Astrophotographer Mark Johnston has captured a fascinating view of the sun, this time showing a cloud of hydrogen plasma spinning and dancing on the solar surface, suspended by powerful magnetic fields. The incredible close-up, taken on October 20, 2025 from Willow Springs Lake, Arizona, compresses 75 minutes of real-time solar activity into a hypnotic 6.5-second…
With winds whirling at about 290 kilometers per hour, Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean — and is poised to become the strongest storm ever to make landfall in Jamaica. It’s also a huge storm, with hurricane-force winds extending over 70 kilometers from its core. Hours before official…
Raquel Feltman: Para Científico americano‘s Ciencia rápidamente, Soy Rachel Feltman. El algoritmo de TikTok, que da forma a lo que ven más de mil millones de usuarios, se ha ganado una reputación casi mística por descubrir lo que la gente quiere ver. Esos poderes no son realmente mágicos, pero sí importan. Un algoritmo tan utilizado…
I placed the cold, jade rolling pin under my cheekbone and gently glided it to the edge of my face. To be honest, I felt a bit like a piece of pastry. But my grandma assured me that I was engaging in a serious traditional Chinese practice that would make my skin glow and my…
Participants identify concerns in their areas during the mapping workshop. Photo: PhilSA The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) conducted a three-day PINAS Workshop and Training on Space Science and Technology Applications (SSTA) for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) from April 23 to 25, 2025 in Malolos City, Bulacan. Representatives from the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk…
Thanks, Ken. I asked chatGPT to review your review. The following is from chatGPT, with a comment from me in parentheses about formatting a table… Full text of the comment (for reference): Martín…I can criticize what you thought about the report… “…which I think is discrediting the science that shows that global warming is real,…
Across Iranvast tracts of land are constantly collapsing. In some regions, the ground is sinking at a rate of up to 30 centimeters per year – the fastest recorded worldwide. This is not a sudden disaster like an earthquake or flood. It is a slow, silent and largely irreversible transformation, reshaping the country’s geography from…
Normally I like the beginning of the school year, but this year I want to do it again. Lucky for me, a new year begins next week: the Year of Water 2026! We had a surprise storm this week, with purple streaks of lightning and raindrops filling our barrel to complete the end of water…
Basidiomes of Laccaria carminostipes (AC);L. mangshanensis (gl); L. sinolatericia (American soldier) YD Xu and ZM He; L. japonica Popa and K. Nara (jk); L. versiforma HJ Cho and YW Lim (left). in Xu, Zhang, Chen and he, 2025 Scale bars: 1 cm. Abstract lacaria is a large genus within the Hydnangiaceae family, and there are…
Thursday, September 4, 2025 – London, UK and Chicago, USA. Researchers associated with a fictitious research network and funding source have collectively raised millions of dollars of taxpayer money for current studies in the United States, Japan, Ireland, and other nations. This is according to research led by Digital Science’s vice president of research integrity,…