SpaceX's Starship megarocket aces launch rehearsal ahead of 1st orbital test flight (video) - Space
Liftoff is scheduled for Monday morning (Sept. 28).
By Mike Wall
This Newly Discovered Sea Spider Is a Parasite With Its Own Parasites - Gizmodo
The Salish Sea contains a rich diversity of sea spider life, recent research shows.
By Ed Cara
Astronomers discover the 1st black hole powered 'microquasar' in the Milky Way - Space
"It sits behind so much dust that it is essentially invisible in ordinary optical images."
By Robert Lea
New videos of NASA's Artemis II launch show the absolute power of the SLS rocket - Space
The SLS rocket engineering cameras offer some of the best launch views possible.
By Josh Dinner
A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way - boingboing.net
A dolphin named Bubbles chases fish until they regurgitate, then eats the vomited prey, a new study describes.
By Gail Sherman
Astronomers capture an unprecedented view of gas giant formation in action - phys.org
In recent decades, astronomers have reconstructed a fairly complete scenario for planet formation, from minute dust motes clumping together to the emergence of rocky spheres thousands of kilometers across, like Earth, or larger gas giants like Jupiter.
By Phys.Org
LSU lands $20M to unlock some of nature’s fastest secrets - Baton Rouge Business Report
LSU has secured a $20 million National Science Foundation award to build a cutting-edge X-ray facility that will give researchers an unprecedented look at some of nature’s fastest processes as they unfold. The Laboratory for Next-Generation X-ray Science and …
By Daily Report Staff
Tiny worms may help doctors treat human brain disease - KSL
Scientists are studying a tiny worm for clues that may help treat brain diseases in humans one day.
By KSL
After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays - hackaday.com
We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate. Since the first Viking land…
By Tom Nardi
Scientists Just Found a Dino Artifact We’ve Never Seen Before—and It’s Answering a Major Riddle - Yahoo
Digital scans of the badly eroded tracks reveal how fast the most famous apex predator was walking—and why.
By Elizabeth Rayne
Isaacman says NASA ‘dodged a bullet’ with Chinese lunar mission delay - SpaceNews
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency “dodged a bullet” with the unexpected delay in a Chinese lunar mission amid a US-China moon race.
By Jeff Foust
How mitochondrial heterogeneity fuels a dynamic organelle ecosystem - Nature
Communications Biology - How mitochondrial heterogeneity fuels a dynamic organelle ecosystem
By Nature.com
Physicists Detect a 300 TeV Photon That Should Never Have Reached Earth - ScienceAlert
The agreed laws of physics put limits on how far photons can travel in space – but researchers just identified a photon that's broken those fundamental rules and achieved the impossible, traveling 2 billion light-years to Earth.
By David Nield
'Mars constantly throws surprises at you': Perseverance rover finds evidence of ancient hot water in Red Planet crater - Space
NASA's Perseverance rover uncovered evidence of water interacting with rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater multiple times, including a period of hot groundwater activity.
By Samantha Mathewson
Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon - WIRED
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.
By Ritsuko Kawai
JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements - Phys.org
When the universe was still in its infancy—only 500 million years after the Big Bang, or about 3% of its current age—some of the universe's earliest stars and galaxies had already formed. Astronomers have long predicted that much of the gas surrounding these …
By Phys.Org
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History - WIRED
No, it’s not aliens, but a phenomenon caused by magnetic activity that astronomers have never before been able to pin on a specific planet.
By Jorge Garay
Deadly predators, colossal giants and animals visible from space: 20 ocean record breakers that will boggle your mind - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Dive into the extreme, record-breaking wonders hidden beneath the waves.
By Freya Parr
Crown-of-thorns starfish can help reefs thrive - Phys.org
Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) are infamous in the marine world. Their toxin-loaded thorns give them a menacing appearance, and they have a reputation as destroyers of coral reefs. New research from the University of Sydney challenges the perception of COTS …
By Phys.Org
Researchers Reconstruct Face of Oldest Known Homo sapiens - Sci.News
Scientists have created a digital facial approximation of the Jebel Irhoud hominin, whose remains are dated to about 315,000 years ago.
By Enrico de Lazaro