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The first super moon of the decade is coming this weekend. The “Super Snow Moon” will rise in the east on the night of Saturday, February 8 and come to its highest point in the sky around midnight while reaching “peak fullness” at 2:34 a.m. ET on Sunday, February 9, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The name “Super Snow […]
It has been said time and time again—Earth is headed to hell in a hand basket. Now, a new study titled “Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019” further proves this fact by taking a look at the world’s oceans and showing just how much of an absolute disaster we have created. You know, to put it lightly. The study looks at the temperature […]
We have 10 years to save the Earth’s remaining wildlife. According to a new draft plan released by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, almost a third of the world will need to be protected by 2030 and we will need to cut pollution in half in order to save our fragile biodiversity. The plan […]
Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier made history on his third day as a NASA intern. The teen was assigned to examine the variation in the brightness of stars captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Goddard Space Flight Center. He ended up discovering a planet during the assignment. This happened last summer, but NASA only announced the achievement this week after his findings […]
A sperm whale that washed up on the shores of a Scottish island last week was discovered to have 220 pounds of trash in its stomach. As CNN reports via the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, the young whale died last week after it washed up on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides, […]
“Untold suffering” is to come by way of the increasingly-ignored-by-the-Powers-That-Be issue of climate change, thousands of scientists warned Tuesday. “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” the statement, first published in the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ journal BioScience on Tuesday, reads. “On […]
Things are not looking good. A new U.N. climate special report explains how the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets have changed and how these changes will negatively impact the world. More than 100 scientists from 36 nations cited over 6,900 studies in their dispatch, called the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing […]
Scientists revealed that the planet narrowly evaded a catastrophe after a massive asteroid barely missed Earth. Asteroid 2019 OK was speeding past Earth last week, traveling at nearly 15 miles per second, according to the Washington Post. The most surprising fact about this reveal is that scientist were unaware of the asteroid’s presence until hours […]
The death of physical video game media draws ever closer. Brick and mortar stores like GameStop are closing up. We no longer buy video game discs and cartridges, used or otherwise; we download our games to our consoles via high-speed wireless connections and curate digital libraries. Eventually, we’ll subscribe to and stream our games from […]
Arguably the most famous black hole of all time now has an apt name. Powehi is the name that’s been given to the black hole recently designated as the first to be captured in a direct image, per The Guardian. The name is derived from the 18th century sacred Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo, and is […]
