The black boxes of the flight recorders are bright orange to make them easier to find at the scene of the accident. (Image credit: marko_n via Getty Images) In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of mysterious incidents involving the…
The original Earth’s crust was remarkably similar to what exists today. (Photo courtesy of Roberto Machado Noa via Getty Images) New research shows that the modern Earth’s crust has a strikingly similar composition to the planet’s first outer shell, known…
(Image credit: cokada via Getty Images) Dyson spheres, the theoretical megastructures that advanced alien civilizations could create to surround their star and extract its energy, have a serious flaw: they are highly unstable. But now an engineer claims to have…
This reconstruction shows more than 1,000 of the 120,000 neurons in the brain recorded in the MICRONS project described below. Each reconstructed neuron is represented in a unique color, and a subset of them are displayed with different luminescence to…
WhatsApp reminds users of 12 new features that are available right now. If you love chatting on WhatsApp, you might want to take a look at the new features that Meta has recently announced. WhatsApp says that several additional updates…
Video Penguin returns home after family spots him wandering on beach Three weeks ago, a penguin named Gus was found walking along a beach in Australia. The Parks and Wildlife Service sent him back home on a boat with the…
Kessler syndrome ‘threatens our future in space’ unless proactive cleanup efforts are taken, according to a new report. (Image credit: janiecbros/Getty Images) The European Space Agency’s (ESA) latest State of the Space Environment report says that, if left unchecked, the…
Video Store Sells Items From Travelers’ Left Luggage: Tips to Prevent Baggage Loss Sonny Hood, senior public relations manager for Unclaimed Baggage in Alabama, shares helpful tips to help travelers avoid losing their luggage. A store in Scottsboro, Alabama, is…
SpinLaunch’s Meridian Space satellites will be stacked like pancakes on a ‘launch bus’ before being launched into space by a booster rocket. (Image credit: SpinLaunch) A California startup aims to launch hundreds of flattened “microsatellites” into low Earth orbit at…
The record-breaking early galaxy RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 and its spectra observed with the JWST. (Image credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, A. Weibel, P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), RUBIES team: A. de Graaf (MPIA Heidelberg), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), DAWN JWST Archive) Astronomers using…