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Dangerous feral hogs that destroy lawns and eat plastic are growing across the US, and states can't kill them fast enough

Thu, 07/04/2024 - 09:32

Two feral hogs are caught in a trap on a farm in rural Washington County, Mo., Jan. 27, 2019. — Feral pigs are difficult to trap, and there are too many for the US to keep up with.
David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, file

Science, feral-hogs, feral-pigs, invasive-speices, Agriculture

Experts are racing to contain 'the most dangerous' monkeypox virus yet before it causes a global outbreak

Wed, 07/03/2024 - 17:28

Electron microscope image of various virions (virus particles) of the monkeypox virus. — Electron microscope image of various virions (virus particles) of a monkeypox virus taken from human skin.
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Science, monkeypox, mpox, virus, infectious-disease, Pandemic

SpaceX Dragon Capsule debris as big as a car hood crash-landed in North Carolina. It's part of a major space trash problem.

Wed, 07/03/2024 - 16:52

Dragon Capsule — The trunk of SpaceX's dragon capsule (left) was designed to burn up upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. Instead, it crash landed in North Carolina.
REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Science, space-junk, NASA, spacex, space-debris

Earth's inner core reversed direction and is slowing down, and scientists don't know why

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 11:13

illustration of earth's 4 planetary layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core — Earth's inner core has been exhibiting some unusual behavior.
Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images

Science, Earth, earth-science, Earthquake

A luxury Viking cruise ship helped scientists encounter the rarely-seen giant phantom jellyfish

Mon, 07/01/2024 - 18:20

A Viking cruise ship and giant phantom jellyfish — Tourists saw giant phantom jellyfish, typically an elusive species, during Viking Expedition submersible rides.
Viking Expedition; Mark Niesink/Viking Expedition

Science, giant-phantom-jellyfish, viking-cruises, antarctica, antarctic-tourism

A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal

Mon, 07/01/2024 - 10:58

mummified wolf on a white table surrounded by people in protective white coveralls and masks and gloves — Locals discovered this mummified wolf in the thawing permafrost in Siberia.
North-Eastern Federal University

Science, pleistocene, mummification, wolf, viruses, siberia, permafrost

A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test

Mon, 07/01/2024 - 00:00

A Long March-4C rocket carrying the satellite Shiyan-23 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, May 12, 2024.

Science, spacex, China, space-technology, falcon-9

A new study suggests a culprit in bird flu's rapid spread through US cattle, and how to stop it

Sat, 06/29/2024 - 06:48

cow udder rigged with machine and tubes for milking — A dairy cow is milked at the South Mountain Creamery farm in Middletown, Maryland.
Carlos Barria/Reuters

Science, bird-flu, h5-n1, Cows, Milk, avian-influenza, Dairy

It's getting so hot, EMTs are putting overheated people in iced body bags

Fri, 06/28/2024 - 13:29

A firefighter demonstrates a cold water immersion technique on a mannequin wrapped in a blue tarp — Phoenix Fire Captain John Prato demonstrates how emergency medical professionals can treat heat stroke with ice and a body bag.
Anita Snow/AP Photo

Science, heat-stroke, emergency-medical-services-ems, heatwave, ice-bath

US astronauts had to take shelter after a Russian satellite broke into over 100 pieces near the ISS

Fri, 06/28/2024 - 01:38

The ISS' exterior, taken in June 2023, shows the SpaceX Dragon crew and cargo vehicles docked. — This photo of the ISS' exterior was taken in June 2023.
NASA Johnson

Science, Space, NASA

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