East Africa The largest underwater eruption ever detected produced a brand new underwater volcanobgr.com - Mike Wehner Months ago, a bizarre hum rippled through the waters far off the coast of Africa, traveling around the world and drawing the attention of scientists …
Planetary Habitability NASA’s Kepler just spotted 18 new Earth-sized planets, but only one is worth dreaming aboutbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that the wealth of data it gathered doesn’t still hold some untold surprises. A new …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFungi Discovery of one billion year old fungi changes our understanding of life on Earthbgr.com - Mike Wehner When scientists search for species that lived hundreds of millions of years ago they’re not always just looking for ancient animals. Life on Earth …
NASA NASA needs your help to bring an asteroid sample back to Earthbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has already accomplished a lot since arriving at the space rock known as Bennu late last year. The spacecraft successfully …
Play buttonNASA NASA will reveal plans for its ‘Lunar Gateway’ today, and you can watch livebgr.com - Mike Wehner Despite plenty of skepticism over whether or not they can pull it off, NASA seems determined to make it back to the Moon by 2024 — or at least that’s …
Birds Scientists studied baby shark vomit and realized they eat a ton of birdsbgr.com - Mike Wehner When you think of the diet of a shark you probably don’t imagine the top-tier ocean predators feasting on birds — and not sea birds, but the kinds of …
Measles Measles spreads to another state, with half of the U.S. now reporting new casesbgr.com - Mike Wehner With new reports of measles popping up on a daily basis it was all but inevitable that this day would come, and here we are: Half of all U.S. states …
China Mysterious ozone-destroying pollution has been traced to Chinabgr.com - Mike Wehner Last year, a report surfaced that suggested someone, somewhere was producing a huge amount of an ozone-destroying chemical which had already been …
Science Massive double asteroid will cruise by Earth later this weekbgr.com - Mike Wehner Most space rocks that pass nearby Earth are solo travelers making their way around the Sun and slipping past our planet as they do so. Asteroid 1999 …
NASA NASA will send your name to the Red Planet on the Mars 2020 roverbgr.com - Mike Wehner Mars 2020 is shaping up nicely, with NASA recently revealing that its rover-hauling spacecraft is essentially complete and currently undergoing …
Ravens Ravens have emotional quirks similar to humans, study findsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Humans have very advanced brains — or at least we think that’s the case based on what we know about life from an admittedly small sample size of a …
Esketamine Now there’s a nasal spray that rapidly crushes depressionbgr.com - Mike Wehner Depression affects the lives of a great many people and, while there are plenty of options on the table as far as treatment, many are slow-acting and …
Science Surprise! When Los Angeles cleaned up its air, childhood asthma cases droppedbgr.com - Mike Wehner Breathing in toxic fumes every day is bad for you, and when you take those fumes away, you feel better. That’s the gist of a new study published in …
Science Google built an AI that detects lung cancer better than human doctorsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Science fiction has taught us to fear the inevitable rise of digital brains, and while it’s true that handing too much power to machines of our own …
Science Researchers say a tiny planet slammed into the Moon a long time agobgr.com - Mike Wehner Earth’s Moon only ever shows us one face. It’s locked into its current orientation, with a permanent nearside and farside, but it wasn’t until the …
NASA NASA teases completed Mars 2020 spacecraftbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Curiosity rover, InSight lander, and Reconnaissance Orbiter are all doing remarkable work on and around the Red Planet, but that’s not …
NASA NASA’s floating robot ‘bee’ is alive and well aboard the ISSbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA is betting big on the future of space robots. As automated gadgets become more and more advances, scientists are starting to imagine how robots …
NASA NASA’s Juno just discovered that Jupiter and Earth have something important in commonbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered some of the most stunning glimpses of the gas giant that mankind has ever seen, but it’s also taught scientists …
Science Japan just sent a privately-funded rocket into space for the first time everbgr.com - Mike Wehner SpaceX is already a household name around the globe, but there’s no shortage of other startups vying for their slice of the private spaceflight pie. …
Science Scientists invented a wearable band that controls your body temperature like a personal thermostatbgr.com - Mike Wehner Everyone loves to be comfortable, but what you consider to be a perfect temperature might be drastically different than the temperature preferred by …
Laos Archaeologists discover bizarre ‘Jars of the Dead’ hidden in Laosbgr.com - Mike Wehner Just like today, people who lived hundreds of years ago had rituals and traditions associated with death. Methods of burial or tributes to deceased …
NASA NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just hit an absolutely crazy milestonebgr.com - Mike Wehner Of all the pieces of hardware that NASA has sent to Mars, we don’t hear about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter nearly as much as we’d like. It’s an …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCarbon Plants are doing their best to save mankind, but they can’t do it alonebgr.com - Mike Wehner We humans are great at a number of things and very, very bad at several others. For example, we’re pretty terrible when it comes to managing our …
SpaceX SpaceX was forced to delay its Starlink mission yet again, but for a different reasonbgr.com - Mike Wehner Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: SpaceX was planning on launching a suite of 60 communications satellites last night but it was forced to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCalories New study says processed foods make us crave more caloriesbgr.com - Mike Wehner What is healthy when it comes to food? That’s a question that many people struggle to answer on a daily basis around the world. How much sugar, fat, …
Play buttonSpaceX Watch SpaceX try to launch 60 satellites tonight after yesterday’s scrubbgr.com - Mike Wehner SpaceX originally planned on launching its Starlink mission on Wednesday night, reserving a solid 1.5-hour launch window for its Falcon 9 to take …
SpaceIL NASA just spotted the crash site of Israel’s Beresheet landerbgr.com - Mike Wehner April was supposed to be an exciting time for Israel’s privately-funded space group SpaceIL. After years of development, SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander …
Science China’s lunar rover is helping to unravel a Moon mysterybgr.com - Mike Wehner The Chinese space program started 2019 with a major milestone when the Chang’e 4 lunar lander successfully touched down on the far side of the Moon. …
Play buttonScience This flying taxi startup just flew its 5-passenger jet for the first timebgr.com - Mike Wehner The promise of flying cars has never been fulfilled. Sure, there are pint-sized airplanes you can also drive on land but let’s be honest here, those …
