Nov 21st, 2025 - Nov. 21 (UPI) -- SpaceX 's Starship booster exploded during testing of the new Super Heavy in South Texas early Friday. The incident was captured during SpaceX's livestream around 4 a.m. CST. SpaceX has had problems during testing of the jumbo-sized rocket, and this time it appears to have blown out an entire side of the lower section, Tech Crunch reported . The booster, called V3, was an upgraded version of Super Heavy and is 232 feet tall. In Starship is 403 feet tall when fully stacked with the upper-stage of 171 feet. Booster 18 seems to have just exploded during testing at the Massey ... [Read More]

Nov 21st, 2025 - In a new study publishing November 19 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology , researchers used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to increase a fungus's production efficiency and cut its production-related environmental impact by as much as 61%-all without adding any foreign DNA. The genetically tweaked fungus tastes like meat and is easier to digest than its naturally occurring counterpart.  There is a popular demand for better and more sustainable protein for food. We successfully made a fungus not only more nutritious but also more environmentally friendly by ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after being attacked by an English fleet, authorities said Thursday. The recovery is part of a scientific investigation that the government authorized last year to study the wreckage and the causes of the sinking. Colombian researchers located the galleon in 2015, leading to legal and diplomatic disputes. Its exact location is a state secret. Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - SARASOTA, Fla. ( ) - Living on the Suncoast, you may have seen a sea turtle or two. You've definitely seen their nests marked off at the beach. This year, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium has told ABC7 that they have recorded the highest number of nests they've ever seen. Mote has been tracking sea turtle nests since the 1980s. This season has been record-breaking with a total of 5,735 nests in Sarasota County. This breaks the record set in 2024 of 4,369 nests. Dr. Jake Lasala, the Manager of Mote's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program has been working with sea turtles for over 16 ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere , a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It will mean a dramatic swing in weather for parts of the US that are currently simmering in record heat, and it could begin the week of Thanksgiving. It could also be one of the earliest significant polar vortex disruptions recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. Think of the stratospheric polar vortex like a wall of wind, corralling the ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - 2 min read Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks." The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago. At the time of its sinking, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the San José had been carrying large amounts of gold, silver and emeralds from Spanish colonies in Latin American back to the Spanish king. Collectively, those treasures ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - Nov. 20 (UPI) -- NASA released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS flying past Mars and, based on the agency's observations, scientists expressed doubt that it is an alien spaceship. Space agencies globally have shifted satellites, telescopes and myriad other sensors and tools to monitor the comet, which has beguiled space scientists and the public alike with every move it has made on its trip through the solar system. Over the last 4 1/2 months, in addition to watching the comet rocket around the sun on its journey, there has been speculation that the comet could be technological ... [Read More]

Nov 20th, 2025 - Reading time 3 minutes Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar system, a Mars-sized object dubbed Theia slammed into the Earth and created the Moon. We now have a better idea as to where this wayward object came from. In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers investigated the isotopic fingerprints —the ratio of isotopes, or versions, of elements in a material—of iron in rocks from the Moon, Earth, and meteorites (meteoroids that reach the ground). Their results bolster the theory that the impactor was born in the inner solar system and ... [Read More]