Satellite imagery tracks glacier surges, revealing hidden lake hazards

Satellite imagery tracks glacier surges, revealing hidden lake hazards

Sentinel-2 false colour near-infrared images. Credit: ESA and the Sentinel Hub EO Browser. University of Portsmouth New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a glacier surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities. During glacier surges, the ice begins […]

Moon over Mars? Congress is determined to kill Elon Musk’s space dream.

Moon over Mars? Congress is determined to kill Elon Musk’s space dream.

Trump confidant Elon Musk wants NASA to drop its ambitious plans to return to the moon and instead head straight to Mars. Congress is ready to put up a fight. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who control NASA’s purse strings, want Americans to return to the lunar surface in 2027 — and they’re not willing to […]

Watch A Baby King Crab Steal Your Heart, One Adorable Spike At A Time

Watch A Baby King Crab Steal Your Heart, One Adorable Spike At A Time

Animals and their offspring can either look like copy and paste versions, or have radically different appearances from each other. While clearing up some debris on the seafloor, NOAA got more than they bargained for with an adorable king crab baby hitchhiker.  While working in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer in 2024, the […]

Xander on ‘Bunk’d’ ‘Memba Him?!

Xander on ‘Bunk’d’ ‘Memba Him?!

American actor Kevin Quinn was 17 years old when he first started playing Xander — the camp counselor who loves writing poems and playing guitar — on Disney Channel’s “Bunk’d” back in 2015. Kevin was part of an ensemble cast like Peyton List as the girly counselor-in-training who’s obsessed with shoes and Kevin’s girlfriend, Emma, […]

‘Best In The World’ Jasprit Bumrah Named ICC Men’s Player Of Month For December 2024

‘Best In The World’ Jasprit Bumrah Named ICC Men’s Player Of Month For December 2024

India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Tuesday named ICC Men’s Player of the Month for December 2024 after his sensational performance during the recent tour of Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Leading India’s attack single-handedly, Bumrah relentlessly kept Australian batsmen under intense pressure, claiming 22 wickets in three Tests in December last […]

Games Workshop share price falters on half-year results as fears of US tariffs loom

Games Workshop share price falters on half-year results as fears of US tariffs loom

Image source: Games Workshop plc Despite a strong performance, Games Workshop‘s (LSE: GAW) share price slipped almost 4% today (14 January) after the company published its first-half 2024/2025 results. These revealed a pre-tax profit of £126.8m, marking a 25% rise compared to £95.2m in the prior year. Core revenue reached £269.4m, a 10% increase from […]

Oregon Cascades hide a huge buried aquifer

Oregon Cascades hide a huge buried aquifer

Scientists examine a large-volume spring in young volcanic rocks of the McKenzie River watershed on the west side of the Cascade topographic crest that was monitored as part of this study. Credit: Benjamin Nash Oregon’s Cascade Range mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance: water. Scientists from the University […]

House Republicans and Trump discuss tying California wildfire aid to debt ceiling

House Republicans and Trump discuss tying California wildfire aid to debt ceiling

A group of House Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump talked about tying wildfire aid to a debt ceiling increase Sunday night, as the fires spreading across huge swaths of Los Angeles are estimated to become one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Of the nearly two dozen House Republicans who attended the Sunday […]

How Did Dinosaurs Have Sex? A Guide To Studying Extinct Love Lives

How Did Dinosaurs Have Sex? A Guide To Studying Extinct Love Lives

Researcher are forever finding and naming new-to-science species of dinosaurs, but it feels like we don’t speak as much about where new dinosaurs came from in the most literal sense. That is, when two dinosaurs wanted to make baby dinosaurs, how did they do it? Dinosaur sex is something that science writer and palaeontologist Riley […]