Nov 24th, 2025 - As the space station nears its end, NASA also cuts some future Starliner flights. The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, confirming Monday that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 mission, the space agency said. Launching by next April will require completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities, NASA added in a statement . "NASA and Boeing are continuing to rigorously test ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape. The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand between two lochs on the largest of the Orkney Islands, off the northeastern tip of mainland Scotland. Three colossal planks of sandstone, ranging in height from fifteen feet nine inches to eighteen feet eight inches, rise from the grass, along with a smaller stone that has the bent shape of a ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - An extinct animal's RNA reveals muscle stress in its final moments—after 39,000 years In 2010, researchers in northeastern Siberia stumbled upon a genetic goldmine: the remarkably well-preserved remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth. The animal, named Yuka , died nearly 39,000 years ago, locked in the permafrost. But Yuka had one more secret to tell. Scientists have successfully recovered and sequenced Yuka's RNA from mummified muscle tissue. Published in the journal Cell , this achievement marks the oldest RNA ever isolated. It shatters our previous assumptions about how quickly ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - Hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the Earth's magnetic field when using a magnetic map The Company of Biologists  Loggerhead turtles are able to sense the Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are born with. Now researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the Earth's magnetic map to tell them where they are on their epic migration routes. Setting off from the beach of their ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live alongside humans, providing nearly all of our food and numerous other benefits. Dogs provide protection, hunting assistance, companionship, transportation and even wool for weaving blankets . Dogs evolved from gray wolves, but scientists debate exactly where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated. Ancient DNA evidence suggests that domestication happened twice, in eastern and western ... [Read More]

Nov 23rd, 2025 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Archaeologists in Colombia have retrieved the first items from the fabled San José galleon, a wreck known as the "Holy Grail of shipwrecks" due to its sheer amount of treasure. The galleon, which sank in the Caribbean Sea in 1708 during an attack by a British fleet, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and international disputes since it was discovered in 2015. The shipwreck is believed to contain about 11 million gold and silver coins, along with emeralds and other valuable cargo. Its treasure is worth as much as $20 billion.  The San ... [Read More]

Nov 23rd, 2025 - SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Here on the Suncoast, there are two main species of sea turtles that nest on our beaches... The Loggerhead sea turtle and the Green sea turtle, which for years has been classified as endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN). However, through conservation efforts and the green sea turtles resilience, they are no longer considered endangered! Dr. Jake Lasala from Mote Marina Laboratory says, "The green sea turtle is seeing a resurgence in Sarasota that we have never seen before" However, Dr. Lasala says that locally the levels still aren't ... [Read More]

Nov 23rd, 2025 - On a bluebird day at West and East Lake in Grand Junction, Maddie Baker throws a plankton tow net into the water, and drags it back to her. "This is made of a 64 micrometer mesh, so that allows us to trap the veligers in their juvenile form, where they are microscopic and invisible to the eye," she said. Baker is an invasive species specialist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. A veliger is the larval form of many kinds of mollusks, including the invasive—and pervasive—zebra mussel. Baker doesn't have to tow the plankton net to know the mussels are here. She picks mussel after ... [Read More]