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Google Science Feeds: Newly-discovered ancient crab species is like nothing science has seen before
When researchers discover fossils of species that are new to science it's only natural that they attempt to find a place for them in the colossal tree of life, matching them up with related species that may even exist today. A newly-discovered species of ancient ...
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Google Science Feeds: NASA's InSight Detects Its First 'Marsquake.' Have a Listen.
Earth isn't alone: The Red Planet shakes, too. For the first time, a tremor has been detected on Mars by NASA's InSight lander. The seismic waves, recorded on April 6, are pretty puny, equating to a magnitude 2 or 2.5 quake here on Earth, and don't reveal ...
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Google Science Feeds: Dark matter scientists observe the 'rarest event ever recorded'
The XENON1T detector has allowed scientists to observe an ultra-rare event: the radioactive decay of xenon-124. Xenon Collaboration. In a subterranean laboratory, about a mile below Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, scientists are hunting for dark matter using ...
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Google Science Feeds: China pledges to have the first Moon base within a decade
The Chinese space agency has spent the first few several months of 2019 exploring the far side of the Moon after being the first nation to successfully perform a soft landing on the half of Earth's neighbor that we never get to see. It deployed a rover — which is ...
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Google Science Feeds: The first 'Marsquake' was detected by NASA
The rumblings were detected by the InSight lander's SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument, which the robot placed on the planet's surface past year. While the rumble sounds like soft wind, scientists believe it came from within the red ...
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Google Science Feeds: Showers end and sun returns Friday
Scattered showers and storms continue tonight, tapering Friday morning. Temperatures run a few degrees cooler than days past and the sun breaks out after the lunch hour. Expect further improvements for Saturday. Temperatures will certainly be chilly in the ...
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Google Science Feeds: It's the size of a quarter, with big, bug eyes. And it's the strangest crab that ever lived
(CNN) A new species of crab that scientists say is the "strangest crab that has ever lived" has been discovered in Colombia and the United States. The prehistoric crab dates back to 95 million years ago and scientists say it defies all the normal crab features.
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Google Science Feeds: Carbon-monitoring instrument poised for launch to International Space Station
A $110 million NASA science instrument twice targeted for cancellation by the Trump administration is set for launch Tuesday inside the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule for delivery to the International Space Station, where it will spend three years ...
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Google Science Feeds: NASA IV & V hosts STEM-based 'Take Your Child To Work Day'
FAIRMONT, W.Va. - NASA's IV&V Program hosted the STEM version of Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day. NASA'S “Inspiring the Next Generation" themed day allowed staffers to bring their children into the facility to learn more about NASA through ...
