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WEBPolaris Dawn Success: Civilian Astronauts Prepare For Record-Breaking Spacewalk Space 21 hours ago. Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise For Treating Another Type of Dementia Health 22 hours ago. Scientists Discovered An Amazing Practical Use For Our Leftover Coffee Grounds Environment 22 hours ago.
Earth Welcomes a New 'Mini-Moon' Later This Month
WEB1 day ago · This temporary mini-moon is actually a small asteroid about 10 meters (33 feet) wide. Officially known as 2024 PT₅, the rock was only discovered last month, and calculations of its path indicate it will become a satellite of Earth on September 29. It will be our little travel companion for 56.6 days, completing one full orbit of Earth in that ...
After a 20-Year Search, Scientists Have Finally Found Earth's True ...
WEBEarth's interior structure consists of a series of concentric layers, from the crust to the core. At the very center, with a radius of about 1,227 kilometers (762 miles) is the inner core – the densest part of our planet, a solid ball mostly composed of iron and nickel, comprising less than 1 percent of Earth's volume.
Quantum Entanglement Found in Top Quarks - ScienceAlert
WEB13 hours ago · The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world's largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just found entanglement in pairs of top quarks: the heaviest particles known to science. The results are described in …
New Study Detects Microplastics in Human Brain Tissue
WEB18 hours ago · A new study reveals the extent to which they're infiltrating the brain, too. An international team of scientists looked at the olfactory bulbs – the masses of brain tissue that take in smell information from the nose – in 15 deceased humans, and found the presence of microplastics in 8 of them. Researchers have previously found ...
Extreme Weather to Hit 70% of Humans in Next 20 Years, Study …
WEB3 days ago · Orange County brush fire forces people to evacuate from their homes, California, 9 September 2024. (Mario Tama/Getty Images News) Nearly three in four of us will face extreme weather changes within the next two decades, a new study predicts. "In the best case, we calculate that rapid changes will …
NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · New Horizons is the NASA probe launched to explore the outer Solar System. It visited Pluto, which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 39 astronomical units, in 2015, and kept going. In January 2019, it flew by a strange object named Arrokoth, which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 44.6 astronomical units.
One of Earth's Continents Is Rising Up, And The Effects Could Be …
WEBAug 19, 2024 · There is still a lot of uncertainty in the model, the researchers caution, particularly due to the lack of seismic data from West Antarctica. And these estimates don't even factor in what's happening with the ice in Greenland and the world's mountains.. Due to anomalous conditions ongoing in the #Arctic and #Antarctic, the total extent of sea ice globally is a record low for the date and ...
Earth's 13-Month Record Heat Streak Is Over. So What Happens …
WEBAug 15, 2024 · A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended. From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than records set only a few years previously. Air temperatures in July 2024 were slightly cooler than the previous July (0.04°C, the narrowest of …
Updated: A Major Neutrino Announcement Is Happening Today
WEBUpdate 29 June 2023: The second announcement is in! We've officially detected high-energy neutrinos coming from without our own galaxy. They've given us the first neutrino map of the galactic plane and also hint at the origin of mysterious cosmic rays. The discovery was made by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory built …