Rose Pastore

9/3/22

Scrubbed Again: NASA Calls Off Second SLS Launch Attempt Due to Hydrogen Leak

NASA's return to the Moon is delayed yet again, after engineers failed to plug a hydrogen leak on the launch pad…

5/3/22

Spiders Catapult From Sex

Male spiders have evolved a defense to avoid getting eaten after mating.

8/30/21

New Northernmost Island Discovered Above Greenland

Researchers found the strip of land while collecting samples in the Arctic.

6/10/21

The 9 Best Photos of This Morning's Sunrise Eclipse

The Sun rose as a crescent over many parts of the world on Thursday morning.

5/7/21

Listen to the Incredible Sound of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flying on Mars

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover has managed to capture the sounds made by Ingenuity during the…

3/19/21

Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon, First Predicted 50 Years Ago

Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely…

12/31/20

The Biggest Science News of 2020

[Yelling into a cavernous chamber as supernovae explode in the dark and a gust of hot wind comes whistling through] S…

10/5/20

CDC Finally Acknowledges That Covid-19 Can Be Airborne

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday updated its covid-19 guidance to say that the coronavirus…

9/24/20

‘Extremely Brilliant’ X-Ray Beams Are About to Revolutionize How We See Into Matter

A new way of producing powerful X-ray beams—the brightest on Earth—is now making it possible to create 3D images of…

6/18/20

You May Not See as Much Color as You Think You Do

If everything in your peripheral vision suddenly changed from color to black and white, would you notice? There’s a…

3/6/20

Nevertheless, She Combusted [Update: She'll Not?]

Update 6pm ET: This is possibly a hoax—but reportedly not. CBS Los Angeles, which originally reported the supposed…

8/9/18

The Only Known Sound in Space Is This 'Singing' Black Hole

Everyone knows there is no sound in space. After all, a sound wave requires a medium, like air or water, to travel…

8/4/18

What Caused Carnegie Hall to Lose Its Famous Acoustics in 1986?

In May 1986, the venerated Carnegie Hall concert venue in New York City shut down for 30 weeks of major repairs. The…

7/26/18

Hear the Aztec 'Death Whistle' That Mystified Scientists

In the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec temple—a victim…

7/19/18

What Caused the Loudest Underwater Sound Ever Recorded?

In 1997, scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were recording the sounds of…

7/12/18

What's Causing the Mysterious Hums Heard Around the World?

People in cities around the world—from Taos, New Mexico, to Windsor, Ontario, to Blackburn, England, to Auckland,…

7/4/18

Don't Use Spray Sunscreen

I love sunscreen. I wear it everyday—even in the winter, even when it’s overcast. Applying sunscreen regularly is…

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