Science

[ad_1] The rock with possibly the most fascinating history on Earth has an ancient name: Tomanowos. It means “the visitor from heaven” in the extinct language of the Clackamas Indian tribe of Oregon. The Clackamas revered the Tomanowos, also known as Willamette meteorites, believing that they came to unite heaven, …

[ad_1] The first known permanent asteroid population was discovered in the new study. Asteroids have originated from outside our solar system. Asteroids are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago. They have been orbiting our sun and hiding in plain sight. The study has been …

[ad_1] Washington, April 24 (IANS): Amid COVID-19 restrictions, the historic SpaceX mission to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27 will be a much quieter affair than it would have been in normal times, with the US space agency USA Asking people not to …

[ad_1] Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor, claimed that his brother’s body was kept in an industrial refrigerator for days. Afzal said his older brother Umar, 71, died in Birmingham on April 8. They kept it in the refrigerator due to a “300 corpse build-up” after Covid-19 died, a date …

[ad_1] Scientists, in a first, have completely mapped the surface of the Moon. The radiant geological map has been released by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute. Hankering for an in-depth look at the 4.5-billion-year-old history of Earth’s nearest neighbor? Well, …

[ad_1] Planet Earth (Stockli Challenge / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Researchers have revealed that Earth’s tectonic plates began to move more than 3.2 billion years ago, much earlier than originally thought, and just over 1.3 billion years after Earth formed. To date, some researchers theorized that it happened about …

[ad_1] A 1.2-mile-wide asteroid that will fly over Earth next week appears to be wearing a face mask, just like humans on the planet facing the Covid-19 pandemic. This was revealed by images published by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Called 52768 (1998 OR2), the asteroid was first seen …

[ad_1] An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed the evolution of the bird’s brain, using a large dataset on the brain volume of dinosaurs, extinct birds such as flightless Archeopteryx and Razorbill, and modern types. In their study, the scientists said in the article in the journal …

[ad_1] Researchers trying to save the Great Barrier Reef are trying to cool unusually warm sea temperatures by “shining the clouds,” a geoengineering technique designed to reflect more rays of the sun away from Earth. The team is spraying microscopic drops of seawater in the air over the reef, creating …

[ad_1] Increasing global temperatures due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, better known as global warming, pose risks to ecosystems, animals, and humans worldwide. And according to a new study, global warming in the Arctic is on track to cause some very deadly consequences in the near future. According to …