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How to Use Mobile Astronomy Apps to View the Mercury Transit of 2019

On Nov. 11, 2019, the world will witness a rare transit of Mercury across the disk of the sun. You'll need a telescope equipped with a proper solar filter to view the five-hour event — but whether you can see it at all depends on where you live. In this edition of ...

Science of the Mercury Transit: How Astronomers Will Study the Rare Celestial Event

On Monday (Nov.11), observers and scientists in North America will have their last opportunity to view a rare celestial event for three decades. Mercury will cross in front of the sun, as seen from Earth, a process known as a transit. Although the last transit of ...

Melting Arctic ice may be spreading a deadly virus to spread in marine mammals

CBS News

CBS News

A deadly virus is rapidly spreading among marine mammals in the Arctic. In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists have found a link between the disease and melting sea ice due to climate change. Phocine distemper virus (PDV) ...

7 Things You Need To Know About Monday's Transit Of Mercury, North America's Last for 30 Years

Forbes

Forbes

On Monday morning at 7:34 a.m. ET the planet Mercury will begin to cross the sun's disk. This is not going to be the easiest astronomical event of 2019 to witness, but it is easily the rarest. It last happened 2016, and it won't happen again until 2032, but why ...

Study points to new weapon in fight against lethal fungi

Researchers at Monash University have gained insights into how nanoparticles could be used to identify the presence of invasive and sometimes deadly microbes, and deliver targeted treatments more effectively. This study was conducted as an ...

Fossil suggests apes, old world monkeys moved in opposite directions from shared ancestor

In terms of their body plan, Old World monkeys—a group that includes primates like baboons and macaques—are generally considered more similar to ancestral species than apes are. But a new study that analyzes the first well-preserved femur of ...

Great apes pass a false-belief test, hinting at a theory of mind

Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Theory of mind is the recognition that others have mental states, just as you do. It is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to acknowledge that their mental state—their beliefs, their perspectives, how their experiences have shaped them—differs ...

NASA Scientists Show Different Roaming Patterns of Dinosaurs

Science Times

Science Times

Dinosaurs are always become a hot topic not only for scientists but ordinary people. Considering this interest, different companies are designing lifelike dinosaurs. Nowadays, a dinosaur suit allows you to roam like a dinosaur in parties and theme parks.

Loose pin responsible for Boeing Starliner failing to deploy parachute in test

Boeing has identified the part which lead to a parachute failing to deploy during the testing of its Starliner capsule earlier this week. The company has announced that a misplaced pin was the cause of the issue. On Tuesday, Boeing performed an important ...

NASA's charge-dissipating paint provides a potential solution to a dusty problem

One challenge of lunar landings is something so small you might not even think about it — moon dust. Despite — or perhaps because of — its tiny size, the fine dust that covers the moon's surface causes a range of technical problems from gumming up ...