At a Glance Between 2010 and 2016, the warming Southern Ocean has melted 565 square miles of underwater ice. That’s as much as 10 percent of the continent’s eight largest glaciers. The findings are disturbing because should the ice recession continue, there could be a total collapse of the world’s largest ice sheet. Antarctica’s underwater footprint is […]

Hauling nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shot into orbit Monday from Cape Canaveral, with a previously-flown Dragon cargo carrier riding a reused first stage booster to kick off a nearly two-day journey to the International Space Station. The commercial cargo delivery flight departed Cape Canaveral with a […]

Eden Zang, managing director of Oceanwide Science Institute, will be at the Maui Nui Resource Council meeting Wednesday to explain how passive acoustic monitoring can be utilized to reveal clues about coral reef communities. The meeting, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Pacific Whale Foundation’s Discovery Center classrooms at the ocean level of the Maui Harbor […]

Thousands of mourners and well-wishers lined the streets of Cambridge Saturday morning for the funeral of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. The ceremony was held at the University Church of St. Mary the Great near Gonville and Caius College, which boasts a building named for the iconic British professor. Eddie Redmayne, who nabbed an Oscar for […]

Blue moons, strawberry moons, supermoons. For some reason your news aggregation algorithm of choice thinks you really really really want to know all about these moons. “Catch This Weekend’s AMAZING SUPERMOON,” one headline (or, like, 500 of them) will announce. “The Supermoon Isn’t Actually A Big Deal And You’re All Ruining Astronomy,” another will grouse. On March 31—that’s […]

Astrologically speaking, there has been a lot going on this March. There are not one, but two full moons, meaning we’re going to see a Blue Moon. Mercury retrograde began on Mar. 22, and Jupiter retrograde has also been going on since early Mar. 2018. And now you can add one more thing to the list: a blue moon […]

Scientists have discovered 13,000-year-old footprints of a two adults and a child off the Pacific coast of Canada, suggesting that humans used a coastal route to move from Asia to North America during the last ice age. Previous research suggests that, during the last ice age (which ended around 11,700 years ago), humans moved into the Americas from Asia across what was then a land […]

The settlement looked like little more than 11 mounds of earth surrounded by a sunken ditch. But if Jonas Gregorio de Souza closed his eyes, he could imagine the Boa Vista site as it would have appeared 800 years ago. Perhaps, the archaeologist said, those mounds were houses circling a central square. Outside the defensive […]

In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species survives or dies out locally. One possible consequence according to the researchers, is that although conservation initiatives can save endangered species, sometimes chance can override such efforts. Species that differ considerably in their ecology rarely […]

Though competent, we all live the life of dependence in one way or the other. We, the able-bodied, cannot do everything on our own; rather, we have to rely on others. If we say, we all are disabled (unable) without disabilities, it will not be wrong. However, when a person declared as disabled by physicians […]