by blundun | Apr 3, 2024 | Science
Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measure fresh snow that fell during one mid-March day.Billy Barr first began recording...
by blundun | Apr 3, 2024 | Science
Skygazers in California were left stunned early Tuesday when they witnessed a series of bright fiery lights streaking across the clear night sky.Video shows the mysterious golden objects shooting across the sky in a straight line at around 1:30 a.m. in Moreno...
by blundun | Apr 3, 2024 | Science
NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.It’s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because there’s less gravity on the...
by blundun | Apr 2, 2024 | Science
What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Paul McCartney and Justin Bieber have in common with Ronald Reagan, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Fidel Castro and David Bowie? They are all left-handed, a trait shared by roughly 10% of people.But why are some people...
by blundun | Apr 2, 2024 | Science
Billions, if not trillions, of two groups of noisy flying insects are expected to emerge from the underground in 17 U.S. states in April in a rare natural phenomenon not seen since 1803.The insects, known as cicadas, are set to spring up and engage in a frantic mating...
by blundun | Mar 5, 2024 | Science
Scientists from the New England Aquarium (NEA) in Boston were flying off the coast of Nantucket on Friday when they saw a leviathan that has been extinct for over 200 years: a gray whale.The team of scientists was flying about 30 miles south of Nantucket when they...
