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Scientists confirm the Sun's charged particles can create water on the Moon. Learn how solar wind interacts with lunar soil.
When a lander's engines fire to slow descent, they generate exhaust plumes capable of creating craters, destabilising the ...
The maker of cryptic block-seeding puzzler Starseed Pilgrim has announced a new game called The End Of Gameplay in which you, ...
It’s a crisp January night at the Heep Center, but graduate student Jess Atkin doesn’t mind. Making her way through the ...
Why is a Los Angeles-based foundation funding soil testing of 1,200 homes for toxic substances such as lead and arsenic in the Palisades and Altadena fire zones? Because federal agencies ...
However, there are times when soil conditions are less than ideal and farmers decide – because of the calendar or insurance or whatever – to move ahead with planting. What then? In this ...
As afternoon rolls around, WasteNot Compost is making the rounds across Chicago one five-gallon green bucket at a time. WasteNot is part of a growing movement nationally, but all of this grew from ...
The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...
Tuesday April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event to focus on the challenges to combat climate change, the plastics crisis, biodiversity loss and much more. Here's how people are marking it.
See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 22, 2025, the moon is 24 days old and is in the Waning Crescent phase of its ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are consumed by pollinators ...
The Earth's axial rotation is perturbed by gravitational interactions with the moon and the more massive ... 11,500 and 5,500 years ago (Figure 2d) (Adkins et al., 2006). A surprising discovery ...