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For years, coral reefs all over the world have been ravaged by mass whitening events as the oceans continue to warm due to climate change. Corals have little chance of giving up these events – but a new study suggests they have an unusual method of survival: acquiring a vibrant neon color. When whitening events occur, prolonged heat spikes cause …

Trump was called to attend the launch next week by resp. Michael Waltz, a Republican from Northeast Florida whose district includes the northern tip of Cape Canaveral but not the actual launch site. In a Friday interview, Waltz said Trump was “fired” when the two men discussed the importance of the event for the development of the US space program. …

Video of a fireball made near Portland, Victoria, Australia. Gif: Mel Aldridge / Victorian Stormtroopers / Gizmodo An amazing video made last night in Australia shows what was likely a late stage of a Russian rocket, burned on re-entry, in a light show that was observed in the southeastern parts of the country. Australians living in parts of Victoria and …

CLOSE In summer, parts of Antarctica turn bright green as algae bloom on the surface of melting snow. Buzz60 Snow in Antarctica is turning green and scientists say climate change may be to blame. According to a study published in the peer-reviewed agency Nature Communications, microscopic algae bloom on the surface of the snow, slowly turning the winter, white landscape …

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon spacecraft are preparing for the historic Demo-2 mission, which will launch NASA astronauts into space from American soil for the first time since 2011. A photo released by NASA on Thursday shows the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon rockets raised vertically on the Kennedy Space Center’s 39A launch site, which is also …

Height is height, isn’t it? Look at the Manhattan skyscraper, or the Washington Monument, or a mountain peak in California, and imagine that tomorrow will be the same height as today. But in the United States, the heights of structures, landmarks, valleys, hills, and just about anything else are about to change. Most will be cut. Parts of the Pacific …

Researchers have created an embryo containing both human and mouse cells in the great advancement of genetically modified organisms. The hybrid embryo, called the human-animal chimera, was grown by a team at Buffalo State University in New York and the Roswell Park Cancer Center. The mouse embryo contains 4% human cells – a far higher proportion than has ever been …

Ever since the president Donald Trump has directed NASA to get boots on the moon by 2024, the agency and its partners are working hard to do so. Late last month, NASA awarded contracts to three lunar crew development companies, but reaching the moon is just the beginning. The agency also plans to build a permanent lunar base before the …

In the long distances of the solar system, along the orbit of Neptune, things are becoming more and more difficult and complicated. Directly depicting small objects in the darkness of the Kuiper belt – where Pluto resides – is really difficult, which makes the recent discovery even more exciting. If you know where something is, you can watch it, waiting …

Impression of the artist for a supernova. In a study published recently in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers Dr. Jade Powell and Dr. Bernhard Mueller of the ARC Center for Perfection for Gravitational Wave Detection (OzGrav) simulated three core collapses using supercomputers from across Australia, including the OzSTAR supercomputer at the University of Technology. The simulation models …