A bright fireball that was spotted Saturday afternoon in the skies over southeastern Texas was confirmed to be a meteor that likely broke apart over the Houston area, according to NASA. Eyewitness accounts in the greater Houston area — including footage from a doorbell camera, a car’s dashboard camera and video captured during a Little…
An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common at the height of summer. The blistering heat wave, which has persisted all week throughout California and the desert Southwest, will continue to build and spread east into the…
An international research team from Bielefeld University and the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) has uncovered a previously unknown regulatory mechanism in human cells. For the first time, they demonstrate how a key molecular switch regulates the cell’s “recycling centers.” The findings, published in Nature Communications, provide important insights into the understanding of cancer and…
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It’s important to make your workspace comfortable. You’ll likely be spending 8 hours a day there—and staring at a drab, lifeless setup isn’t conducive to productive work, especially if the space isn’t even designed to make working easier. The problem is even worse if you work from home and have the same space for work,…
By tracing magnetic signals preserved in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia, geoscientists have found the oldest direct evidence yet that parts of the planet’s outer shell were shifting across the globe, pushing the origins of plate motion deep into Earth’s early history. Hadean Earth. Image credit: Alec Brenner. “There has been a huge range of…
An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common at the height of summer. The blistering heat wave, which has persisted all week throughout California and the desert Southwest, will continue to build and spread east into the…
A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials. Speaking to the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident, saying: “My grandson went to check and said there was a hole in the ceiling … then I…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The moon shines close to the Pleiades later this week. | Credit: Foreground: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio.Background: NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech Heads up, stargazers! The waxing crescent moon will glide close to the Pleiades tonight and tomorrow (March…
Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river have led to a hungrier population of invasive northern pike, a trend that could imperil native salmon and other fish species. A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led research team analyzed the stomach contents of northern pike caught by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Deshka River during…
