A Toxic Workplace Triples Your Risk of Depression, a New Study Finds

You know toxic workplaces are bad for mental health. You'll be surprised by how bad.

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Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It

Now might be the time to wipe the dust off that pair of binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show, looking spiffier than at any time during the year – a performance that will be followed a few weeks later by Jupiter.

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A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself - and won

A UCLA physics professor bet a popular science YouTuber $10,000 that one of his videos promoted fallacious physics. The YouTuber won.

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Scientists See the Backside of a Black Hole for the First Time, Prove Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Correct - IGN News - IGN

A theory about black holes and how they eject light waves out of their backsides posited by Albert Einstein in 1915 has been proven correct, more than 100 years later.

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Why It Actually Took 50 Years to Make COVID mRNA Vaccines

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A new spin on planet formation mysteries

Astronomers have captured the first-ever spin measurements of planets making up the HR 8799 star system.

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Croatia celebrates joining of controversial Adriatic Sea bridge

The China-led project has angered Bosnian officials, who argue it violates the state’s access to open waters.

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Anti-Vaccination Movement & Dunning-Kruger Effect | Vaccine Hesitancy

Dr. Todd Grande has a very insightful lecture worth watching.

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Galileo Project: scientists to search for signs of extraterrestrial technology

A team of scientists will embark on a new international research project led by Harvard University to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life by looking for advanced technology it may leave behind.

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Cutting Carbon Pollution Quickly Would Save Millions of Lives, Study Finds

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly would save tens of millions of lives worldwide, a new study finds. It's the latest indication that climate change is deadly to humans, and that the benefits of transitioning to a cleaner economy could be profound.

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What to expect if you get a breakthrough case of COVID-19

Breakthrough cases of COVID-19 are often milder — here's what's commonly experienced

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We could hunt gravitational waves on the moon if this wild idea takes off

Humanity's return to the moon could open up new windows on the universe. NASA is working to establish a permanent human presence on and around the moon by the end of the 2020s, via a program known as Artemis. That presence may eventually include radio telescopes on the moon's exceptionally quiet far side — and, perhaps, even more ambitious off-Earth science facilities.

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50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon

The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers.

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Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.

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2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There.

The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the early solar system.

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The 'world's most powerful tidal turbine' starts to export power to the grid

The O2 turbine weighs 680 metric tons and has a length of 74 meters.

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1 in 5 women planning a pregnancy smoke cigarettes, study finds

Some women still consume harmful substances like alcohol and caffeine while trying for a baby, suggesting low awareness of the risks, new research has found.

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A scientist unearths potential evidence for the earliest animal life

Scientist Elizabeth Turner found fossilized evidence of 890-million-year-old sponges. These are possibly the earliest known evidence of animal life on Earth.

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'Metaverse': the next internet revolution?

Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are betting on as the next great leap in the evolution of the internet.

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Now is the time for the next space race.

Following the conclusion of World War II in the 1940s, worldwide superpowers started developing rocket propulsion technologies in aircraft, ultimately leading to supersonic planes like the North American X-15 and the first Race for Space. Currently, a new rivalry is brewing among private businesses seeking to expand outside our borders.

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Drama llama or sleep deprived? New study uncovers how consistent sleep loss impacts mental and physical well-being

USF researcher finds all it takes is three consecutive nights of sleep loss to cause your mental and physical well-being to greatly deteriorate.

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Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient electric car with over 1,000 km (620 miles) of range

Mercedes-Benz is teasing its upcoming new super-efficient electric car that the automaker claims will have over 1,000 km (620 miles) of range. It’s actually a shorter range than previously announced. Today, Mercedes-Benz announced an updated electrification plan that included a new plan to go all-electric by 2030.

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COVID-19 could cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction – but vaccines do not

Contrary to myths circulating on social media, COVID-19 vaccines do not cause erectile dysfunction and male infertility. What is true: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a risk for both disorders. Until now, little research has been done on how the virus or the vaccines affect the male reproductive system. But recent investigations by physicians and researchers here at the University of Miami have shed new light on these questions.

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Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering

Yale researchers observing the brains of closed-eyed baby mice found waves that help explain why mammals can navigate their environment so soon after birth.

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NASA's Mars helicopter soars past 1-mile mark in 10th flight over Red Planet

It was Ingenuity's highest flight yet, too.

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Jeff Bezos is offering to cover billions in costs if NASA remedies its 'mistake' and gives Blue Origin the chance to compete with SpaceX again for a moon-lander contract

Jeff Bezos' space company is offering to cover billions of dollars in costs for a contract with NASA to take astronauts to the moon. Blue Origin said it would cover up to $2 billion in operating costs for the first two years of production of a moon lander, waiving payments for the first two years if NASA awards the company the project. The company is also offering to develop and launch a pathfinder mission at its own costs, as well as work with NASA on a fixed-price contract, which would free NASA from any cost overages.

