A recent proposed update to the Canada's Criminal Code will extend the Mounties' jurisdiction to the moon. As CBC reports: In the Budget Implementation Act, under the subhead Lunar Gateway Canadia… [+1747 chars]
Welcome to our weekly recap of our Planetary Picture of the Day (PPOD)!Mars, more Mars, planet line up and a map of the Milky Way! Monday, April 25, 2022 Credit: Pablo Carlos BudassiFull size here:… [+1898 chars]
SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut mission will get to spend a few extra hours aboard the International Space Station (ISS), if all goes according to plan. Crew-3's Dragon capsule had been scheduled to dep… [+2382 chars]
Hot on the heels of the year's first solar eclipse — a partial eclipse on April 30 — a total lunar eclipse is on the horizon. Between the late evening of May 15 and the early morning of May 16, depe… [+2973 chars]
Seagrasses are some of the most efficient carbon sinks on Earth: one square kilometer can store nearly twice as much carbon as forests on land, and 35 times as fast. Now, a research team led by the M… [+2893 chars]
Scientists have identified some remains, or fossils, of huge ancient reptiles found on mountain tops in Switzerland years ago. The researchers finding is a little surprising. The fossils are from ich… [+2963 chars]
A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spacesmaking a beeline to escape from confinem… [+3157 chars]
<li>Boivin, N. L. et al. Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA113, 63886396 (2016).… [+24321 chars]
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealt… [+7599 chars]
This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA's Mars Express. At first glance, these features look a… [+3656 chars]
ByBill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 3, 2022 A new NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United State… [+7612 chars]
We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6110 chars]
