Poor Pluto Is 10 Times Smaller Than Thought

Tiny Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Search Anywhere in the Sky

Share this on WhatsApp The smallest, most precise measurement ever made required one of the largest scientific instruments ever constructed. Five years ago the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a ripple in spacetime that was just one ten-thousandth the width of a proton—a technical tour de force tantamount to pinpointing the distance to the […]

Trump Administration Completes Climate Dismantling with Methane Rollback

Share this on WhatsApp EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the final rollback of Obama-era methane rules during a trip yesterday to Pittsburgh. The move marked the culmination of a 3 ½-year struggle by the Trump administration to undo emissions rules established at the end of President Obama’s second term. That removal came despite their being […]

We Must Mobilize to Avert a Lonely Earth

Share this on WhatsApp Recently, thousands of migratory birds suddenly dropped dead across New Mexico. Sparrows, warblers and swallows that normally wheel across New Mexico’s iconic landscapes as they fly south for the winter instead fell lifeless across the land, weakened by extreme conditions. While scientists are still working to conclusively explain this tragedy, their […]