A Blue Moon is coming this weekend. Andit’s not the craft beer nor Amazon’s new spaceship, both of which have appropriated the name.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Distant object at edge of Solar System is an ancient fragment from 4.5 billion years ago
It’s a rather uninspiring object, with no moons, rings or dust clouds in orbit around it; nor is there any evidence of an atmosphere.
Paradise lost: 400 million pieces of trash discovered on beaches of remote tropical islands
We know trash is everywhere on Earth, all the way from the top of Mount Everest to the verybottom of the ocean. Now, giant mounds of it are even washing up on the shores of otherwise pristine tropical islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Neanderthals split from modern humans much earlier than thought, study suggests
A new study suggests that modern humans and our closest relatives the Neanderthals may have split at least 800,000 years ago, hundreds of thousands of yearsearlier than had been thought.
Wild weather forecast: Feet of snow in the West; severe storms in central USA, milder East
A big change in the weather is on tap for much of the U.S. over the next few days.
The northern lights, aka ‘aurora borealis,’ could be coming to a sky near you this week
Thanks to a geomagnetic storm from the sun, skywatchers across the far northern U.S. and most of Canada this week could see the aurora borealis, aka the northern lights.
Deepest dump? American explorer spots plastic garbage in world’s deepest ocean
We know Mount Everest is littered with tons of trash. Now we know garbage has also been spotted at the world’s deepest ocean depth.
The moon is shrinking and quaking. Is this something to worry about?
Scientists Monday gave us the unsettling news that our favorite natural satellite, the moon, is shrinking, according to a study.
Alive before Jesus’ birth, a 2600-year-old tree in North Carolina is one of USA’s oldest
While wars and storms roar around it, the tree has been alive for over 2,600 years, quietly growing along the banks of a river southeast of Raleigh.
Worldwide rise in obesity driven by country dwellers, study finds
Country folks have driven the recent global rise in obesity, a study says.This contradicts the thinking that links being overweight with urban living.