Perseverance Rover Captures First Rock Sample
PICTURED: The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken…
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House Armed Services Committee Approves $24 Billion for a “Space National Guard”
In an already bloated military defense budget, the House Committee on Armed Forces recently marked up the National Defense…
If We Really Want to Save the World’s Biodiversity: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Perseverance Rover Drills Up Nothing: Why?
PICTURED: An image taken by the rover of the borehole made in the recent failed extraction. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. MARS.…
New Mexico Wilderness Area Grows by 50% After Largest-Ever Land Donation
Sabinoso Wilderness Area in New Mexico, an inaccessible and tiny refuge just 5 years ago, has grown by almost…
Oxford IPCC Panelist Admits Cow Methane is Not Honestly Accounted For
In a paper published last year, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change member and Oxford professor of geosystem science Myles…
Why in One of the Most Biodiverse Countries on Earth is Everyone Growing Rice?
PICTURED: Aerial view of the landscape around Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, Indonesia. Swidden farming dominates in…
A Diverse Supply Chain Could Save a City During a Food Shortage
A new paper published today in Nature shows that as the climate continues to change, cities can defend themselves…
No Life in Venus’ Clouds, Maybe in Jupiter’s?
PICTURED: An image of Venus showing the clouds, taken by the ultraviolet imager of the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki,…
China’s Rover Videotapes Itself Driving on Mars: a World’s First
Like NASA which landed its fifth Martian rover in February, China’s Zhurong rover touched down on the Red Planet…
UK Expected to Open Floodgates on Genetic Editing for Agriculture and Livestock – Opinions Abound
GMOs or Genetically-Modified Organisms, generally come in two forms. There are those which are modified to resist disease, normally…
Tests Confirm 100-Year Old Female Found in Galapagos is Last Surviving Fernandina Giant Tortoise
PICTURED: Fern, the one and only Fernandina giant tortoise. Photo credit: Galapagos Conservancy. After a year and change of…
THC and Cannabis Found to Give Relief to Chronic Itch When Nothing Else Would
Pruritus, or chronic itching, is characterized exactly as it’s called, by an unrelenting and sometimes even debilitating sensation to…
First Quarter Investments in Space Companies Increased 356% Since 2020
Partially due to a new financial mechanism, investments in space companies surged in a way few things have since…
Brown U. Reports $2.26 Trillion and 240,000 Lives Spent in Afghanistan
The latest group of researchers attempting to quantify the costs of the Afghan War, launched in the autumn of…
Widespread Support Arrives for Biden’s Nomination for NASA Director
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. April 15th, 2010. PICTURED: then-U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) gives introductory remarks during an Obama-era space…
UK Announce Increase of Nuclear Stockpile While Pentagon Predicts the Same in China
December, 2016. PICTURED: Now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks at Chatham House when he was Sec. of State for Foreign…
China Russia Moon Research Base Welcomes International Collaboration
PICTURED: Artist’s concept of the ILRS. Photo credit: CAST. Published. The directors of Roscosmos, the Russian national aerospace agency,…
A Dip Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf Instantly Reveals 36 Creatures New to Science
British Antarctic Survey team members gathering ice cores despaired as their drill bit struck a boulder, half a mile…
Perseverance Mars Rover Will Touch Down on the Red Planet in a Week’s Time
At 3:55pm EST on February 18th, NASA will commence its 9th Mars landing operation in an attempt to drop…