Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker. But this common metaphor is misleading, according to a 2024 meta-analytic review. Researchers at Ohio State University analyzed 154 studies on anger and found little evidence that venting helps. In some cases,
NASA and contractor engineers pumped more than 750,000 gallons of supercold propellants into the agency’s huge Space Launch System rocket Thursday without any signs of hydrogen leaks in a major step toward launching four astronauts on a flight around the moon as early as March 6. The practice countdown began Tuesday night, kicking off a carefully choreographed
The first of two 2026 lunar eclipses will occur on March 3. The total eclipse will cast a red tint as the moon falls into Earth’s shadow. Utah observers will be in prime viewing area, weather permitting. While only a handful of Antarctic scientists were in the right spot for prime viewing of a stunning
Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (artist’s impression) is a giant among viruses, both in physical size and because of the size of its genome. Credit: Nanoclustering/Science Photo Library Scientists report that a type of giant virus multiplies furiously by hijacking its host’s protein-making machinery1 — long-sought experimental evidence that viruses can co-opt a system typically associated with
Science & Exploration 19/02/2026 1470 views 15 likes For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec instrument, the team observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, detecting
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA took another crack at fueling its giant moon rocket Thursday after leaks halted the initial dress rehearsal and delayed the first lunar trip by astronauts in more than half a century. For the second time this month, launch teams pumped more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million liters) of supercold
While many theories have suggested that comets and asteroids brought water to Earth after its formation, a new study proposes a bold alternative: Earth’s core might be storing the equivalent of 45 oceans of water as hydrogen. The study, led by Motohiko Murakami at ETH Zurich, offers a novel look into the conditions of the
Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis – meaning ‘astonishing’ Spinosaurus in Latin – the giant lived in what is now Niger more than 95 million years ago, far from the coastal regions where similar fish-hunting dinosaurs are usually found. As long as
All galaxies are dominated by dark matter, an invisible “stuff” that outweighs all of the matter comprising stars, planets, and moons by around five to one. But in some galaxies, dark matter takes this domination to the extreme. Using the Hubble Space Telescope along with the Euclid Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to
This view from the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shows Boeing’s Starliner docked to the International Space Station on July 3, 2024. NASA hide caption toggle caption NASA NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is blaming Boeing and his own agency for botching a test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, designed to take astronauts to and from the