Nov 29th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Stray dogs living around the ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant are helping scientists watch evolution happen over just a few decades. Their genes show how life keeps going in a damaged landscape, echoing the famous Jurassic Park idea that life finds a way. Researchers have followed hundreds of free roaming dogs that live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone . By comparing their DNA, the team is uncovering how a major nuclear accident reshaped an entire animal community. Science fiction and survival science The work is led by Megan N. Dillon, PhD, at North Carolina State ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - While are still generating minimal revenue, they are making material technological advances, and tech luminaries, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, have given credit to the development, saying it could become very useful sooner than he had expected. Alphabet IonQ Quantum Computing Inc There are different scientific methods for making Unlike most of its pure-play quantum computing peers, IonQ has also begun to deliver material revenue. In the third quarter, its revenue jumped 222% to $39.9 million. The business is still deeply unprofitable with a generally accepted accounting principles ( ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms. When a dust devil passed over NASA's Perseverance rover in 2021, scientists expected to hear the hiss of sand and the rush of Martian wind. Instead, they caught a faint pop. They now believe this is the sound of electricity discharging in Mars's thin air. "This is like mini-lightning on Mars," said Baptiste Chide of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetary Science in Toulouse, France, lead author of the new study published in Nature . These aren't quite ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - Physicist Pan Jianwei and team simulate exotic new state of matter that has 'quantum armour' against errors and noise Reading Time: 3 minutes Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a "quantum Lego block" that refuses to fall apart – even when shaken. Using a programmable quantum processor named Zuchongzhi 2 , Pan's team has simulated an exotic new state of matter where quantum effects are locked into the corners of a material, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday. These corner states are protected by the deep laws of topology ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside another closely related species during a poorly understood time in human evolution. Based on the recent discovery ​nearby of 25 teeth and the jawbone of a 4-1/2 year-old child, scientists have determined that the eight foot bones represent the species Australopithecus deyiremeda, which ‌combined ape-like and human-like traits and was first ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - The world's top wildlife trade organisation increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win". Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) backed increased trade restrictions on species from whale sharks to manta rays at talks in Uzbekistan. Conservationists and experts have warned that shark and ray species face growing pressure from overfishing and climate change. "This is a historical win for sharks, something we were strongly hoping for," said ... [Read More]

Nov 28th, 2025 - Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, November 28 First Quarter Moon occurs at 1:59 A.M. EST. While Luna is not visible in the morning, our satellite will grace the evening sky, hanging near Saturn as the planet comes to a stationary point at 8 P.M. EST. Both are located in Aquarius, high in the south a few hours after sunset. First-magnitude Saturn is the brightest light in this region of the sky and should be readily visible to the naked eye, even with the waxing Moon nearby. The planet hangs just to the upper left of the crescent Moon.  If you've got a ... [Read More]

Nov 27th, 2025 - Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover . The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the rover, a French-led team reported Wednesday. The researchers documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years, primarily during dust storms and dust devils. Almost all occurred on the windiest Martian sols, or days, during dust storms and dust devils. Just inches in size, the electrical arcs occurred within 6 feet of the microphone perched atop the rover's ... [Read More]