Posts published in “Science”

This year, the fall may seem less colorful, as fall foliage is affected by climate change. Due to the extreme climate of the past two years, trees are now facing physiological challenges.

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.

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”.