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Early in the morning of November 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where Earth meets space: the ionosphere. Overlapping the farthest reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and the very beginning of space, the ionosphere stre...

Seabirds with large bills may be capable of longer flights. Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food. In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology,...

As the climate changes, myriad animal populations are being impacted. In particular, Arctic sea ice is in decline, causing polar bears in the Barents Sea region to alter their feeding and hunting habits. Bears that follow sea ice to offshore areas have higher pollutant levels than those staying on l...

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Boston University astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere that’s shaped somewhere between a croissant and a beach ball. The heliosphere is a vast region, extending more than twice as far as Pluto. It casts a magnetic “force field” around all the planets, de...

Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun’s magnetic field and envelops all the planets. The borders of this cosmic bubble are not fixed. In response to the ...

Thanks to the sniffling noses, coughs, and colds that accompany the colder months of the year, we are all too familiar with the seasonal patterns of some respiratory viruses. A new review published in Frontiers in Public Health suggests that COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, will...

Rice University theorists show how random processes cancel out to ensure microbial health. Fat bacteria? Skinny bacteria? From our perspective on high, they all seem to be about the same size. In fact, they are. Precisely why has been an open question, according to Rice University chemist Anatoly Ko...

Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield, Protecting Their Atmospheres Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth’s surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the emergence of life, temperatures were scorching, and the air was toxic. Plus, as a mere toddler, the Sun bombarded our planet with vi...

The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the Big Bang, the composition of young planetary systems, and the history of galaxies. NASA’s upcoming space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and I...

A new study suggests that lunar water is not only formed by the solar wind but also by particles from Earth’s magnetosphere, known as “Earth wind.”  Before the Apollo era, the moon was thought to be dry as a desert due to the extreme temperatures and harshness of the space environme...

A 2020 explosion in Lebanon’s port city of Beirut led to a southward-bound, high-velocity atmospheric wave that rivaled ones generated by volcanic eruptions. Just after 6 p.m. local time (15.00 UTC) on August 4, 2020, more than 2,750 tons worth of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate exploded in Lebanon...