“...all the past is but a beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of dawn.”

— H.G. Wells
1902

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Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain

Scientific American.com - 11 hours 10 min ago

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

Categories: Astronomy

Moon dust may help astronauts power sustainable lunar cities. Here's how.

Space.com - 11 hours 10 min ago
Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce launch costs and make lunar bases more plausible, according to a new study.
Categories: Astronomy

How a 'mudball' meteorite survived space to land in the jungles of Central America

Space.com - 11 hours 54 min ago
A fall of rare meteorites in Costa Rica has revealed new details about a similar space rock that fell in Australia 50 years earlier.
Categories: Astronomy

JWST’s Fourth Year of Amazing Science Faces Funding Woes

Scientific American.com - 12 hours 10 min ago

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory

Categories: Astronomy

Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror

Scientific American.com - 13 hours 10 min ago

Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator

Categories: Astronomy

Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'

Space.com - 13 hours 10 min ago
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Categories: Astronomy

Why Some People Follow Authoritarian Leaders—And The Key to Stopping It

Scientific American.com - 14 hours 10 min ago

To protect democracy and counteract the allure of authoritarianism, reduce people's sense of fear and insecurity, psychology research says

Categories: Astronomy

NASA proves its electric moon dust shield works on the lunar surface

Space.com - 14 hours 10 min ago
New NASA shielding technology that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.
Categories: Astronomy

Webb Scans Asteroid 2024 YR4, it's 60 Meters Across

Universe Today - 14 hours 28 min ago

The Torino scale assess’ the risk of a near-Earth object impacting Earth. The list has just had a new addition, asteroid 2024 YR4 which poses a risk to Earth in 2032. The risk has been downgraded to 0% but there’s still value in studying asteroids that are going to come close to Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope just joined in the study by observing the asteroid to provide a new estimate of its size and showed that it’s spinning rapidly.

Categories: Astronomy

New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Funding Details

Scientific American.com - 15 hours 10 min ago

A long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersized successor to the Large Hadron Collider

Categories: Astronomy

Here are SPHEREx's First Images

Universe Today - 15 hours 21 min ago

The news is always full of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and more recently the James Webb Space telescope but there is a new kid on the block. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope was launched back in early March and we can already see its first image. The telescope has six detectors and together they can capture a region of sky 20 times wider than the Moon. The first images are uncalibrated but they give a hint as to the capabilities of the instrument.

Categories: Astronomy

Ozempic weight loss is deemed less praiseworthy than lifestyle changes

People seem to be less impressed when others lose weight with the drug Ozempic than when they achieve it via lifestyle changes
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Ozempic weight loss is deemed less praiseworthy than lifestyle changes

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 15 hours 29 min ago
People seem to be less impressed when others lose weight with the drug Ozempic than when they achieve it via lifestyle changes
Categories: Astronomy

Extreme weather could disrupt China's renewable energy boom

As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to bad weather – and that could encourage the use of coal plants
Categories: Astronomy

Extreme weather could disrupt China's renewable energy boom

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 16 hours 9 min ago
As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to bad weather – and that could encourage the use of coal plants
Categories: Astronomy

What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?

Space.com - 16 hours 10 min ago
A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights into long-standing astronomical mysteries like the "hot Neptune desert" and the "radius valley."
Categories: Astronomy

Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit

Space.com - 17 hours 10 min ago
A trio of secretive Russian satellites launched earlier this year has released a mysterious object into orbit, sparking interest among space trackers and analysts.
Categories: Astronomy

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APOD - 18 hours 10 min ago

Why does Jupiter have rings?


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

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APOD - 18 hours 10 min ago

Can the Sun appear to rise twice at the same time?


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

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APOD - 18 hours 10 min ago

If you watch long enough, a comet will appear.


Categories: Astronomy, NASA