The Scripps Institution of Oceanography has re-characterized the Newport-Inglewood and Rose Canyon faults, saying that they represent a single system that could produce a magnitude 7.3 quake if their offshore segments ruptured.
Natacha Aguilar de Soto has studied beaked whales for 15 years. She has spent dozens of months at sea, floating above the deepest parts of the ocean, straining her eyes and ears to detect whatever might be moving in the fathoms below.
Britain’s Natural History Museum is sending its most precious fossil, a 147 million-year-old skeleton that established the link between dinosaurs and birds, abroad for the first time.
NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite released the first images from a new instrument that tracks lightning storms on Earth. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. After Trump tweets, pressure grows for full Russia investigation (+video) · At heart of Washington drama, …
Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. Around 385 million years ago, fish started hauling themselves onto land.
Researchers at MIT have created a system where humans can guide robots through simple binary activities with their brainwaves. Here, robot Baxter sorts items while a person observes.
A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life. A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that’s …
… – SpaceX’s announcement that it plans to launch two private passengers on a flight around the moon evoked comparisons to Apollo 8, NASA’s December 1968 mission that sent the first astronauts into lunar orbit.
In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is used to lower a protective covering around the Cygnus pressurized cargo module on Feb. 21.
BEIJING China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, in what state media cast as competition to U.S.
The sun will come out tomorrow, the saying reassures us. Our rotating planet promises that half the time we are bathed in sunlight, and the other half we are exposed to the great enveloping cosmic dark.
More than half the world’s oceans could suffer multiple symptoms of climate change over the next 15 years, including rising temperatures, acidification, lower oxygen levels and decreasing food supplies, new research suggests.
With its new science-based target, HP is committing to reduce the GHG emissions from its global operations by 25% by 2025. Climate change is one of the most significant and urgent issues facing business and society today.
Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. How did we lose the universe? When, last month, NASA announced the discovery of seven new Earth-like exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, a dwarf star only 40 light …
The new Webb Space Telescope will be replacing Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb telescope will help astrophysicists look in to the formation of stars happening 13 billion light years away and gain knowledge about the universe’s formation.
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