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[ad_1] The kelp forest that only eight years ago formed a leafy ocean canopy along California’s northern coast has almost completely disappeared, and scientists who study kelp and the species that depend on it are worried about its inability to bounce. A new study from UC Santa Cruz has found that the kelp forest on … Read more

[ad_1] Fungal ghosts are created by etching biological materials from fungal cells. Credit: Nathan Gianneschi Laboratory / Northwestern University The idea of ​​creating selectively porous materials has captured the attention of chemists for decades. Now, new research from Northwestern University shows that mushrooms may have been doing just that for millions of years. When Nathan … Read more

[ad_1] In orbit. The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 arrived on Mars on February 10, the day after Hope. This video, made by compiling images taken every 3 seconds by an on-board camera, shows the craft passing Mars as it enters orbit. In a few weeks, Tianwen-1 will drop a lander and a rover on the surface … Read more

[ad_1] An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will cross Earth on Friday (March 5) and will be outside our planetary neighborhood until 2029. The space rock, nicknamed Apophis (an ancient Egyptian demon), was first spotted in 2004 and will not pose any danger to Earth during this week’s flyby; it will cross the … Read more

[ad_1] An international team of scientists studied both the water and organic content of a dust particle recovered from the surface of the near-Earth S-type asteroid 25143 Itokawa by JAXA’s Hayabusa mission, which was the first mission that brought pristine asteroid material to Earth. The S-type asteroid Itokawa. Image credit: JAXA. “Understanding the early chemical … Read more

[ad_1] In the photo on the left, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough . Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX have set April 22 as the launch date for the next Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station. The … Read more

[ad_1] Scientists have identified a “space hurricane” – a swirling mass of plasma about 620 miles wide in the upper atmosphere above the magnetic North Pole. The hurricane happened in August 2014, but scientists didn’t know it had happened until more recently, when an international team of researchers noticed the phenomenon while studying satellite observations … Read more

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[ad_1] Which animal has the biggest ears? You might think this is the the elephant, and you would be right – sort of. As the largest living land animal, the African elephant has the largest ears of any living animal, according to Mary Ellen Holden, zoologist and mammalogist at the American Museum of Natural History … Read more