During the midday Friday prayer hours on March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault. With an epicenter close to Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, it was the most powerful earthquake to…
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NASA’s Goddard boss set to step down • The Register
Updated NASA’s Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.
NASA veteran warns Hubble faces death by a hundred cuts
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The announcement was made on the same day past and present NASA…
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In world first, CCTV captures supershear velocity earthquake
Earthquakes are violent events that alter the face of the planet. In many cases, those changes occur beneath the surface and only gradually become visible over thousands of years. Occasionally, however, an earthquake’s effects aren’t just…
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What’s That Splatter on Your Windshield?
via Rebekah McClean Kersplat … thwack … thunk … wham!
There’s nothing quite like a summer road trip and the hail-like sound of bugs hitting your windshield and leaving a streak of splatter.
The blobs are icky but they also leave identifiable…
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Europe tests largest-ever Mars parachute in the stratosphere above the Arctic (video)
A giant parachute built for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars mission has aced a drop test with a mock lander during a test campaign in the Arctic.
The double parachute system consists of a 50-foot-wide (15-meter) first-stage chute and a secondary…
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Teeth marks suggest ‘terror bird’ was killed by reptile 13 million years ago
Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News
Link et al/Biology LettersThe researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest…
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Here are the 16 states where the northern lights could be visible Tuesday night
Some people along the northern part of the United States could get a light show in the sky Tuesday night, when the view line for the northern lights dips all the way to the Oregon-Washington border.
Tuesday night, the auroras could be visible…
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First-Ever Video of Earthquake Ground Shift Continues to Astonish Scientists
A couple of months ago, PetaPixel reported on a remarkable security camera video that recorded the first-ever view of the Earth’s surface shifting along a major fault line during…
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You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic
Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to…
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First Direct Images of ‘Cosmic Web’ That May Weave Entire Universe
This image is a simulation based on groundbreaking new images captured by an international team of astronomers. The team detected the very faint glow from the gas inside cosmic filaments, shown here in white. Where these filaments… Continue Reading
