Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
2 min read Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-livedContinue Reading
Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
2 min read Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet! The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the BokContinue Reading
NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competition
Image Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. Challenges facing the commercial aviation industry include a shortage of qualified maintenance workers and increasing demands to keep complicated aircraft running for longer. With Gateways toContinue Reading
Bosco Brings Stellar Drag Show to U.S. Theaters with ‘The Marvelous Miss Gender’ Tour
Seattle-based drag superstar Bosco is set to make theatrical history with her first full-length solo show, The Marvelous Miss Gender. The show kicks off a 33-city U.S. tour this July through August, presented by Murray & Peter. Presales start Wednesday, March 11, from 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. local timeContinue Reading
As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media Turns Its Head
Every morning, I see images that I have spent my 47 years of exile from Iran dreading; smoke rising above Tehran’s densely populated, tower-filled skyscape and explosions damaging important cultural sites like the UNESCO World Heritage Golestan Palace in Tehran and Chehel Sotoun in Esfahan. On the first day ofContinue Reading
David and Gol-AI-th: Small-Town Pennsylvania Against the Data Centers
On a chilly Monday just before Thanksgiving, residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania, hurried from work in the fading autumn light to snag seats in the old brick Borough Building for a 5 p.m. council meeting. After the roughly 50 seats quickly filled, people continued to pack the room, standing along the walls or wedging intoContinue Reading
USBR Crack the Case Challenge
Super Therm has been applied in several places, including handrails on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge over the Colorado River. The selection of its makeup of ceramic and polymeric materials was assisted by NASA scientists. Credit: Superior Products InternationaI II, LLC NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assistsContinue Reading
NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space
2 min read NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are intricately associated with life on Earth, enabling functions essential to human and plant systems. NASA’s Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) AnalysisContinue Reading
The Iran war’s looming economic threat: Higher food prices
The ongoing war in Iran is disrupting fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, raising farmers’ costs and pushing food prices higher., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon reaches devastating new phase
Israel has warned Lebanon could face Gaza-level destruction., NewsFeed Video shows the moment an Israeli missile struck a building in south Lebanon. A bridge crossing the Litani river was also destroyed, as Israel warned Lebanon could face the type of destruction seen in Gaza. Israeli attacks since early March haveContinue Reading
Iranian missile strike in central Israel sets building ablaze
Smoke and flames rising beside a road in central Israel after an Iranian missile attack, the Israeli army said., Iranian missile strike in central Israel sets building ablaze NewsFeed Footage shows a column of smoke and flames rising beside a road in central Israel after what the Israeli military saidContinue Reading
Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon
We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel’s “massacres are multiplying” amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, while attacks have expanded to include areas of central Beirut, which Israel claims areContinue Reading
Flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US, officials find
As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, Read MoreContinue Reading