The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is Japan’s mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active spacecraft in orbit around the second planet from the sun. The $300 million spacecraft launched in 2010 and had a less than stellar start to its mission, […]
The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is Japan’s mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active spacecraft in orbit around the second planet from the sun. The $300 million spacecraft launched in 2010 and had a less than stellar start […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Humans produce roughly 35 billion tons of CO2, and while the world can reliably soak up half that amount, it‘s clear the planet needs help to combat anthropogenic climate change. A new solution from Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University is a porous […]
Mar. 23—How can Santa Fe reduce social isolation among youth? How can organizations or governments draw on social science to prepare for disasters? If you’ve ever wanted advice from a social scientist, Santa Fe’s Eldorado Hotel & Spa is the place to be Tuesday. The five-day annual meeting of the international organization the Society for […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate. Some scientists have suspected a volcanic winter resulting from the […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short […]