A field program, FASTEX, investigates connections between coast-to-coast winter storms and Atlantic Ocean storms to enhance forecasting for both Europe and North America. The project aims to identify precursors that trigger cyclones, enabling better forecasts up to two or three days in advance.
The museum has developed an innovative program that allows visitors to reconstruct a fragmented clay pot, draw their own masterpiece, and play a tune on a 1,800-year-old flute using computer kiosks. This 'hands-on' approach makes objects in the museums seem more alive, providing a vast array of information about the artifacts and art o...
Researchers outline requirements for habitable moons, including stable orbit and atmosphere retention. Moons in the right position and size could support life on planets like Jupiter's Europa.
The USGS National Earthquake Information Center lost near real-time data from the AT&T Telstar 401 satellite, but regional networks and cooperation with other seismic networks maintained earthquake monitoring. Smaller earthquakes are now harder to track due to slower reporting times.
Astronomers analyze over 1,700 gamma-ray bursts and find they are isotropic, meaning their distribution on the sky is almost perfectly random. This contradicts previous theories that placed these bursts within or just outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy.