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 …
Asteroids Asteroid Flying by Earth Is so Big It Has Its Own Moonfuturism.com - Kristin Houser Earth will be getting not one but two visitors from space this weekend. Astronomers expect an asteroid known as 1999 KW4 to swing by the Earth at …
Geek An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North PoleGizmodo - George Dvorsky Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice …
Health These medicinal plants put brakes on cancer growthfuturity.org - National University of Singapore The leaves of a variety of medicinal plants can stop the growth of breast, cervical, colon, leukemia, liver, ovarian, and uterine cancer, a new study …
Technology Placental stem cells found to regenerate heart cells after heart attacknewatlas.com - Michael Irving Broken hearts are notoriously difficult to repair. After a heart attack this vital organ remains damaged, which can eventually lead to heart failure …
Plastic Chef Shares Horrifying Video of Plastic Garbage He Found in a Fish's Stomach - VICEVICE - Jelisa CastrodaleDespite more than three decades working as a chef, nothing could’ve prepared Ricardo Muñoz Zurita for what he recently found inside a fish. Chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita spent more than 20 years working on
Fungi Scientists Have Discovered The Oldest Fossils of Multicellular Life on LandScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR From deep in the shale beds of Arctic Canada, what seems to be the earliest evidence of life on land has emerged. The discovery of microscopic …
SpaceX Engineer charged with faking inspection reports for parts used in SpaceX rocketsThe Verge - Loren GrushA man from upstate New York has been charged with providing false inspection reports and test certifications for parts used in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, as well as vehicles from other
Climate Change Global Sea Levels Could Rise by Much More Than Previously Predicted, According to New StudyTIME - Ciara NugentGlobal sea levels could rise by over 6 feet by 2100––twice as much as had previously been predicted––threatening major cities and potentially flooding hundreds of millions of people, a study published
Helium Bizarre celestial object spotted is one of the rarest in the galaxynewatlas.com - Michael Irving The cosmos is full of strange things, like planets made of diamond, mysterious radio bursts and quasars that shine with the light of 600 trillion …
Earth Could We Move the Entire Planet Earth to a New Orbit?Live Science - Matteo Ceriotti In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous …
Electromagnetism The Basic Physics of the Kilogram's Fancy New DefinitionWIRED - Rhett Allain There is a new standard in town, and it's sort of a big deal. This new standard is the definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass in the SI …
Technology Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasAn “exceptional phenomenon” near the tiny islands of Mayotte may help explain a low-frequency rumble that swept around the world last year. On May 10, 2018, the geologic beasts of the tiny island of Mayotte
Science Meta-study suggests anxiety can be reduced by altering gut bacteria, but not with probioticsnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy It is still early days in the field of gut microbiome research, and while an assortment of research is beginning to draw compelling connections …
U.S. Navy China Now Has More Warships Than the U.S.Popular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiChina now has more warships than the United States Navy. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), informally known as the Chinese Navy, recently hit a landmark number of 300 ships—thirteen more than U.S.
Play buttonTesla Tesla Gigafactory 3 building in Shanghai looks almost completeElectrek - Fred LambertA new drone video update of Tesla’s Gigafactory 3 construction site shows that the main building is almost complete as Tesla rushes to start production in China. Tesla waited a long time to make its Chinese
Chevron Chevron starts deploying EV charging stations at its gas stationsElectrek - Fred LambertOil and gas station companies are increasingly looking at adding electric vehicle charging stations at their locations in order to stay relevant as the industry moves to electric. Chevron is the latest
Geek Scientists Think They Know How Pluto's Hidden Ocean Stays LiquidGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Recent results suggest that Pluto has a liquid water ocean buried beneath its icy shell. But how could such a thing be possible at the frigid outer …
Antarctica Scientists predict ‘catastrophic’ consequences of sea levels rising over 2mmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons A team of international scientists have issued a dire warning on Earth’s future if sea levels continue to rise. Should climate change continue to push …
Science The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncologyscientificamerican.com - Rafael Amado In 2017, the first immuno-oncology cell therapies, known as chimeric antigen receptor T cells, or CAR T, were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug …
Methane New methane capture method could reduce global warming by one-sixthAxios - Ben Geman Emerging tech to suck CO2 from the air is getting lots of buzz and cash, but a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability proposes a …
Methane Scientists want to reduce CO2 by releasing more CO2Popular Science - By Ula ChrobakCarbon dioxide gets a lot of attention these days. The scrutiny is understandable: On May 11, levels of the gas reached 415 parts per million, more than 100 ppm above our typical atmospheric levels over
Air Pollution Scientists Said Air Pollution Would Kill Thousands, So Trump's EPA Just Changed The MathVICE - David GilbertThe White House was not happy with a report that warned his new energy policy would cause an additional 1,400 premature deaths, so it instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to change the math.
DNA Scientists have created an organism with an entirely synthetic genomeweforum.org - Dan Robitzski For the first time, scientists have created life with genetic code that was developed from scratch. A University of Cambridge team created living, …
Carbon Dioxide Scientists want to turn one greenhouse gas into another to fight climate changetheweek.com - Shivani Ishwar A group of scientists from Stanford University have proposed a rather unconventional plan to fight climate change. Their research, published on Monday …
Play buttonScience Evolutionary Biologist: Mars Colonists Will Mutate Really Fastfuturism.com - Natalie Coleman Scientists have set their sights on getting humans to Mars — and maybe even terraforming the Red Planet. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s goal is to send …
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 …
Good News Just Add Water: New Salt Battery Could Help Spell the End of Fossil Fuelsgoodnewsnetwork.org - McKinley Corbley This new pilot program in Berlin could help to replace fossil fuels with salt batteries as a sustainable source of heat storage.The post Just Add …
Boeing Some airlines want Boeing's new '797' to fly with just one pilot on boardCNBC - David Reid Boeing's next commercial jet design could come with a cockpit built for just one pilot, according to industry analysts. Rumors have swirled for months …
