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09/10/2020

What do animals do during a solar eclipse?

A citizen-science project gathers data to put science behind the tales If the sun winks out in the middle of the day, birds may fall silent and bees leave the fields. Tales have reported animals behaving strangely during a solar eclipse’s totality. That’s when the moon completely blocks out the ...

09/10/2020

New solar system found to have 7 Earth-size planets

Three may even orbit in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone Astronomers have just identified a nearby solar system hosting seven Earth-sized planets. Most intriguing: Three planets that orbit its central star — known as TRAPPIST-1 — may even be within a habitable zone. That means they fall within a region...

09/10/2020

How Long the Human Body Could Survive on Each Planet of the Solar System

Let’s assume that people learned how to breathe in space without special equipment and we found a way to reach any planet in the solar system. Despite the fact that this information is not likely to be practical in the near future, let’s have a look at how a person would feel on the different pl...

09/10/2020

As big animals p**p out

Extinction of Earth’s biggest creatures has shrunk the cycle that fertilizes continents Long after the dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago, many giants continued to roam the Earth. Some mammals were big as backhoes! Mammoths grazed on grasslands, and elephant-sized ground sloths tore apar...

09/10/2020

Can Spaceflight Save the Planet?

Spin-offs from space science and exploration offer eco-friendly benefits for Earth The planet is warming, the oceans are acidifying, the Amazon is burning down, and plastic is snowing on the Arctic. Humanity’s environmental devastation is so severe, experts say, that a global-scale ecological cata...

09/10/2020

As it turns out, there’s this thing called the half Christmas tree which is exactly what you’re thinking—it is literally a Christmas tree that is vertically sawed in half to save space and to help the lazy people minimize decoration.

09/10/2020

The hustlers, the go-getters, the entrepreneurs, the grinders. These nouns have taken on a very positive connotation in this fast-paced age of technology. Everything is changing so quickly, you have to be one step ahead just to keep up.