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[ad_1] A taurid fireball captured in 2015. P. Spurny / Czech Academy of Sciences One of the most explosive meteor showers year is active and will soon reach the peak of activity – good news if you like to see fire in the sky. The South Tauris and North Tauris …

[ad_1] Depending on where you live, you may have seen the skies light up with fireworks over the weekend. But this week we will see a different kind of (non-political) light show: the Northern Taurid meteor shower. While it technically started in October, the shower will peak this week, particularly …

[ad_1] A two-million-year-old skull is the best evidence yet of a human ancestor evolving as it adapts to a changing climate November 10, 2020 – 8:17 pm It was Father’s Day in 2018 when a student helping to dig a quarry in the cradle of humanity unearthed what has since …

[ad_1] University of Hawaiʻi Aerial image of subsidence and crevasses on the Vatnajókull ice sheet on the western Skaftákatlar subglacial lake. (Photo credit: Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office) A long-standing mystery involving floods or “jökulhlaup” emerging suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps was fortuitously solved by a …

[ad_1] The great glider is a marsupial the size of a skunk, endemic to the country (i.e. it is characteristic of Australia). Scientists have long suspected that its species, classified as Petauroides volans, was not one of them. Bingo: Researchers from three universities in the country have found that, instead …

[ad_1] The UAE’s first Mars mission will reach the Red Planet on February 9, 2021, Emirati government officials said on Sunday (November 8). The mission’s Hope orbiter is expected to arrive on Mars in the same year as the country’s 50th anniversary, UAE officials said in a statement shortly after …

[ad_1] Major gliders of the northern (top left), central (bottom left) and southern (right) groups identified by DArTseq showing morphological differences typical of our dataset. Major gliders of the type shown on the right have several pelage color morphs including white and light gray. Photo by Denise McGregor (top left) …

[ad_1] Illustration: Jim Cooke Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that, according to almost all models of the universe, must exist. But we have never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their …

[ad_1] Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that, according to almost all models of the universe, must exist. But we have never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their subjects in a …

[ad_1] The first mission of the United Arab Emirates in Mars it will reach the Red Planet on February 9, 2021, Emirati government officials said on Sunday (November 8). The mission Hope orbiter is expected to arrive on Mars in the same year as the country’s 50th anniversary, UAE officials …