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Plants & Animals 1 hour ago

Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?

When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America's Pacific Coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate on the reason: Was it disease? Ocean pollution? Increasing ship collisions?

Planetary Sciences 1 hour ago

What do scientists hope to learn from total solar eclipse in US?

When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the sun's atmosphere to strange animal behaviors—and even possible effects on ...

Astrobiology 1 hour ago

Cosmochemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has had some fantastic discussions with researchers on the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, solar physics, comets, planetary atmospheres, and planetary geophysics, ...

Earth Sciences 2 hours ago

Study finds landfill point source emissions have an outsized impact and present opportunity to tackle US waste methane

A new study, led by Carbon Mapper scientists alongside researchers from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Scientific Aviation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, provides ...

Space Exploration 2 hours ago

ESA and NASA team up to study solar wind

In the run up to April's total solar eclipse, ESA-led Solar Orbiter and NASA-led Parker Solar Probe are both at their closest approach to the sun. Tomorrow (March 29), they are taking the opportunity to join hands in studying ...

Space Exploration 2 hours ago

Small satellite launch advances comms experimentation, international collaboration

In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featuring three collaborative ...

Earth Sciences 2 hours ago

The Anthropocene already exists in our heads, even if it's now officially not a geological epoch

An international subcommittee of geologists recently voted to reject a proposal to make the Anthropocene an official new geological epoch, defined by humanity's enormous impact on the planet. Assuming some protests do not ...

Ecology 2 hours ago

Marine protected areas safeguard more than ecology—they bring economic benefits to fisheries and tourism

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been used as a conservation measure for decades, but critics continue to argue that evidence of their economic benefits is weak, particularly with regard to fisheries.

Economics & Business 2 hours ago

Firms with exclusive networks excel by 7% in market crises: Study

Firms with exclusive brokerage positions in their collaboration networks outshine their counterparts by an average margin of more than 7% in crisis conditions, according to recent research conducted at ESMT Berlin. The competitive ...

Social Sciences 2 hours ago

Olympics not likely to swallow up skateboarding's subversive nature into its corporate spectacle, researchers say

The subversive nature of skateboarding is not likely to be affected by its continuing place in the corporate world of the Olympics, experts have predicted.

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