Indiana Jones has nothing on Nathan Hrushkin.
That's because back in July, the 12-year-old Calgary resident went fossil hunting with his dad Dion, and hit paydirt, when he found a fossil of a 69-million-year-old hadrosaur in the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Nodwell property at Horseshoe Canyon.
“I know that it’s...
An upstart Space Coast company that specializes in aerospace cryogenics was one of several selected under new NASA lunar contracts designed to push emerging technologies into the mainstream.
Eta Space, which has operations in Merritt Island and Rockledge, joined a list of 13 other American companies selected for NASA's "Tipping...
Could the climate crisis drive Homo sapiens to extinction?
If history repeats itself, then maybe. In a study published in One Earth Thursday, scientists used a combination of the fossil record and climate modeling to determine that three early human species lost a significant chunk of their climate niche right...
On Tuesday, LeoLabs, a company that monitors the paths of space junk in low-Earth orbit, announced on Twitter it was tracking a potential conjunction—that's space-speak for a mid-orbit crash—tonight between a defunct Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket stage.
https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1316147305125490694?
"This is a potentially serious event. It is between 2...
University physical scientists synthesize new superconducting material, developing a process that may help ‘break down barriers and open the door to many potential applications.’
Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that is superconducting...
We're going to the moon! This news comes after Canada signed the Artemis Accords between NASA and several other countries to explore the moon and beyond.
Australia, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates also joined the ranks, according to a tweet from NASA.
In a press...
Ah, Pluto. The once-and-possibly-future planet that sits way out near the edges of our solar system has always been a curiosity for astronomers, and when NASA’s New Horizons probe passed by the frosty world back in 2015 it captured some truly stunning images along the way.
Those images have been...
A bird has been tracked making a mammoth journey of over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) from Alaska to New Zealand without a single break, setting a new world record for the longest logged continuous flight by a bird.
The bar-tailed godwit, known as 4BBRW, set off from southwestern Alaska on...
Wolf-Rayet stars are one in a hundred million in our Galaxy. When paired in a binary system they can make among the most stunning ribbon structures known to astronomy. While on COVID lockdown, student Yinuo Han precisely modelled the Apep system.
While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney honours...
A 14.83-carat fancy vivid purple-pink internally flawless diamond will be the top lot at Sotheby’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction on November 11. It is the largest vivid purple-pink diamond ever offered at auction. Its estimate is $23 - $38 million.
Named the “The Spirit of the Rose,”...
