Science history: ‘Patient zero’ catches SARS, the older cousin of COVID — Nov. 16, 2002
Travelers on a cable car in Hong Kong throughout the SARS epidemic. (Image credit: Christian Keenan through Getty Images) FAST FACTS Turning point: Individual contaminated with SARS Date: Nov. 16,…
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Science news this week: Powerful solar storms, exploding comets and pigs from hell
In this week’s science news we covered solar outbursts far and wide, blew up comets, hell pigs and how to safeguard yourself from a quantum computer system hack. (Image credit:…
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Science history: Chemists discover buckyballs — the most perfect molecules in existence — Nov. 14, 1985
An illustration of a bucky ball, a 60-carbon-molecule that highly looks like a geodesic dome. Researchers initially identified these extremely in proportion particles in 1985. (Image credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO…
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Science news this week: Thinking chimps and color-changing comets
In this week’s science news we covered chimps utilizing metacognition and brand-new observations that recommend comet 3I/ATLAS might be turning blue. (Image credit: Rizky Panuntun by means of Getty Images|NASA/ESA…
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Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown
President Donald Trump together with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP by means of Getty Images President Donald Trump together with Office of Management and…
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Science history: Astronomers spot first known planet around a sunlike star, raising hopes for extraterrestrial life — Nov. 1, 1995
An artist’s impression of Pegasi 51 b. (Image credit: NASA) Quick realities Turning point: Discovery of a Jupiter-size world around a far-off, sunlike star When: Nov. 1, 1995 Where: Haute-Provence…
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Science news this week: Comets light up the skies and race toward the sun, our galaxy’s mysterious glow is explained, and scientists tell us why time moves faster as we age
In this week’s science news, we reported a trio of comets, a mystical radiance at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, why time moves much faster as we age,…
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Science news this week: Revived permafrost microbes spew CO2, scientists image object ‘moving’ at 99.9% the speed of light, and James Webb telescope spots something exciting blasting from black hole M87*
In this week’s science news, we reported on the revival of greenhouse gas burping microorganisms from the permafrost, a visual fallacy that appears to break unique relativity, great void M87…
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Science news this week: Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS’s origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses
In this week’s science news, we reported on the origins of comet 3I/ATLAS, a gravity anomaly that covered the length of Africa, AI developing new infections, and the billions of…
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Science history: Edwin Hubble uncovers the vastness of the universe with discovery of ‘standard candle’ — Oct. 5, 1923
[ 19659002]A time-lapse series of the star M31-V1 altering in brightness over numerous weeks. Edwin Hubble found the star in 1923. (Image credit: Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Project; Acknowledgment:…
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