installed mounting ...

In early 2016, an icy visitor from the edge of our solar system hurtled past Earth. It briefly became visible to stargazers as Comet Catalina before it slingshotted past the Sun to disappear forevermore out of the solar system. Among the many observatories that ...

The hurricane happened on August 20, 2014 and lasted for 8 hours. Being a space hurricane and all, it wasn't made of clouds, but of magnetic fields and solar winds (the same thing that causes the aurora borealis). That's still very cool.

Major economies led a rebound in December when emissions were 2%, or 60 million tonnes, higher than in December 2019, as a pick-up in economic activity increased energy demand.

Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood.

MONTREAL – A combination of irradiation and essential oil vapors would effectively destroy insects, bacteria and molds in stored cereals, shows work carried out at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS). This strategy would have the additional ...

Nine in 10 have received one dose, but in London it's much lower, figures show.

A team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), led by Professor Monique Lacroix, has demonstrated the effect of this process on insects affecting rice. The study was published in Radiation Physics and Chemistry.

Representatives of European value-added aluminium firm Constellium NV met with several United States legislators recently to lobby for the aluminium industry and its continued inclusion in the U.S. space program. Among the legislators Constellium's ...

The sixth 8.4-meter (27.5 feet) mirror—about two stories high when standing on edge—is being fabricated at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab and will take nearly four years to complete.