A Surprising Third Energy Pillar Emerges (Image Credits: Flickr) Tokyo, Japan – Scientists have identified mechanical forces as a previously underappreciated energy source that supports microbial activity and global biogeochemical cycles worldwide. A Surprising Third Energy Pillar Emerges Researchers introduced the concept of mechano-biogeochemistry in a recent review, challenging the long-held view that life relies ...
Horizon Scan Uncovers Vast Pool of Potential Invaders (Image Credits: Unsplash) Researchers have identified thousands of alien vascular plants that match current Arctic climates, signaling heightened risks to the region’s biodiversity as human activity intensifies.[1][2] Horizon Scan Uncovers Vast Pool of Potential Invaders A team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and ...
Three Decades of Unbroken Orbital Vigil (Image Credits: Pixabay) The International Space Station will meet its planned end in 2030 through a controlled descent into a remote Pacific Ocean site, capping more than 25 years of uninterrupted human presence in orbit.[1][2] Three Decades of Unbroken Orbital Vigil Construction of the ISS began in 1998 with ...
Unusual Coverage Spans Mountains to Coast (Image Credits: Flickr) North Carolina – A fierce winter storm swept through the state in late January 2026, depositing snow across every one of its 100 counties for the first time in more than a decade.[1] Unusual Coverage Spans Mountains to Coast On February 2, NASA’s Terra satellite provided ...
Neutrino Packs Unprecedented Punch (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Astronomers detected an unprecedented ultra-high-energy neutrino slamming into Earth in 2023, prompting physicists to propose it originated from the explosive demise of a primordial black hole.[1] Neutrino Packs Unprecedented Punch Researchers with the KM3NeT Collaboration recorded the particle carrying energy 100,000 times greater than the most powerful protons ...
Unifying the Galaxy’s Dance from Center to Edge (Image Credits: Unsplash) A fresh analysis of stellar motions and galactic rotation data points to a dense fermionic dark matter core at the heart of our galaxy, potentially displacing the supermassive black hole long thought to reside there.[1] Unifying the Galaxy’s Dance from Center to Edge Stars ...
Dark Matter’s Persistent Mystery (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) A provocative new theory challenges the longstanding assumption that dark matter permeates the universe, proposing instead that gravity operates in unexpected ways on the grandest scales. Dark Matter’s Persistent Mystery Researchers inferred dark matter’s presence decades ago to account for discrepancies in galactic rotations and gravitational lensing. Galaxies ...
Urgent Timeline Shift Reshapes Mission Plans (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida – SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule named Freedom arrived at its processing hangar this week, advancing preparations for NASA’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.[1][2] Urgent Timeline Shift Reshapes Mission Plans The Crew-12 launch advanced from February 15 to no ...
A Spectacular Stellar Explosion Unfolds (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Astronomers recently documented a colossal plasma eruption from a nearby sun-like star, providing vital clues to the mechanisms powering rare and powerful superflares.[1][2] A Spectacular Stellar Explosion Unfolds Researchers turned their telescopes toward EK Draconis, a youthful G-type star roughly 60 light-years away, and caught a dramatic ...
Most of what people think they know about the Maya boils down to three things: pyramids, human sacrifice, and that whole “end of the world in 2012” panic. That’s a tiny, distorted slice of a civilization that was far more complex, creative, and surprising than the stereotypes suggest. The real story of the Maya is ...
