There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

— Anaximander 546 BC

Astronomy

The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider neurological effects
Categories: Astronomy

The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider neurological effects
Categories: Astronomy

Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that arachnids first evolved in the sea
Categories: Astronomy

Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that arachnids first evolved in the sea
Categories: Astronomy

Makenzie Lystrup stepping down as director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
Makenzie Lystrup will step down as head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Aug. 1. She'll be the second NASA center director to depart in just a two-month span.
Categories: Astronomy

Photograph the Perseids on August 12 with over $1000 off the Sony A7R V

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
The Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12 so be ready with the Sony A7R V, on sale for $3198 from Walmart.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA’s X-59 Makes a Move

NASA Image of the Day - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 11:38am
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft taxis across the runway during a low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. The test marks the start of taxi tests and the last series of ground tests before first flight.
Categories: Astronomy, NASA

Now is your last chance to watch the Marvel movies in order with over 40% off ahead of "Fantastic Four: First Steps"

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 11:21am
You can save over 40% on a range of Disney Plus subscriptions, which is perfect for catching up on Marvel content ahead of Fantastic Four's release.
Categories: Astronomy

Biggest Trial of Four-Day Workweek Finds Workers Are Happier and Feel Just as Productive

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 11:00am

The largest yet study on a four-day workweek included 141 companies, 90 percent of which retained the arrangement at the end of the six-month experiment

Categories: Astronomy

Nearly 300 NASA scientists sign 'Voyager Declaration' to protest Trump space science budget cuts

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 11:00am
Nearly 300 current and former NASA employees — including astronauts, engineers and scientists — have signed the "Voyager Declaration," a formal statement raising alarm over recent actions and steep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
Categories: Astronomy

New 'Predator: Badlands' trailer confirms an unexpected alliance with ties to the 'Alien' universe

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 10:30am
The second Predator: Badlands trailer is full of alien beasts, gorgeous sci-fi vistas, and a Yautja hero who finds an unlikely ally in a synthetic.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video)

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 10:16am
NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off July 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small agency satellites that will act as technology demonstrators to monitor space weather.
Categories: Astronomy

Europe tests largest-ever Mars parachute in the stratosphere above the Arctic (video)

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 10:00am
A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arctic stratosphere.
Categories: Astronomy

Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 9:00am

My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.

Categories: Astronomy

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun will fly on Blue Origin's next space tourism launch

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 9:00am
Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, is one of the six people who will fly to suborbital space on Blue Origin's next tourist mission.
Categories: Astronomy

Night sky glows purple above Vera Rubin Observatory | Space photo of the day for July 22, 2025

Space.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:30am
The Vera Rubin Observatory in the Atacama Desert recalibrated under a purple night sky.
Categories: Astronomy

Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:00am
Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped it tackle much larger dinosaurs
Categories: Astronomy

Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:00am
Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped it tackle much larger dinosaurs
Categories: Astronomy

NASA Employees Warn Science and Safety Are at Risk from White House Budget Cuts

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:00am

A declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at risk and joins similar documents from staff at other federal science agencies

Categories: Astronomy

This Ancient Pristine Galaxy Validates the Big Bang

Universe Today - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 7:29am

If astronomers can find ancient, pristine galaxies with no metals, they will confirm our understanding of the Big Bang. Those galaxies have proven elusive, but a team of astronomers think they've found one. It may be the first Population 3 galaxy.

Categories: Astronomy