A generic picture depicting a rhesus macaque.(Image credit: eROMAZe via Getty Images) A group of laboratory monkeys, earlier considered to harbor multiple ailments, got away from a vehicle in Mississippi after a collision — spurring officials to put down several…
Latest simulations indicate that no spacecraft’s well-being will be completely assured when the subsequent solar tempest of Carrington intensity impacts our world.(Image credit: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet) Alarming fresh simulations illustrate that a solar flare akin to the notable Carrington Event could…
Today in “The Chronicle of War,” we'll discuss those “air taxis of war” that exposed themselves to the greatest danger. We're talking about attack aircraft, which, on the one hand, were highly vulnerable to damage (suffice it to say that…
A depiction by an artist displaying a group of Nanotyrannus dinosaurs preying on a young Tyrannosaurus rex. A recent investigation suggests that the disputed Nanotyrannus constitutes a legitimate species, not just a young T. rex.(Image credit: Anthony Hutchings) A significant…
While it might not seem like it, this is the “most precise gauging of a star’s surrounding accretion disk” to date, achieved with a solitary land-based telescope.(Image credit: Yoo Jung Kim/UCLA) Due to an innovative “photonic lantern” instrument that could…
A solar eruption is pictured from the sun in the year 2014. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) A fiery conundrum concerning the sun might be nearing resolution. For several decades, researchers have been endeavoring to determine why the solar atmosphere is…