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Climate activists walked out of classrooms and workplaces in more than 150 countries on Friday, Sept. 20 to demand stronger action on climate change. Mass mobilizations like this have become increasingly common in recent years. I'm a scholar of enviro...

Students around the world were on the march, calling on global leaders to take meaningful action to curb human activity driving catastrophic climate change....

It seems that comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko is not the stoic, unchanging Solar System traveller that it might seem to be. Scientists working through the vast warehouse of images from the Rosetta spacecraft have discovered there's lots going on on 67P...

The future of space situational awareness will increasingly rely on governments and companies sharing data that can be used to improve knowledge of space objects and create more accurate warnings of close approaches. SpaceNews.com...

Photographer Edward Burtynsky explains his 40-year quest for striking images of our impact on the planet....

But nobody said it was supposed to be easy....

Atmospheric scientists reveal details of the connection between a larger atmospheric phenomenon, termed the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the daily patterns of rainfall in the Maritime Continent....

Researchers describe a new use of leukemia drug, nilotinib, to treat a subtype of medulloblastoma, a deadly pediatric brain cancer....

The launch of a Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for Sept. 23 after a launch pad fire scrubbed the original launch attempt earlier this month. SpaceNews.com...

JAXA recently released photos of their Hayabusa2 mission deploying target markers to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The post Hayabusa 2 has one Last Lander it's Going to Throw at Ryugu appeared first on Universe Today ....

Around the globe, communities are concerned with rain and storms. An area known as the "Maritime Continent," which includes major islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, along with a galaxy of smaller islands, experiences signific...

If you wander outside on these late summer nights, you might hear the din of calling songs from field crickets. Male crickets produce these songs to attract their mates—but they may also draw the attention of acoustically orienting parasitiod flies....

The secret military base's history reveals its enduring appeal and what might be lurking inside. Spoiler: It's not aliens....

The Dolmen of Guadalperal is considered the 'Spanish Stonehenge,' and usually sits at the bottom of a manmade lake. Now, following devastating droughts, the monument is on view for the first time in 50 years....

Radar evidence shows that geysers on Enceladus are ejecting water that turns to snow. The snow not only falls back on Enceladus' surface, but also makes its way to its neighboring moons, Mimas and Tethys, making them more reflective. Researchers are c...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler about the administration's plans to revoke California's authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards....

Astronomers have made steady progress towards finding and probing planets located in the habitable zone of their stars, where conditions can lead to the formation of liquid water and the proliferation of life....

Robots can drive on the plains and craters of Mars, but what if we could explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond? Designed by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a four-...

The man was stunned to find out that a swollen lump on his foot was actually a sign of leukemia....

Indian scientists haven't heard from the Vikram lander for a full lunar day, after they lost contact during the robotic spacecraft's descent....

A novel vaccine protected almost all mice and guinea pigs exposed to a new herpes virus. This may lead to the vaccine being tested in human studies....

Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of the syrup season. With climate change, daily temperatures are on the rise, which affects sap flow and sugar content. By 2100,...

Scientists pieced together the ancient origins of mysterious masses of rock found deep underground....

Millions of people join a global environmental strike led by schoolchildren....

Startling discovery could open up avenues for treating some aggressive tumors...

Elon Musk just released new images that showcase the progress being made on the Starship prototypes The post Musk Shares the Latest Progress on the Starship Prototypes appeared first on Universe Today ....

A bird's-eye view highlights the diverse landscapes of this Southeast Asian country....

Popping a bottle of bubbly releases a plume of dry ice that bears a visible type of shock wave called a Mach disk....

Hopes for a genital herpes vaccine have been raised by a trial treatment that stops genital lesions and low-lying infections in guinea pigs and mice...

Europe's space mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy reaches a key milestone....

Climate change and over-tapped waterways could leave developing parts of Asia without enough water to cool power plants in the near future, new research indicates....

Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more....

Global warming is already taking a higher toll than researchers projected, a new study says...

Because tires are made of natural rubber and plastic, it's easy to miss just how much they contribute to pollution in our oceans....

Physicists and chemists have jointly succeeded in developing a so-called nano-tomographic technique which is able to detect the typically invisible properties of nano-structured fields in the focus of a lens. Such a method may help to establish nano-struc...

Feature describes improved model for forecasting the crucial balance of pressure at the edge of a fusion plasma....

UNC researchers have created an injectable multi-drug delivery system that is removable, biodegradable and effective for up to a year in some cases. The author says the ability to administer multiple drugs with this implant is an important advancement in ...

Anthropologist contributed a large, multi-institutional study explaining how the human-influenced mass extinction of giant carnivores and herbivores of North America fundamentally changed the biodiversity and landscape of the continent....

The rare and deadly genetic liver disorder, GSD type Ia, affects children from infancy through adulthood, causing dangerously low blood sugar levels and constant dependence on glucose consumption in the form of cornstarch every few hours for survival. If ...

Climate change and over-tapped waterways could leave developing parts of Asia without enough water to cool power plants in the near future, new research indicates. The study found that existing and planned power plants that burn coal for energy could be v...

Since "2001: A Space Odyssey," people have wondered: could machines like HAL 9000 eventually exist that can process information with human-like intelligence? Researchers say that true, human-level intelligence remains a long way off, but a new art...

Rosalind Franklin may explore this crater on the Red Planet....

A key requirement for future facilities that aim to capture and control on Earth the fusion energy that drives the sun and stars is accurate predictions of the pressure of the plasma—the hot, charged gas that fuels fusion reactions inside doughnut-s...

A zombie takeover is science fiction, right? Well, it turns out some zombies already exist in nature and "life" after brain death might not be so far-fetched...

In over 200 nations, children are calling for adults to take action and stop ruining the planet's future....