Author: Mary Adams

The first official results of the Insight mission, published by NASA, confirm that Mars is seismically active. But it’s a different seismicity from Earth. After just over 480 million kilometers traveled, the American probe Insight successfully landed on Monday, November 26, 2018 on the surface of Mars. The real heart of this mission was to […]

Within days, a team of biologists had identified fewer than 55 blue whales in the coastal waters around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia (UK). Unheard of since the end of the commercial hunt. Decimated at the start of the last century, blue whales then took advantage of the ban on their capture in 1966 […]

Spain and part of southern France have experienced a very significant weather phenomenon in recent days. Two departments were placed on meteorological red alert and several deaths were deplored in Spain. The storm caused heavy gusts and unleashed the sea, generating waves up to 14 meters high in places, torrential rain and an invasion of […]

NASA is exploring new technologies to build mushroom houses. These types of structures could be a sustainable solution to generate homes on Earth as well as on Mars and other planets. Yes, that sounds so futuristic, like living on other planets today seems to be getting closer. Proof of this are the advances and investigations […]

Research suggests that some volcanoes on Venus may still be active today. Eruptions could even have occurred just a few days ago. Besides Earth, Io (Jupiter’s moon) is the only known object in the solar system to host active volcanoes. However, there are indications that Venus may also be affected. It would not be so […]

Researchers studied small T-Rex fossils and finally concluded that they were young dinosaurs. It all started in 1946 with the discovery of the skull of a small T-Rex in the Hell Creek formation, in Montana (United States). Some believed it to be a previously unknown pygmy species and others argued that it was a young […]

A team of astronomers announces the discovery of a rocky exoplanet in our cosmic quarter, just 66 light years from Earth. More than 24 years after 51 Pegasi B, the first extrasolar world discovered and confirmed in 1995, our cosmic address book now has more than 4,100 exoplanets. However, the vast majority are gas or […]

The rapid increase in CO2 levels in the air threatens to severely degrade the cognitive abilities of students in the classroom. Results recently presented at the American Geophysical Union Meeting and which extend those obtained by previous work. In particular, they invite to take a more serious interest in this direct effect of CO2 in […]

Everyone admitted, nations have failed to make serious climate commitments. Between disappointment and anger, observers believe that this is a totally missed opportunity, an important missed opportunity to display the ambition to respond to the climate crisis. A bitter-tasting COP25 COP25, whose slogan was “Time for Action”, took place from December 2 to 13 in […]