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South Korean officials found that children’s clothes from Temu and AliExpress contained toxic substances. Many fashion brands use toxic chemicals like PFAS and phthalates, which have come under increasing scrutiny. Consumers face less risk getting sick from these ingredients in clothing than textile plant workers do. Editor’s note: This list was first published in August […]
‘NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring. This image includes filters representing 7.7-micron light as blue, 11.3-micron light as green, and 12.8-micron light as red.’ | Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The James Webb […]
A critically endangered ‘Akikiki that study lead author Kyle Kittelberger photographed on Kauai in 2022. Credit: Kyle Kittelberger Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500. Species most likely to go extinct sooner were […]
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Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later. Fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs might hold important clues to how and why this evolutionary milestone came about, according to a new paper published in the […]
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. Launched on Oct. 14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently en route to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean. The mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
Magnetic vortices descending from Jupiter’s ionosphere into its deep atmosphere are believed to trigger the formation of ultraviolet-absorbing anticyclonic storms, according to a study published on November 26 in Nature Astronomy. These storms, appearing as dark ovals, span the size of Earth and have been observed primarily in Jupiter’s polar regions. The phenomenon was first […]
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and open science by NASA has been reported to significantly advance disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts. According to the space agency, NASA’s Disasters Program, supported by the agency’s commitment to open science, has been developing innovative tools and datasets to assist in managing natural disasters like hurricanes. These […]
An explosion occurred during a test of the second-stage engine for Japan’s Epsilon S rocket on November 26, according to officials. The engine failure, which took place at the Tanegashima Space Center, has cast uncertainty on the rocket’s development schedule. The Epsilon S was expected to debut in March 2025 with the launch of a […]