Otherweb Archive - News - Science

• Breakthrough extends fuel cell lifespan beyond 200,000 hours, paving the way for clean long-haul trucking
• New research shatters long-held beliefs about asteroid Vesta
• Evolution of pugs and Persians converges on cuteness
• Amazon Finally Enters the Satellite Internet Race, Taking on SpaceX's Starlink
• Amazon takes on Musk’s Starlink with launch of first internet satellites
• UK weather: Temperatures to reach 29C in warmest start to May on record
• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
• Power outage in Spain and Portugal still a mystery, but leaders vow to solve it and prevent a recurrence
• How Spain powered back to life from unprecedented national blackout
• UK project trials carbon capture at sea to help tackle climate change
• Major US city on volcano watch is rocked by earthquake
• Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink
• Yellowstone holds potentially untapped cache of 'carbon-free' helium for rockets, reactors and superconductors
• See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week
• 40-year-old spy satellite photos are helping find forgotten land mines in Cambodia
• Do sharks make noises? An accidental discovery might just answer that question
• New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0
• Heavy dusting of 'pineapple powder' paints Hawaii's volcanoes white
• EDITORIAL: More hot air on global warming
• Saltwater intrusion in Mississippi River threatens livelihood of residents south of New Orleans
• Mysterious 'orb' captured soaring past sun in new NASA video
• What’s it like to be 70 years old in space? “All those little aches and pains heal up.”
• After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth
• 'Car-sized' satellite to fall back to Earth next month
• What happens inside neutron stars, the universe's densest known objects?
• Tornadoes, Giant Hail, and Damaging Winds Set to Rip Through the Upper Midwest Today
• Giant Invisible Cloud Discovered Near Earth
• March 2025 featured fires, floods and record-setting warmth in the US
• Nigerian Kitchen Plants Fight Cancer Naturally
• Squeezable Material Points to Improved Computer Memory Storage
• Nest-Desperate Birds Battle Hardest for Homes
• Cargo Planes Could Cool Overheating Planet
• Toronto braces for wild weather swing this week
• Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time
• Scientists use the JWST to study an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through the Cosmic Dark Ages
• Last summer in Lapland likely warmest in 2,000 years
• Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Price Target Cut to $580 but Remains a Top Pick Ahead of Earnings
• DOJ Seeks Tough Measures on Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) to Curb AI-Driven Search Monopoly
• SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission, lands rocket at sea (photos)
• From mining giants to Big Oil, major players are jumping on the 'white hydrogen' bandwagon
• Watch Neil Armstrong wore on moonwalk sold at auction for $2.1 million
• UK weather: Temperatures could climb to 29C in country-wide sunny spell, Met Office says
• Europe must boost space investment to secure autonomy from US, says ESA boss
• What will Earth look like if all its land ice melts? These maps show the clear answer.
• First clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized
• Twin peaks: Air conditioning, higher temperatures leading to double surge for electricity demand in Alberta
• Scientists say our consciousness may actually be altering reality
• The big idea: will we ever make life in the lab?
• Does outer space end – or go on forever?
• Colors are universal — even if our perception of them is subjective
• UK weather forecast: Mini heatwave as April to be warmest in years
• A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems
• Tattooing tardigrades could have important implications for the development of living microrobotics
• Space photo of the week: Iconic 'Eagle Nebula' gets a major glow-up on Hubble's 35th anniversary
• Trump administration cancels lease for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies lab in New York City
• How to fix a wobbly table at the pub - and it DOESN'T involve coasters
• How humans could travel millions of light years to distant planets
• Can you burp in space?
• Rare diseases often go undiagnosed or untreated in parts of Africa. A project seeks to change that
• ELDER: Uncovering the 'dirty' truths about electric vehicles
• Dazzling Images to Celebrate Hubble's 35th Anniversary | OGN Daily
• Winners of This Year's Goldman Environmental Prizes | OGN Daily
• Scientist says Big Bang theory is actually wrong
• This week on This Week in Space we take a deep dive into the Hubble Space Telescope
• A billion-year-old bedrock core is slowly sinking into the Earth’s mantle
• Webb telescope may have just revealed a spiral galaxy's startling secret
• How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips
• International Dark Sky Week 2025: See these 10 night sky sights to celebrate
• Rob Brezsny’s weekly horoscope for April 26-May 20
• Climate crisis seen as low priority for German employees, study finds
• 'We learned so much that we didn't know': Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander mission was full of surprises
• Russian satellite at centre of nuclear weapons allegations is spinning out of control, analysts say
• Uranus occultation allows scientists to study planet’s atmosphere and rings
• Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988
• Scientists sound alarm on iconic US city SINKING at startling rate
• Senators press Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief, on his ties to Elon Musk
• Conversations That Matter: Conserve 30 per cent of B.C. by 2030
• Eruption warning updated for massive US volcano
• Oldest-known ant preserved in 113 million-year-old Brazilian fossil
• Amid federal research cuts, some Antarctic tourist cruises are sponsoring scientists
• Hubble helps explore the wreckage of a supernova star explosion in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way (image)
• Winnipeggers urged to take part in giveaway, compost and yard waste initiatives - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca
• Images taken by a NASA satellite reveal the extent of a fast-moving wildfire in southern New Jersey
• Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos
• Why our waistlines expand in middle age: Stem cells
• Appliance found in millions of American homes linked to cancer risk
• Unfathomable reason liberal woman rejects 'dream' career at NASA
• UK Weather: mini heatwave, where it will be warmest next week
• The brightest star in the night sky shows off this spring: How to see a scintillating Sirius
• Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
• Texas rocked by earthquake swarm in less than five hours
• ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
• Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see
• Scientists discover the most bitter tasting thing EVER
• Ape Empathy Shatters Species Stereotypes
• Rocket Report: The pitfalls of rideshare; China launches next Tiangong crew
• ‘It’s Fun Making a Difference’ Legions of Amish Come to Help Rebuild NC Town
• Amateur astrophotographer captures a stunning galaxy 24 million light-years from Earth (photo)
• Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers
• Just 111 companies have cost the world $28 TRILLION in climate damage