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NASA’s Artemis 1 project is incredibly important if humanity is going to become an interstellar species. The first tests were launched recently, and now the first step of the Artemis Mission is finished. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California. It was the first step to getting […]

There are a ton of parasites in the world today, but most of the time we never come across them in the developed world. Little things like purifying our water supply and cooking our food have allowed us to avoid many. Yet animals such as wolves do not have this luxury most of the time. […]

Three Indigenous Tribes in the United States are facing some major climate threats right now. This has led the federal government to offer these tribes a total of $75 million as part of a new federal program designed to help them move from their tribal homes and facilities. Many of these buildings are affected by […]

If you thought that a supercomputer would be able to start its own simulated universe, we would have laughed at you a few years ago. Today though, we’d be eating our words. Recently, a supercomputer managed to start an infant universe (based on our own) and show how it transforms from a featureless landscape to […]

Evolution might be a real thing, but it’s quite complicated and we’re finding out more about it every single day. One recent study just added more complication to it all, when it found a new branch of fungal evolution we never knew about previously. This all came as a result of 600 seemingly disparate fungi […]

Whenever meetings take place with members of the European Space Agency, you expect to hear a lot of interesting stuff. While there was quite a lot of news coming out of their meeting in Paris, France this past week, the big one has to do with the upcoming budget. The ESA’s budget will be increasing […]

Artemis 1 launched into space after over a decade of building and perfecting everything. It launched out of the Kennedy Space Center on November 16th, to the cheers of everyone at NASA and other international space agencies worldwide. The Orion Spacecraft was stacked on October 20th, marking the very first time a super-heavy-lift vehicle has […]

It is rare that science declares a species to be long-dead only for it to turn up alive somewhere. It is very common for a species to be endangered, and sometimes specialists claim that a particular species is nearly or assumed to be extinct. Yet to be so sure that an extinct title is put […]

While we’re not the type of people to go out licking animals, it seems that the National Park Service is pretty adamant that we shouldn’t do this. In particular, we should not lick the Sonoran Desert Toad (or Colorado River Toad). Sure, to some this might feel like the NPS is just sucking the fun […]