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The phenomenon was spotted by the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) near the island of Naru in the Pacific Ocean. Four of the flashes were accompanied by a small pulse of ultraviolet light, which appear as rapidly expanding ring.

But the question of how a gas giant creates such a magnetic attraction remains. After all, it's made of, well, gas. Professor Eduard Chekmenev, an MRI researcher from Wayne University in Michigan, ...

Well, many things of course but one of them is the weather: particularly the kind of weather events that can not be seen from Earth. These are called blue jets, and elves (short for ...

The bobbit worm, or sand striker (Eunice aphroditois), is an aquatic predatory bristle worm that ranges from 4 inches to 10 feet in length and lives in burrows it creates in the ocean floor. The ...

A Stone Age burial ground on a small Russian island revealed more than 4,300 Eurasian elk teeth pendants found in 84 separate burials. The placement of the pendants in these graves suggests they were attached to coats, dresses ...

A new treatment is giving hope that paralysis from spinal cord damage could one day be reversible. Researchers from Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum were able to get paralyzed mice to walk again after stimulating their brains to produce a particular ...

A veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during the attempted launch of 143 satellites on the the Transporter-1 rideshare mission on Jan. 23, 2021. Bad weather delayed the ...

As the smallest and nearest planet to the Sun, Mercury is not so easy for us to spot from Earth. The planet is generally outshone in the night sky by other celestial bodies, even though it is relatively far closer to our own world than, say, Jupiter, which can shine ...

Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying ...

Srivastava from the University of California, Berkeley, Adam Marcus, from the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Daniel Alan Spielman from Yale University will receive the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize, the National Academy of ...

“Being able to walk around on land essentially set the stage for all biodiversity and established modern terrestrial ecosystems,” said Stephanie Pierce, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and curator of vertebrate ...

Calls to end hunting on Montreal Island. Janette Haggar remembers driving to work one Saturday morning in late November when she spotted a man in camouflage holding a crossbow at the edge of L'Anse-à-l'Orme Rd. in Pierrefonds. Although her phone ...

Nearly 600 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet known as WASP-62b whips around its host star at a breakneck pace. The planet is a hot Jupiter, and despite its gassy constitution, its atmosphere is completely cloudless, according to a study published this ...

At that time, thanks to videotape evidence from NASA's Space Shuttle missions, actual observations of sprites, jets, and later ELVES (Emissions of Light and Very Low-Frequency Perturbations From Electromagnetic Pulse Sources) would all be confirmed and ...

"Butterflies look different from many other flying animals, compared to birds and bats," Per Henningsson, associate professor in biology at Lund University, told CNN. "They have a very extreme wing shape — very large, short but very broad wings compared to ...

Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure—the microscopic crystalline domains that form ...

Data from one of the spacecraft's last flybys of Titan, a large moon with the precursors of life's chemistry, reveals that a huge lake on the surface called Kraken Mare is more than 1,000 feet ( 300 meters) deep — that's roughly the equivalent of the height of New ...

Looks like I'll be working from home for a while. What houseplants can I add to spruce the place up? The houseplant industry boomed in 2020 mostly because people were locked up inside their homes. Not only did we spend more time indoors, but we also ...

Almost three months later, the climate assistance desk has arrived at 100 questions. In this help desk, scientists search for answers to all questions related to climate or climate change. Eric Van Sebel is one of the initiators, happy with the input. “The nice thing ...

Finback whales are the second-largest animal species on Earth. They are considered endangered.