Halloween is the time of spooky skeletons. Whether it be Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas or the 10-foot inflatable skeleton sold at Walmart, skeletons are the rulers of Halloween.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has surpassed the Hubble Space Telescope in power and precision, and has allowed astronomers to finally gain some insight into where and how the first galaxies were created.
While Earth is the only known planet to have any kind of life, other objects in and out of our solar system have potentially shown signs of habitability.
Kenya has recently found a new source of renewable geothermal energy: hydrothermal vents. With the African tectonic plate splitting in two under the town of Naivasha, a cleave bursting with geothermal energy was formed.
When thinking about going to the beach most people’s concerns center around drowning or sharks, but unfortunately, due to global warming, there is the new and increasingly prominent threat of bacterial infection.
Current models for how climate change will affect the Earth are bleak, at best. Most studies predict more frequent hot days, rising sea levels, more acidic oceans, less snowfall, and heavier rainfall at certain parts of the year with droughts in others.
On Sunday, September 22, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely deployed a capsule containing samples from an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA live stream commented that this historic event is like “opening a time capsule to our ancient solar system”.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has recently opened up what many believe is “New York’s most exciting building.” The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation makes over 30 connections across 10 of the Museum’s buildings in order to make a more seamless experience for visitors.
Placozoans might just have the blueprint for our nervous system. A team of researchers have made this riveting discovery in which they found that neuron-like cells exist within these creatures and those cells could be the basis for the neuron cells that make up the nervous systems of more complex beings such as humans today.
With the first signs of fall starting to appear as we move into October, we leave behind the remnants of one of the hottest summers on record.