Becky Ferreira
Contributor
The Atlantic Ocean Is Getting Bigger, And Scientists Now Think They Know Why
The Americas have been drifting apart from Europe and Africa at a rate of four centimeters a year, and a new study has revealed the dramatic processes at play.
Elon Musk Is Leasing Land to Drill for Natural Gas In Texas
Lone Star Minerals Development, the SpaceX subsidiary, spun up last year and is already embroiled in a legal dispute.
How SpaceX’s Plan to Convert Oil Rigs Into Launch Pads Could Work
The company is retrofitting two offshore oil platforms in Texas to service its next-generation Starship vehicle.
Scientists Find 20 Million-Year-Old Giant Predatory Nightmare Worm
Trace fossils reveal an “life and death struggle between predator and prey” that played in what is now Taiwan.
White House Website Recognizes Climate Change Is Real Again
The Biden administration updated the official White House website with information about the climate crisis.
Biden Will Rejoin Paris Accord and Halt Arctic Drilling on First Day in Office
The new president plans to sign “a historic number of actions” on day one of his presidency, including canceling the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Scientists Have Finally Found a Dinosaur's Butthole, and It's Pooping
Scientists were able to describe the cloaca, which included a fossilized piece of dinosaur poo, in detail for the first time.
This Musician Makes Songs From Outer Space Data
Matt Russo, a musician and lecturer at the University of Toronto, converts astronomical data into musical compositions on his website, SYSTEM Sounds.
2020 Tied 2016 for the Hottest Year on Record, NASA and NOAA Say
2020 and 2016 were both terrible for another reason: rising temperatures driven by climate change that are having devastating effects, officials announced.
Captive Gorillas Have Caught Coronavirus at a Zoo
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are coughing, officials said, after an asymptomatic staff member is believed to have infected the animals.
Scientists Found a Raging Galactic Core From Near the Beginning of Time
The active galactic nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole and was spotted just 670 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant quasar ever discovered.
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
Scientists think they may have spied the universe's "gravitational wave background" after more than a decade of searching.