Sick of the cold? Mother Nature has a change in store: A dramatic weather pattern change is coming this week that will flip the brutal cold on its head. As CNN Weather reports, very few spots in the continental US managed to escape the arctic freeze over the last week. Its wind chills plunged below […]
Japan is on the moon — for a few hours, at least. The nation’s robotic SLIM spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface on January 19, notching a huge success for Japan: It’s just the fifth nation to land softly on Earth‘s nearest neighbor. “First and foremost, landing was successful,” Yamakawa Hiroshi, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration […]
Vicious winter storms have pummeled much of the US in recent days, bringing bitter cold and hazardous conditions. In Maine, where record-breaking storm surges have caused severe flooding, the weather also brought a rare glimpse of a 112-year-old shipwreck at Acadia National Park. As CNN reports, the two-masted schooner Tay ran aground on Mount Desert Island in […]
The humble Hubble Space Telescope has been instrumental in observing something remarkable: the possible and highly unusual birthplace of the most distant fast radio burst (FRB), extremely powerful and unresolved flashes of radio frequency, ever observed. According to Cosmos Magazine, FRB was first discovered 18 months ago by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope. As Futurism […]
A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, posing an immediate threat to a nearby small fishing town although it had been evacuated earlier and no people were in danger, authorities said. Live video showed fountains of molten rock and smoke spewing from fissures in the ground across a wide area very close to the […]
The coldest and most persistent outbreak of Arctic air in a couple of years will have the intensity and staying power to trigger feet of lake-effect snow and whiteouts in some areas of the Upper Midwest and the interior Northeast, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. However, there is the risk of a ground-covering snow squall reaching as far as coastal areas of the […]
Unless you’re sinking into quicksand, you might assume that the land beneath your feet is solid and unmoving. In actual fact, your part of the world may well be undergoing “subsidence,” which is where the ground collapses as sediments settle or when people over-extract groundwater. As WIRED reports, New York City is sinking, too, due to […]
After large earthquakes, there is an expectation that aftershocks could occur in the hours and days that follow, but aftershocks from some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded United States history may still be happening — nearly 200 years later, new research has found. Frequent aftershock activities stemming from a trio of quakes that occurred near the Missouri-Kentucky […]
The first week of 2024 has already been a rollercoaster of good and bad news for President Joe Biden’s offshore wind ambitions. As The Verge reports, the nation’s first large-scale wind farm just started producing power for the New England power grid. The bad news is that another major project on the East Coast threw […]
Hard-core scientists aboard specially equipped National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aircraft play an integral role in hurricane forecasting. Data collected from these high-flying and high-tech meteorological stations in the midst of a storm help forecasters make more accurate predictions during a powerful hurricane while researchers gain a better understanding of how storms evolve, which […]