Category : science

EGU2024 - An intense week of joining sessions virtually

Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conferenc...

Laborers and street vendors in Mali find no respite as deadly heat wave surges through West Africa

Colossal prehistoric snake discovered in India

Pluto gained a ‘heart’ after colliding with a planetary body

Rocket Lab gearing up to refly Electron booster for 1st time

An ancient, cataclysmic ‘splat’ may have created Pluto’s heart

China rolls out rocket for next astronaut mission to Tiangong space station (photos)

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on company's 40th mission of 2024 (video)

Discovery in Maya pyramid reveals dramatic dynasty collapse, archaeologists say

Sorry, little green men: Alien life might actually be purple

Our Accidental Universe

Professor and presenter, Chris Lintott, talks about his new book Our Accidental Universe; a tour of chance encounters and human error in pursuit of asteroids, pulsars, radio waves, new stars and alien life. Even with incredible technological developm...

This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #16 2024

Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment& reduces past and future Arctic subsea& permafrost, Creel et al.,& Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea perm...

Barcelona to get floating desalination plant to help fight drought in northeastern Spain

Russia launches new Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket on 4th orbital test mission (photos)

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