First discovered in 1789, Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, a sizable distinction for a planet that has sixty-two known moons of which only fifty-three are officially named. Previous data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2005 showed “eruptions of water geysers” at the surface of Enceladus suggesting that the moon might have water beneath […]
“Three Blind Mice” is an English nursery rhyme in which mice in their blindness run after a farmer’s wife who proceeds to cut off their tails. But as Sarah C.P. Williams writes in Science Magazine, recent research from scientists at the University of Tokyo might enable blind mice to never need to ask for directions […]
Pope Francis has not been one to mince words or refrain from sharing his thoughts. In December, he accused the Curia (the senior governing group of the Vatican consisting of cardinals, bishops and priests) of suffering from “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and of “existential schizophrenia” though he did say that such problems pose a danger to all […]
People who live in Turkey are confused about daylight saving. Usually the country “falls back” like many others in the Eastern European time zone (EET) on the last Sunday of October. The country planned to change its clocks on Sunday, Oct. 25, but the Turkish government decided to postpone the changing of the clocks until […]
NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive, SMAP, is a mission of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). SMAP launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on January 31, 2015. SMAP is an orbiting observatory that measures moisture in the top 5cm of soil everywhere on the Earth’s surface. It uses active and passive instruments to measure […]
Initially believed to be just a regional water body on the South Pole of Enceladus, the source of fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and organic molecules is in fact a major ocean covering the entire moon, a new study has suggested. Studying the tiny wobbles of Saturn’s moon, researchers at Cornell University and […]
An anniversary is usually a cause for celebration. Gifts are exchanged. Happiness is spread. Memories are shared. The U.S. Department of the Interior has a different idea about how it will mark the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Today, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell released a report calling attention to the infrastructure […]
You can probably guess with a good degree of certainty just which creatures were wiped out during the last mass extinction on Earth. That’s right: the dinosaurs. Well, to be more accurate, it was the non-avian dinosaurs that were wiped out. That happened about 65 million years ago and it appears as if our planet […]
If you wear contacts, you may be far more familiar than you’d like to be when it comes to eye infections and the costs associated with them. Even if you have been able to avoid such nuisances, according to a new study, it’s likely that your contact lenses are jeopardizing the health of your eyes. […]
