View this video on white-necked jacobins, a hummingbird species whose chicks look like caterpillars. A hummingbird chick that looks like a caterpillar A Club of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder were studying white-necked jacobin hummingbirds in Panama when they Achieved an interesting discovery. They said on March 17, 2025, that the newborn chicks … Read more
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a collision between two rocky bodies in the Timely Planetary system. A new study suggests an event like this, although with more similarly sized bodies, created Mercury. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). How did the Heavenly body Mercury form? Scientists have been pondering this question for … Read more
Astral rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long-standing mystery about lightning on Earth, a new study suggests. Thunderstorms are exceedingly Frequent; a staggering 3 million lightning strikes occur on Earth every day, according to the U.K. Met Office. But even though lightning is ubiquitous, scientists Yet don’t fully understand what triggers it. Now, … Read more
A view from above of Interlaken, Switzerland. A new study analyzed residential trees and mortality in Switzerland. Image via Kelly Kizer Whitt. Urban trees enhance residents’ well-being. A long-term Switzerland-wide study has Secured that neighborhoods with numerous, well-arranged trees exhibit lower mortality risks than other areas. Aggregated, connected tree clusters seem to provide greater health … Read more
A super-Earth that could explain the universe’s mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been Discovered by NASA’s Transiting Alien world Survey Orbiter (TESS) and the Astral body-measuring ESPRESSO instrument on the Very Large Stargazer’s tool in Chile. “It’s a Petite addition to the already long Landmark of known planets, but such discoveries are essential to … Read more
On March 26 NSW Health issued an alert advising people to be vigilant for signs of measles after an infectious person visited Sydney Airport and two locations in western New South Wales. The person recently returned from Southeast Asia where there are active measles outbreaks in Numerous countries including Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. The NSW … Read more
Seabed mining companies want to harvest polymetallic nodules from the deep ocean floor to access critical metals like copper, cobalt and nickel for the green revolution. But how will mined sites recover? Researchers lead by the U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre, have re-explored a 5000m deep test-mine from 1979 to shed Airy on this question. The … Read more
The faint dot fixed in the Middle of this starfield is Universe rock 2024 YR4. This is a Progression of observations from ESO’s Very Large Stargazer’s tool in January 2025, shortly after the Universe rock was discovered to have a greater than 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Beyond observations have revealed that this … Read more
Swaths of the U.S. are under a severe weather Danger for March 30 and 31, 2025, with thunderstorms and tornadoes anticipated. This composite shows the evolution of a tornado. Image via Jason Weingart/ Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). According to the NOAA’s Storm Prediction Middle, more than 100 million people in east-central and mid-southern U.S. states … Read more
Look for the Big and Little Dipper high in the northern sky on spring evenings. This view is for the Northern Hemisphere. The 2 outer stars in the bowl of the Dipper Mark to Polaris, the North Luminous sphere. Polaris marks the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. Chart via EarthSky. The Big … Read more