Musician, composer and record producer Brian Eno has a new namesake in a space rock. In a tribute to the man whose name has become synonymous with ambient music, astronomers renamed the asteroid formerly known as 81948 (2000 OM69) to Eno. Just Eno — short for Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la…
Inside a Crimean cave was a gigantic ancient mystery just waiting to be uncovered: a bird so large that it weighed nearly as much as an adult polar bear. Giant birds once roamed Madagascar, New Zealand and Australia. The latest fossil find, an intriguing fossilized femur, was recently found in Taurida Cave on the northern…
Two Americans traveling in Barbados are missing after they took a rented personal watercraft out to sea and did not return Monday, according to the country’s national police. The Royal Barbados Police Force said it is seeking public assistance to locate Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, who were both wearing life jackets when…
Prince William said today that he wouldn’t care if his children were gay, but he’d be worried about the pressures they would face from society. “I fully support whatever decision they make, but it does worry me from a parent point of view, you know, how many barriers, hateful words, persecution, all that, and discrimination…
The Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010, but mystery still surrounds the early history of our extinct human relative. Now, after researchers were able to extract nuclear genome sequences from two Neanderthal bones that predate others with sequenced genomes, a new study aims to answer some of the remaining questions. The study focuses on a…
As a self-proclaimed “princess,” Shantell “Shannie” Pooser is comfortable in the spotlight. But instead of a tiara or a ballgown, this 17-year-old prefers a pair of silver wings and a crisp, navy blue flight attendant’s uniform. Pooser is American Airlines’ first honorary flight attendant with Down syndrome. Since pinning on those wings and posting about…
The Hubble Space Telescope has identified soccer ball-shaped molecules amid the gas and dust that fills the space beyond our solar system and between other star systems. That space is known as the interstellar medium or ISM, and Hubble is exposing some of the mysterious electrically charged molecules within it. A recently published study in…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is set to launch next summer and land in Jezero Crater on the red planet in February 2021. It’s called the 2020 rover for obvious reasons, but it will carry a new name before launch. This is a tradition with the Martian rovers. Before it was dubbed Curiosity, the previously deployed…
Europe is bracing for an “exceptional” heat wave, with authorities activating emergency plans that include setting up public cooling rooms and extending hours at swimming pools. Temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) are forecast in a number of major cities across the continent, with meteorologists warning that higher humidity could make it feel…
Europe is only three days into summer, and Mother Nature is quickly cranking up the heat. A “potentially dangerous” heat wave is forecast to engulf the continent this week. With summer 2018’s devastating heat wave and droughts still fresh in the minds of Europeans, many are wondering whether this season will feature more of the…