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New maps show high-risk zones for whale-ship collisions − vessel speed limits and rerouting can reduce the toll

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems with fish, kelp forests, seagrass beds and other undersea life, but also vibrates with noise from ship traffic. Suddenly, the…

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A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback – and now scientists know what caused it

Earlier this year, a caver was poring over satellite images of the Nullarbor Plain when he came across something unexpected: an enormous, mysterious scar etched into the barren landscape.

The Conversation

NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon

NASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.

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65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal 'glue factory,' study finds

Neanderthals may have used specialized hearths to make tar around 65,000 years ago, a new study finds.

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Students' 'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther into space than any other amateur spacecraft — smashing 20-year records

Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached more than 470,000 feet above Earth's surface and went "hypersonic."

LiveScience

Helldivers 2 takes home the prize for Best Multiplayer Game at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

Super Earth will be thrilled

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Helldivers 2 creative director once said transmog "doesn't make sense" for the shooter, but has now confirmed Arrowhead is "looking into" armor color customization

This could be huge for Super Earth's most fashion-conscious soldiers

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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from Florida, its 7th liftoff in a week (video)

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (Nov. 21).

Space

What's next for SpaceX's Starship after its successful 6th test flight?

SpaceX's Starship megarocket performed well on its sixth test flight, which occurred on Tuesday (Nov. 19). So, what's next for the giant reusable vehicle?

Space

'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels

NASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay.

LiveScience

Coral reefs being pushed to extinction

Coral reefs have experienced four mass bleaching event in 18 months, with no sign of stopping

Salon

NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones

The Curiosity shows sulfur stones, with no explanation of how they occurred on the Martian surface.

Space

Russian Soyuz rocket launches supplies to ISS on 90th Progress cargo spacecraft (video)

Liftoff occurred at 7:22 a.m. EST. (1222 GMT).

Space

13 Years Later, The Most Iconic Sci-Fi Horror Franchise is Going in a Bold New Direction

Here's why 'Alien: Earth' will be such a huge departure for the 'Alien' franchise. But also why its timeline is so interesting.

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This spot will be key to the inevitable collapse of a key Atlantic current

New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to shifts in the Irminger Sea from increasing Arctic meltwater.

LiveScience

China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal.

The Independent UK

Freshwater supplies are ‘abruptly’ depleting across the globe, NASA warns

Billions of people around the world rely on freshwater resources that have been dwindling in recent years

The Conversation

Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory.

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The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility in China has a machine that spins so fast it generates 1,900x the Earth's gravity

That's not the kind of GeForce I ordered…

Space

ISS fires thrusters to dodge hunk of space junk

A Russian cargo ship docked to the International Space Station fired its thrusters on Tuesday (Nov. 19) to ensure that the orbiting complex dodged a piece of space debris.

LiveScience

Lucy's last day: What the iconic fossil reveals about our ancient ancestor's last hours

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

The Independent UK

Here’s how to catch one of the best meteor showers of the year

The Geminid meteor shower started Tuesday night

The Conversation

Cop29: How fast is Earth warming?

In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity’s interference with the climate.

MusicRadar

“It's equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth”: Shazam exceeds 100 billion song recognitions

“It's equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth”

Space

Scientists find extremely young exoplanet orbiting star with a wonky disk

NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting spacecraft found the youngest transiting world yet, and the exoplanet's star has a wonky planetary disk.

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