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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal is badly compromised. Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, happens on a massive scale and is growing quickly. In fact, though the number of scientific articles doubles every 15 …

Bee balm is one of the best perennials you can add to your flower beds if you want to enjoy seeing lots of butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds visiting your borders. A key part of annual maintenance is cutting back bee balm, but when is the best time to do this? There are benefits to consider from taking time to cut …

Update for Aug. 7: NASA and SpaceX have delayed the return of Crew-10 due to weather concerns. “NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Thursday undocking opportunity of the Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station due to high winds forecasted for the splashdown locations off the coast of California,” the agency wrote in a statement. SpaceX and the …

After 50 Years, a Neutrino Detector Finally Catches Elusive Ghost Particles  SciTechDaily Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering  Nature Miniature Neutrino Detector Promises to Test the Laws of Physics  Scientific American New method for detecting neutrinos  EurekAlert! Scientists Succeed In Capturing Elusive “Ghost Particles” Escaping Nuclear Reactor  IFLScience Source link

As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Reporting in Nature Communications: Earth & Environment, …

SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings, containing 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, rolls out of Amazon’s payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility on Monday, Aug. 5, 2025. The satellites will launch on the KF-02 mission, the second Falcon 9 flight carrying these broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. Image: Amazon Amazon is back at the launch …

If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered. A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin College of Engineering in the US has calculated not just how likely it is that an asteroid will hit Earth during an …

Science & Exploration 06/08/2025 1106 views 37 likes In its latest postcard from Mars, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express returns to Acheron Fossae: a dramatic network of chasms carved into the surface of the Red Planet. Context map of Acheron Fossae on Mars In April, we highlighted the eastern end of the Acheron Fossae region of Mars – an …

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