Science

Egg Shortage: What’s Behind Soaring Prices – and When Will They Go Back Down?

The bird flu epidemic has led to an acute egg shortage. Karrastock While the world has been gripped by COVID-19,…

2 years ago

For This Invisible Star System, One Year Is Only 20.5 Hours Long

An illustration of an ultracool dwarf star (front, red) with a companion white dwarf (back, white with blue haze).  Getty…

2 years ago

Mars Challenge: Spot the Tiny NASA Helicopter in This Rover Image

This Perseverance rover image from Jan. 8, 2023 shows wheel tracks, rocks, dunes and the Ingenuity helicopter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Processing by Amanda…

2 years ago

Elon Musk Updates Timeline for Starship to Finally Launch to Space

Starship 24 shows off what just one of its engines can do. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET It's been over…

2 years ago

Green Comet Likely to Be Visible to Naked Eye Won’t Be Back for 50,000 Years

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki The new year is just over a week…

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First Ever Honeybee Vaccine Approved to Target Deadly Global Disease

The vaccine targets American Foulbrood, a deadly disease caused by a bacteria known as Paenibacillus larvae. Getty Images/NurPhoto The US…

2 years ago

China’s First Mars Rover May Have Run Into Trouble on the Dusty Planet

Hello, Zhurong rover and Tianwen-1 lander. This selfie came from a remote camera set on the surface of Mars. CNSA…

2 years ago

Grim 2022 US Climate Report Details $165 Billion in Disaster Costs

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured this view of Hurricane Ian south of Florida on Sept. 26, 2022. CIRA/RAMMB/NOAA Extreme weather and…

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What Is a ‘Bomb Cyclone’? Here’s Why It’s So Brutal

Record rains, brought on by a series of atmospheric river storms, hit the Central Coast and Santa Barbara County, causing…

2 years ago

Astronomers Have Unveiled Our Galaxy’s Farthest Frontier

Our Milky Way's center is normally hidden from standard, optical telescopes due to clouds of dust and gas. But the Spitzer…

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