SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth - WIRED
The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.
Wired
Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships - Phys.org
Two organisms inhabiting a common environment can sometimes mutually influence each other, either benefiting or, in some cases, damaging one another. This mutually beneficial or ambivalent biological relationship is known as symbiosis.
Phys.Org
Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected - Gizmodo
Astronomers found evidence that solar storms and dust storms magnify heat synergistically on Mars, by as much as 90 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
Gizmodo.com
Can A Monkey Have A Pet? - Defector
In the spring of 2004, researchers monitoring a population of wild bearded capuchins in a Brazilian woodland saw an infant clinging to Chiquinha, one of the adult female monkeys. The baby was not a capuchin but a marmoset—a much smaller monkey species. The re…
Defector.com
Why reaction-time training should be part of your exercise routine as you get older - KSL.com
Reaction time's decline can impact everything — including whether you catch yourself before a fall and how sharply your brain processes the world around you.
KSL.com
Northern Lights Forecast Tonight: Up To 9 States Could See The Aurora Borealis - Forbes
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts mild auroral activity Friday night that is expected to strengthen Saturday.
Forbes
My In-Laws Love Spoiling My Kids. But Their Latest Splurge Went Way Too Far. - Slate
What were they thinking?
Slate Magazine
Boeing Claims Its Beleaguered Starliner Spacecraft Is Pretty Much Good to Go - Gizmodo
The company is working with NASA to agree on an upcoming launch date for a cargo mission.
Gizmodo.com
We thought a small town outside the suburbs would be perfect for our family — but ended up in a walkable city instead - Business Insider
We thought we'd move to an exurb, or a semi-rural town outside the suburbs of St. Louis. I'm glad we moved to a walkable part of the city instead.
Business Insider
A rocky exoplanet may be a formidable candidate for extraterrestrial life - CNN
Scientists say exoplanet LHS 1140b shows promising signs that it could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for life.
CNN
New photonic platform offers a four-lane highway for light - Phys.org
Topological photonics can force propagating light to travel in a single direction—allowing researchers to route optical signals around corners and past defects without any of it scattering backward. So far, however, this one-way flow has only been found at th…
Phys.Org
Groundbreaking discovery could remake California's avocado breeding - SFGATE
Even as a fixture in California cuisine and a sizable industry for the state's farmers, avocados have presented an ongoing mystery for scientists.
SFGate
Long-duration M1.9 flare produces Earth-directed CME, G1-G2 geomagnetic storm conditions forecast for August 2 - The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
A long-duration M1.9 flare from Active Region 4492 coincided with a filament eruption near N20W67, producing an eruptive sequence associated with an Earth-directed partial-halo CME and an S1 – Minor…
Watchers.news
The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi - Gizmodo
Scientists have discovered an almost entirely hidden world of living organisms hundreds of feet below Earth's surface.
Gizmodo.com
Coral Reefs Presumed Dead Have Been Found Teeming With Life - ScienceAlert
There's nobody who wants to hear some good news about coral reefs more than me.
ScienceAlert
Astronomers finally measure the full size of the largest known galaxy - Phys.org
Researchers have obtained the deepest images ever taken of IC 1101, allowing them to identify the galaxy's outer edge for the first time. The observations confirm it as the largest known galaxy, spanning roughly 520 kiloparsecs, or about 1.7 million light-yea…
Phys.Org
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness - BBC Wildlife Magazine
These striped critters have been on the planet long before the time of the dinosaurs.
Discoverwildlife.com
The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Never Seen on Earth From Vaporized Buildings and Metal - ZME Science
A microscopic grain preserved an atomic structure created inside Hiroshima’s fireball.
ZME Science
Blue Origin Blew Up Its Launch Pad, So NASA Will Invite Its Rockets Over For Testing - Jalopnik
If America is to continue its role as a leader outside our home, it will need to find whole-of-society methods to navigate setbacks. This is a good start.
Jalopnik
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins - Sci.News
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Sci.news
The Large Hadron Collider May Already Have Detected Hints of Dark Matter - Yahoo
Hear us out...
ScienceAlert
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods - Sci.News
Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle -- a tubular extension of the mantle found in shelled cephalopods -- pushing back the fossil record of this key evolutionary feature to the Early Cambrian, roughly 520 mil…
Sci.news
Curiosity Photographs a ‘Sea of Polygons’ on Mars - PetaPixel
'We’ve seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity’s eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away.'
PetaPixel
Physicists link the Riemann Hypothesis to phase transitions in quantum systems - Phys.org
A new study in Nature Communications has established a link between the Riemann Hypothesis and dynamical phase transitions in engineered quantum systems, demonstrating the effect on a quantum processor.
Phys.Org
