Collaborate Disseminate
“Scotty” weighed about 20,000 pounds and lived longer than any other known tyrannosaur, according to University of Alberta paleontologists. Continue reading Paleontologists Identify the World’s Largest Tyrannosaurus Rex
The Sun is getting grumpy again after years of relative peace. Continue reading Weekend Solar Storm May Create Auroras As Far South As Vancouver and NYC
“If we can’t build something capable of delivering astronomical levels of energy, perhaps we could instead steal the energy from an astronomical object.” Continue reading The ‘Halo Drive’ Would Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Explore the Milky Way
Sun bears show social intelligence by copying the open-mouthed expressions of their playmates. Continue reading These Bears Can Mimic Faces Like Humans and Apes
SoCal’s mountain lions are on track to be wiped out within 50 years, but conservation projects could save them. Continue reading Highways Are Driving Cougars to Inbreeding and Extinction In Southern California
An experiment involving 40 drugged alligators reveals how dinosaurs might have located sounds in their environment. Continue reading Scientists Gave Alligators Ketamine and Headphones to Understand Dinosaur Hearing
The December 18 fireball created the biggest airburst since the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. Continue reading A Meteor More Powerful Than 10 Atomic Bombs Exploded Over the Bering Sea
A team heated a cloud of gas up to 2,000°F and blasted it with radiation to see what happens on giant planets that orbit very close to their stars. Continue reading NASA Scientists Created a Super-Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere on Earth
DM Tau has its own asteroid belt, and may be developing its own versions of Earth and Neptune, too. Continue reading Astronomers Peer at a Young Star System That Is Strikingly Similar to Our Own
“This discovery dramatically changes our view on the origin of fast-moving stars.” Continue reading This Runaway ‘Hypervelocity’ Star Was Catapulted from the Milky Way’s Disk