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Flashing meteor that exploded over Norway landed somewhere in a nearby forest

The hunt for fragments of an "unusually large meteor" that lit up the skies over Norway on 25 July has begun. The meteor awakened awestruck residents of the country's capital city, Oslo, with the sound of a large explosion. Footage shows the fireball from the meteor streaking across the sky in a trail of bright flashes at around 1 a.m. local time Sunday morning before it landed somewhere in a forest near Oslo.

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Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought

Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought. They found that the carbon drawn into Earth's interior at subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide and dive into Earth's interior—tends to stay locked away at depth, rather than resurfacing in the form of volcanic emissions.

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Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025

Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) by 2025.

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Bezos says he is now willing to invest in a Moon lander—here’s why

"I think they realized it's why they lost."

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Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapour at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede

Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the result of the thermal escape of water vapour from the moon’s icy surface.

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People who believe in science are more likely to wear masks in public to battle COVID-19

Belief in science predicts face mask wearing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, according to a new study published in Personality ...

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Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children

Dogs tend to ignore suggestions from people who are lying, hinting that – unlike human infants and some other primates – they might recognise when a person is being deceptive

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Steven Weinberg, Groundbreaking Nobelist in Physics, Dies at 88

His discoveries deepened understanding of the basic forces at play in the universe, and he took general readers back to its dawn in his book “The First Three Minutes.”

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Dietary supplements causing severe liver injuries in Australians, with some requiring transplants, study shows

Researchers say cases linked to products claiming to promote muscle growth or weight loss are rising and more rigorous oversight is needed

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Termite gut microbes can help turn toxic wood into biofuels

Termites are renowned for devouring wood. Now, bacteria in one termite species’ guts have been shown to break down toxic creosote, which is used to preserve wood. The finding could be useful for turning harmful chemically treated wood waste into biofuels.

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Large study finds COVID-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence

People who have recovered from COVID-19 tend to score significantly lower on an intelligence test compared to those who have not contracted the virus, ...

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The jaw-droppingly high, out-of-this-world carbon footprint of space tourism

The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On July 11, Branson ascended 80 km (49 miles) to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane, while Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket launched today on July 20, coinciding with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Although Bezos launched later than Branson, he set out to reach higher altitudes — about 120 km, or 74 miles.

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Self-powered implantable device stimulates fast bone healing, then disappears without a trace

The thin, flexible device is bioresorbable, so once the bone is knitted back together, the device’s components dissolve within the body.

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Nasa probe determines Mars' internal structure

Scientists now have absolute numbers for the thickness of the Red Planet's crust, mantle and core.

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Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says

The US government has tightened rules on which space-goers can claim their astronaut wings.

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Extending Human Lifespans: Using Artificial Intelligence To Find Anti-Aging Chemical Compounds

The University of Surrey has built an artificial intelligence (AI) model that identifies chemical compounds that promote healthy aging — paving the way towards pharmaceutical innovations that extend a person’s lifespan. In a paper published by Nature Communication’s Scientific Reports, a team of chemists from Surrey built a machine learning model based on the information from the DrugAge database to predict...

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Alphabet to launch robotics firm Intrinsic under its other bets unit

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) secretive research unit said on Friday it will launch Intrinsic, its new robotics software and artificial intelligence project, under the Google parent's segment that houses futuristic businesses such as Verily and Waymo.

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Tonight’s Orange-Tinted Full Moon, Known as the Buck Moon, Comes With a Warning

So far this year, there has been no shortage of photography-worthy celestial events centered around the moon. After a super pink moon in April, a total lunar eclipse in May and the Strawberry supermoon in June, it may seem that nothing can match that, until the upcoming eclipses towards the end of the year. Yet, this full moon comes with a worrying aspect and a warning.

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One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study

A new study lays to rest the tired argument that electric vehicles aren’t much cleaner than internal combustion vehicles. Over the life cycle of an EV — from digging up the materials needed to build it to eventually laying the car to rest — it will release fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a gas-powered car, the research found. That holds true globally, whether an EV plugs into a grid in Europe with a larger share of renewables, or a grid in India that still relies heavily on coal.

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NASA Releases First Detailed Map of the Insides of Mars

NASA’s InSight mission revealed Mars’s inner workings down to its core, highlighting great differences of the red planet from our blue world.

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Space tourism: Rockets emit 100 times more CO2 per passenger than flights, imagine a whole industry - Times of India

Science News: In order for international regulators to keep up with this nascent industry and control its pollution properly, scientists need a better understanding

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Do you have to be a billionaire to ride a rocket to space? No, but it helps.

Yesterday, Jeff Bezos — the founder and CEO of Amazon, and, not incidentally, Blue Origin — took a ride into space along with three other people inside the capsule of a New Shepard rocket.

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DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science

The company has already used its protein-folding AI, AlphaFold, to generate structures for the human proteome, as well as yeast, fruit flies, mice, and more.

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AI Is Learning To Understand How Vegetables Taste

This vertical farm in Pittsburgh, PA uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop a grow recipe for better tasting greens.

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