Global Scientist Day : June 2025

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Pasteurization food heating foods to kill harmful bacteria. Unpasteurize...

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Newly identified planet is a rare 'miniature Saturn' orbiting a red dwarf

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Prehistoric horror: 99-million-year-old ‘zombie’ fungus found bursting f...

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Northern Lights Alert: Aurora Borealis in 14 US States Tonight!

Monday, June 23, 2025

Earth might get kicked out of the solar system; scientists sound the alarm

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Deep-Sea Fish Devoured Alive by Terrifying Parasites at 500 Meters Benea...

Friday, June 20, 2025

NASA Study Reveals Correlation Between Earth’s Magnetic Field and Atmosp...

Thursday, June 19, 2025

World's most powerful telescope is about to drop its first pictures. How...

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Giant Viruses Capable Of Destroying Marine Life Discovered In Depths Of ...

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Ocean worlds beyond Earth: NASA’s hunt for life through water

Water is essential to life as we know it, and wherever liquid water exists on Earth, life seems to thrive — from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to subglacial lakes in Antarctica. This fundamental connection between water and life is what drives NASA’s search for extraterrestrial life. Surprisingly, some of the most promising places to find life in our solar system are not dry, rocky planets, but icy moons with hidden oceans beneath their surfaces — the so-called "ocean worlds."

Why Water Matters

Liquid water acts as a solvent, allowing complex chemistry to occur. In Earth’s oceans, life persists in the darkest, most extreme environments — without sunlight, but with heat and nutrients from hydrothermal vents. Similar environments may exist in ocean worlds, especially if their oceans are in contact with a rocky seafloor that could provide energy sources through chemical reactions.

The Search for Life

NASA is not just searching for water, but for the conditions that make life possible: energy sources, organic molecules, and stable environments. Instruments onboard these missions are designed to detect chemical signs of life — such as amino acids, fatty acids, or biosignature gases.

The Bigger Picture

Studying ocean worlds helps us understand how life might emerge elsewhere in the universe. If life can exist beneath the ice of a distant moon, it may be far more common across the cosmos than previously thought. These discoveries also inform the design of future interstellar missions and expand humanity’s perspective on where — and how — life can exist.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Saudi skies witness rare ‘Strawberry Moon’ for the first time in 18 years

Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Northern Borders Region witnessed a rare celestial spectacle on Wednesday evening, June 11, with the rise of the full moon of Dhul- Hijjah , commonly referred to as the Strawberry Moon. This marks the final full moon of the year 1446 AH, rising from the furthest point on the south-eastern horizon. This phenomenon occurs only once every 18.6 years, with the next occurrence expected in 2043. Astronomical specialists explain that this event is linked to the Moon’s extreme southern declination, part of the Metonic Cycle, which lasts approximately 19 years, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. Upon rising, the Moon displayed a golden-pink hue due to atmospheric effects, earning it the name “Strawberry Moon,” a term used in some cultures to signify the last full moon of spring. The Northern Borders Region has become a favoured location for observing astronomical phenomena, thanks to its expansive horizons and minimal light pollution, which enhance visibility of the night sky. In a stunning photo taken in Dubai, the Strawberry Moon appears sparkling and bright between the towers that dot the city’s skyline.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Matching 240 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Found on Both Sides of...

Fascinating discovery spanning millions of years has emerged as researchers have uncovered more than 260 matching dinosaur tracks on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This revelation not only sheds light on ancient migration paths but also offers critical insights into the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. The tracks, preserved in what is now northern Cameroon and northeastern Brazil, have provided scientists with remarkable evidence of an ancient connection between Africa and South America. This discovery was detailed in a study led by paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs and his team, published by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. The Dinosaur Dispersal Corridor: Connecting Two Continents The study of dinosaur footprints found in the Koum Basin of Cameroon and the Borborema region of Brazil has opened a new chapter in paleontological research. These two sites, located over 3,700 miles apart, are preserved snapshots of a time when Africa and South America were still part of the same landmass. This early Cretaceous landscape, which existed about 120 million years ago, was a lush and vibrant environment where large plant-eating dinosaurs and their predators roamed freely across expansive river valleys and wetlands. Geologists have identified these areas as part of a once-continuous corridor, called the Dinosaur Dispersal Corridor, through which dinosaurs migrated between the continents. This corridor, formed by river valleys, allowed species to move easily between the lands now separated by vast oceans. The evidence found in both regions – including the remarkably preserved tracks and surrounding sediments – suggests that dinosaurs traversed this bridge just before it was engulfed by the rising South Atlantic Ocean.

