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Anak Krakatau blasts ash nearly 10 miles high
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupted in early September, sending ash nearly 10 miles high and disrupting approximately 3,000 flights across Java and Sumatra.
Nebula image wins Royal Observatory Greenwich competition
The Royal Observatory Greenwich named Ali Alobaidly’s Shark Nebula image as winner of its Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, competing against nearly 4,000 entries from 66 countries.
NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before
NASA scientists discovered the largest newly formed impact crater ever found in the solar system on the Moon, measuring 728 feet wide and created between April and May 2024.
When a beloved tree began withering away, locals suspected a killer in their midst
Residents of a Seoul neighborhood suspect a museum of secretly poisoning their beloved 100-year-old ginkgo tree with herbicide funnels, sparking a community investigation and police inquiry.
Amazon study reveals the best strategies for protecting biodiversity and carbon
A new study finds that protecting existing Amazon forests from fires and logging delivers greater biodiversity and climate benefits per dollar spent than forest restoration alone.
NASA just powered up Roman’s massive 300-megapixel camera
NASA has successfully powered up the Roman Space Telescope’s 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument, a major milestone in the observatory’s journey toward its operational destination at the second Lagrange point.
Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule
Astronomers have discovered that black holes of all sizes produce powerful jets at the same critical feeding rate, regardless of whether they are stellar-mass or supermassive black holes.
From blast off to splashdown: My days following Nasa’s historic mission to the Moon
Four astronauts completed a 10-day mission to the Moon aboard Artemis II, travelling further into space than any humans before them, with the crew safely returning to Earth after a challenging re-entry.
‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
OpenAI’s AI model solved a Millennium Prize Problem worth $1 million, shocking mathematicians who worry about the field’s future and the integrity of collaborative research.
Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane
Scientists discovered that a massive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific unexpectedly accelerated the breakdown of methane in the atmosphere, potentially offering insights into new climate mitigation strategies.
‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
OpenAI’s AI model solved a Millennium Prize Problem using 10,000 agents at an estimated $15m cost, alarming mathematicians about the field’s future and their professional prospects.
NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
Researchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered yeast to convert plastic waste and agricultural byproducts into edible proteins, vitamins, and other food ingredients, with potential applications ranging from disaster relief to space exploration.
Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years
An international research team has found that chemistry textbooks have incorrectly described the inductive effect, a fundamental concept in organic chemistry, for nearly a century.
One Mount Etna eruption took weeks. Another happened in hours
A Cornell-led research team analyzed two major Mount Etna eruptions, finding that magma followed dramatically different pathways and ascended at vastly different speeds, with one eruption taking weeks and another occurring within hours.
New Carlo Rovelli book challenges science’s understanding of reality and the universe
Physicist Carlo Rovelli’s new book challenges the traditional scientific quest for ultimate truth, arguing that physics reveals a relational universe rather than an objective reality independent of observation.
This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT
A German submarine that sank in 1917 carrying explosives is still leaking TNT into the North Sea, according to recent research examining pollution from thousands of historical wrecks in Danish waters.
Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t
A new study finds that captive-born saltwater crocodiles do not attempt to return to their breeding facilities after release, unlike wild crocodiles, offering new opportunities for conservation efforts.
A coral reef thought dead for 60 years is teeming with life
A coral reef off Benin’s coast thought dead for over 60 years has been rediscovered alive and thriving, containing multiple coral species and diverse fish populations in a previously undocumented ecosystem.
Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death
A new study identifies plague bacteria in remains from 5,500 years ago, revealing the disease was already highly lethal in small hunter-gatherer communities thousands of years before medieval epidemics.
Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans
A new study finds that climate warming is disrupting a 400-year connection between the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans, with effects potentially complicating future climate predictions.
Back-to-back Arctic storms can double sea ice loss
Back-to-back Arctic storms can double sea ice loss compared to isolated cyclones, according to new research examining decades of weather observations across the polar region.
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