One hundred Southern Corroboree frogs—a critically endangered Australian frog species—have returned to their native home in an Australian mountain range known as the Snowy Mountains. Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains will establish the new frog population in a purpose-built field enclosure designed to protect and observe the frogs. The enclosure features irrigation systems…
Worm Moon Signals Return of Spring
The Worm Moon, the last full moon of winter, peaked over the United States early Friday, as the Northern Hemisphere prepared to usher in spring. An Associated Press photographer watched the moon rise near an illuminated Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the Worm Moon was…
NASA’s Big, New Moon Rocket Begins Rollout En Route to Launch Pad Tests
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s next-generation moon rocket began a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey out of its assembly plant en route to the launch pad in Florida on Thursday for a final round of tests in the coming weeks that will determine how soon the spacecraft can fly. Rollout of the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket…
SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites From Florida
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into space on Saturday. The Falcon 9 carried 53 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Starlink provides high-speed broadband internet across the globe. It was the 12th time the reusable Falcon 9 first-stage…
Russia Ridicules Idea That Cosmonauts Wore Yellow in Support of Ukraine
Russia’s space agency on Saturday dismissed Western media reports suggesting Russian cosmonauts joining the International Space Station (ISS) had chosen to wear yellow suits with a blue trim in support of Ukraine. “Sometimes yellow is just yellow,” Roscosmos’ press service said on its Telegram channel. “The flight suits of the new crew are made in…
Drone Used to Locate Fallen Meteorite in Australia
A student researcher from Western Australia’s Curtain University has used a drone to help pinpoint the location of a meteorite fragment on the remote Nullarbor Plain. Thousands of small meteorites are thought to hit Earth’s surface each year, but for every impact witnessed almost 800 space rock chunks land in oceans or remote landscapes and…
Immigration-Driven Population Growth Claiming Vast Swaths of Open Space: Report
March 18, 2022
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A new report from NumbersUSA has revealed that 17,800 square miles of open space in the U.S. was claimed by development between 2002 and 2017. That area is about as large as Connecticut and Maryland put together. “The rate of sprawl in this century has slowed down fairly substantially from what it was in the…
New Russian Cosmonaut Team Arrives at International Space Station
Three Russian cosmonauts safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, docking their Soyuz capsule with the outpost for a mission that continues a 20-year shared Russian–U.S. presence in orbit despite tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rendezvous came about three hours and 10 minutes after the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the new…
Extra Napping Tied to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk, Study Finds
By Joseph Wilkinson From New York Daily News Don’t sleep on this research. Excessive napping among older adults is strongly correlated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published Thursday. Elderly adults who averaged more than an hour of sleep during the daytime were 40 percent more likely to develop signs of…
Russian Cosmonauts Set for Friday Launch to International Space Station
Three Russian cosmonauts were due for launch on Friday to the International Space Station (ISS), continuing a two-decade-plus shared Russian-U.S. presence aboard the orbiting outpost despite heightened terrestrial tensions between Moscow and Washington. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the new cosmonaut team was set for lift-off at 15:55 GMT (11:55 a.m. Eastern time) from Russia’s Baikonur…
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