SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah’s Hogle Zoo is home to a new resident — Gaia, the black-footed cat, a species known as the deadliest cat on the planet. As the smallest species of wild cat, with a height of only eight inches and weight of two to five pounds, why are they considered the […]
Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little how our team of astronomers felt when we discovered a massive planet, more than 13 times heavier than Earth, around a […]
In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events. There wouldn’t be weather without heat; heat is energy, and weather is an expression of that energy, of an atmosphere trying to balance itself. But too much heat in the system […]
A red planet, mars, is seen on the left. a white box surrounds an image of mars’ surface, with an arrow from the box to the planet. another box, with an arrow pointing to the first box, shows a closer view of the surface of mars. A team from the University of Arizona’s Lunar and […]
A handful of companies have begun to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and store it underground in an effort to fight climate change. But challenges remain in ramping up the technology to a large enough scale that will make it affordable and effective enough to start to halt the rise of global temperatures. […]
Elon Musk touted the Tesla Cybertruck as the perfect vehicle for an apocalypse at a launch event in Texas a few weeks ago. And on its website, Tesla claims the futuristic electric vehicle is “built for any planet,” being “durable and rugged enough to go anywhere.” Many recalled such boasts when a video went viral this […]
As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on seismographs, the same instruments used to monitor and study earthquakes. That wave signal has been getting more intense in recent […]