Science

Efforts to predict when solar outbursts will affect the Earth are frustratingly imprecise, but NASA expects them to get a little better. An AI system is now processing data from satellites to warn of solar storms powerful enough to damage vital infrastructure. If you’ve ever wondered what you would do if you had a day before a global catastrophe, you might want to shorten your timeline, just to be prepared. Not that the solar storms…

A man living in Australia under the name John Vincent Damon was actually escaped US prisoner William Leslie Arnold, according to DNA Harding obtained by US Marshals in Nebraska. Arnold was 16 when he murdered both his parents and buried them in the backyard, according to the reportedly a model prisoner for nearly ten years in the Nebraska State Penitentiary. On July 14, 1967, however, he and another inmate escaped from the prison, somewhat shaking…

Observations of Comet Read in the Main Asteroid Belt have shown for the first time that there is water vapor around this body, confirming without doubt its cometary status. JWST results indicate that primordial water can remain mostly unscathed in the boundary between the inner of outer Solar System, where it’s expected to be too warm for it. But the team was also surprised to see a lack of carbon dioxide in this object. Carbon…

There is a place in Honduras where something extremely unusual and miraculous happens each year, so the residents claim. In the farming town of Yoro, in the north-central part of the country, when the conditions are right, a storm of “biblical” proportions will blow through and then the impossible will happen – fish will fall from the sky.  To be sure, this phenomenon is not unique to this particular place; in fact, there have been…

Can we regrow lost teeth? You might believe that it’s impossible and that the only options while missing or chipped teeth are caps or filler, but advances in stem cell research may someday have something to say about that.  There are currently various avenues being explored by scientists to regrow teeth, including dental stem cell implants and monoclonal antibodies. Neither are quite yet ready while walk-in appointments, but safe, are rapidly advancing and could be…