Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers - Livescience.com

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this river and others switch between moving jerkily and flowing like honey.

Scientists detect record-breaking ‘ghost particle’ in the Mediterranean Sea - CNN

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

Eruption May Be Imminent In Alaska As Earthquakes Increase Underneath Mount Spurr - IFLScience

In recent months, earthquakes have been detected underneath the volcano at a rate of 125 times per week.

Meet the Sexome: The Bacteria in Our Junk That We Swap During Sex - Gizmodo

New research shows that we regularly transfer traces of our genital microbiomes to sexual partners—a discovery that could someday be used as a crime-solving tool.

Stranded NASA astronauts may be home sooner under new SpaceX plan - New York Post

NASA’s two stuck astronauts may end up back on Earth a little sooner than planned.

Moroccan fly maggot uses fake face on its butt to infiltrate termite colony - Livescience.com

Researchers have discovered blow fly larvae with fake termite faces on their rears that enable them to socially integrate into termite colonies in the mountains of Morocco.

Dancing turtles unlock scientific discovery - UNC Chapell Hill

Carolina researchers publish a groundbreaking study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.

Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China - Nature.com

Two recently discovered bird fossils from the Late Jurassic Zhenghe Fauna demonstrate that highly derived bird-like features and the origin of birds appeared much earlier in the Jurassic period than previously estimated.

First ultra-high-energy neutrino detected in deep-sea telescope - Phys.org

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 million billion electron volts), was detected on February 13, 2023, by the ARCA detector of the kilometer cubic neutrino telescope (K…

ICYMI: Science is considering retracting ‘arsenic life’ paper - Retraction Watch

Felisa Wolfe-Simon at Mono Lake in 2010 (photo by Henry Bortman) Science is finally considering retracting a 2010 paper claiming the discovery of a bacterium that could substitute arsenic for phosp…

NASA Telescopes Deliver Stellar Bouquet in Time for Valentine’s Day - NASA

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region

Scientist warns it might be too late to deflect ‘city-killer’ asteroid heading toward Earth - New York Post

The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which knocked the 580-foot-wide asteroid Dimorphos off course in 2022.

Aurora Alert: Geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights as far south as Michigan and Maine this week - Space.com

Strong solar winds could supercharge the northern lights just in time for Valentine's Day.

NASA announces new launch date for Crew-10, swap of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following construction delays - Spaceflight Now

Right out of a sci-fi movie : Earth receives a laser message from 16 million kilometers away - Glass Almanac

Imagine a future where deep space explorers send high-definition video messages from the surface of Mars, or where scientific data from distant planets reaches Earth in ... Continue Reading →

Scientists Just Discovered ‘Quipu,’ the New Largest Structure in Our Cosmos - Yahoo

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.