Monday, June 9, 2025

SpaceX Double Launch Weekend: Starlink and SiriusXM Missions Light Up U.S. Skies

Rocket Launch — SpaceX is once again dominating the spaceflight scene this weekend with two major Falcon 9 rocket launches — one from the West Coast of California and another from Florida’s Space Coast. Both missions successfully lifted off as part of the company’s ongoing expansion of satellite-based internet services and commercial satellite delivery operations. Early Sunday morning, Southern California skywatchers had the chance to witness a spectacular launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 26 new Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The launch window opened at 6:34 a.m. PT from Launch Complex 4E, and despite the possibility of weather delays, the mission proceeded as scheduled. The reusable Falcon 9 booster landed smoothly on SpaceX’s Pacific drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, stationed in the ocean for recovery. Residents in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties reported hearing sonic booms, a signature reminder of SpaceX’s high-speed reentry technology. This mission further builds on SpaceX’s efforts to expand Starlink, which now boasts over 6,700 active satellites, providing low-latency, high-speed internet access across the globe.

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon's far north

The encore comes two years after the company’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing , giving rise to the name Resilience for its successor lander. Resilience holds a rover with a shovel to gather lunar dirt as well as a Swedish artist’s toy-size red house that will be lowered onto the moon’s dusty surface. Long the province of governments, the moon became a target of private outfits in 2019, with more flops than wins along the way. Launched in January from Florida on a long, roundabout journey, Resilience entered lunar orbit last month. It shared a SpaceX ride with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, which reached the moon faster and became the first private entity to successfully land there in March. Another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly. But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon’s south pole and was declared dead within hours. Resilience is targeting the top of the moon, a less forbidding place than the shadowy bottom. The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s northern tier. Once settled with power and communication flowing, the 7.5-foot (2.3-meter) Resilience will lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface. Made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic with four wheels, ispace’s European-built rover — named Tenacious — sports a high-definition camera to scout out the area and a shovel to scoop up some lunar dirt for NASA.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The world’s smallest violin is thinner than a human hair

The phrase “the world’s smallest violin” is dripping with sarcasm and reserved for disdain, but for some researchers it’s a mark of pride. Thanks to the latest nanotechnology tools, a team at the United Kingdom’s Loughborough University recently crafted what is literally the world’s smallest violin. At only 35 micrometers long and 13 micrometers wide, the “instrument” is thinner than a human hair and makes tardigrades look imposing by comparison. Don’t expect to hear any scaled down sonatas, however. In this case, engineers designed a nanoscale image of a violin instead of a playable instrument. Regardless, the milestone wasn’t intended as a stunt—it’s helping experts push the boundaries for future generations of electronics and computer chips. “Our nanolithography system allows us to design experiments that probe materials in different ways—using light, magnetism, or electricity—and observe their responses,” experimental physics professor Kelly Morrison said in a recent university profile. “Once we understand how materials behave, we can start applying that knowledge to develop new technologies, whether it’s improving computing efficiency or finding new ways to harvest energy.”

Scientists determine that major Earth systems are on the verge of total collapse

Heat records fall so often now that most people barely look up from their phones when the news flashes across the screen. Yet every fraction of a degree matters, because hidden in that extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for all life on our planet. Push them too far and enormous ice sheets, ocean currents, and forests may snap into a new state – one that pulls polar bears, fishers, and farmers down a road none of them chose. Scientists call those switches “tipping points.” Cross one and the change races ahead on its own. Glaciers speed up, rainforests dry out, and deep-sea conveyors stall. The concern is no longer for some distant era. The time is now, as global temperature average already exceeded the 1.5 °C line in 2024 – the line that years of diplomacy drew in the sand has already been crossed. The World Meteorological Organization now expects the planet to spend its second full year above 1.5 °C of warming in 2025, turning a once-distant red line into an imminent test of global resolve. That prospect has moved tipping points from academic debate to kitchen-table worry, sparking renewed interest in what overshooting the Paris Agreement limit would actually mean. That grim arithmetic sits at the heart of a new study led by scientists from multiple organizations. The team linked four equations – one for each of the giants mentioned earlier – so they could watch how Earth systems lean on one another as temperatures swing.

Monday, June 30, 2025