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Anyone Can Easily Find Plastic “Islands” in the Ocean
We use plastic every day of our lives — from grocery bags to fast food soda cups, plastics are an integral part of just about every industry. While a versatile tool, they also take a long time to biodegrade, if they do at all, making them a problem for the planet....
What Will It Take to Make the Shipping Industry Sustainable?
Our nation relies on freight today more than ever before. With a growing amount of materials being sourced from overseas and countless numbers of outbound shipments headed across the globe, consumers have come to depend on every one of the primary forms of...
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A citizen campaign returns iconic kiwi birds to New Zealand’s capital after a century-long absence
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The kiwi, New Zealand’s sacred national bird, vanished from the hills around Wellington more than a century ago. Now the capital's residents are waging an improbable citizen campaign to return the endangered flightless birds to the...
J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79
J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79.Venter’s death was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics research group with locations in La Jolla,...
Russia’s new homegrown Soyuz 5 rocket aces debut launch
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Russia's Soyuz 5 rocket launches on its first-ever mission, a suborbital test flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 30, 2026. The flight was a...
Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England
MIAMI (AP) — The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England.The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off...
Artemis 3 has been pushed to late 2027. Can NASA still land astronauts on the moon in 2028?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesArtemis 2 enchanted the world in the beginning of April, when its crew of four astronauts flew a 10-day mission around the moon and...
Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?
When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.For the first time, DNA – the molecule that carries the instructions...
A celestial double feature in May — two full moons
Sky-gazers will be in for a treat this month with two full moons gracing the sky.The first, which has the nickname the flower moon, will peak at 1:23 p.m. ET Friday. However, it will appear full Thursday night, Friday and Saturday, according to EarthSky.It will rise...
J. Craig Venter, ‘swashbuckling’ scientist who helped decode human genome, dies at 79
J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on Wednesday, his research institute announced.He was 79.The J. Craig Venter Institute said in a statement on Wednesday that he died in San Diego after...
Welcome home! Artemis 2’s Orion capsule returns to Florida after epic moon mission (photo)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.NASA's Orion spacecraft for the agency’s Artemis 2 mission arrives at the Kennedy Space Center Multi Payload Processing Facility in Florida on Tuesday, April 28,...
Egyptian mummy unearthed with literary text on abdomen in first ever find
Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.While other mummies in the area have been found with sealed packages containing papyri...
Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches 32 Amazon internet satellites to orbit
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: ArianespaceEurope's most powerful rocket roared into action early Thursday morning (April 30).An Ariane 6 heavy lifter topped with 32 Amazon Leo satellites...
James Webb Space Telescope’s strange little red dots may really be ‘black hole stars’, X-ray data suggests
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An artist's impression of a window into the heart of a little red dot, revealing the supermassive black hole within. | Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; adapted by K....