Astronomers have found the most powerful odd radio circle ever detected. Named RAD J131346.9+500320, it lies nearly 8 billion light years away and shows two overlapping rings of radio emission. 🧪🔭🌌✨📡 #Astronomy #Radio #Galaxies #Discovery Paper: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

A new Jurassic fossil from Scotland, Breugnathair elgolensis, shows a combination of snake-like jaws and teeth with a lizard-like body and limbs, providing direct evidence of diverse squamate traits early in their history. #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils 🧪🐍🦴⚒️ Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers have turned human skin cells into early egg-like cells by placing their DNA into donated egg material. When fertilized, some developed into early embryos. This is a proof of concept, not a treatment yet. #IVF #Bioethics 🧪🧬🧫 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NOAA’s ship Rainier spent five days in August 2025 mapping the seafloor of Lituya Bay, Alaska. The team found parts of the bay up to 130 meters shallower than older maps showed, shaped by landslides and glacier movement. #NOAA #Hydrography #Alaska 🧪🏔️🌊⚒️ nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/updates/rain...

Reanalysis of 1978 Pioneer Venus probe data finds Venus' clouds contain water in hydrated minerals, plus iron sulfates and sulfuric acid. Estimates are about 60% water and 15-22% each for the sulfates. #Venus #PlanetaryScience #Atmosphere 🧪 Paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Fungi may have been shaping Earth’s ecosystems far earlier than we thought. New fossil-calibrated timelines show their ancestors branching off between 1.4 and 0.9 billion years ago, long before plants appeared. #Fungi #Evolution #Paleobiology #EarthHistory 🧪🍄🍄‍🟫 Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short-lived gravity anomaly over the eastern Atlantic in 2007, detected by GRACE, points to sudden mass movement at the base of Earth’s mantle, likely from a deep mineral phase change reshaping that boundary #Geophysics #GRACE 🧪⚒️ Paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Researchers have found a way around a key limit of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. By exploiting entangled particles, they can improve precision of one property without violating quantum rules. 🧪⚛️ #QuantumPhysics #Entanglement #ScienceNews #Research www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Astronomers detected a cosmic explosion unlike any seen before: GRB 250702BDE showed repeated gamma-ray bursts over a full day, defying known behaviors of standard explosions. 🧪✨🌌🔭🛰️📡 Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #CosmicMystery #GammaRays #Astrophysics #SpaceEvents

A dogbane flower species, Vincetoxicum nakaianum, mimics the smell of injured ants to lure flies into pollinating it. This is the first known case of floral mimicry using ant-attack odors 🧪🌿🐜 #Botany #Evolution #Plants Source www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/press/109... Paper www.cell.com/current-biol...

Researchers have confirmed that the Silverpit crater beneath the North Sea was created by an asteroid impact over 43 million years ago, revealed by seismic imaging and shock-altered rock #AsteroidImpact #Cosmos 🧪☄️⚒️🌊 Source: www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/sc... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NASA’s Terra satellite captured Iceberg A-23A losing 2/3rds of its area in its final drift northward from Antarctica Once over 4,000 km², it now spans ~1,500 km² and is shedding named fragments A-23G and A-23I 🧪🔭🏔️🧊🌊 #Antarctica #ClimateChange More info: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15482...

A new nova has erupted in the constellation Centaurus, first reported on Sept 22, 2025, at about magnitude 6.0, just visible without a telescope under dark skies. Its brightness may change rapidly in the coming days 🧪✨🌌💥🔭 #astronomy #stargazing #nova #space

A new study shows that the ability to produce psilocybin evolved twice in mushrooms, arising independently in distantly related lineages. That repeated innovation might hint at a deeper ecological purpose Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Evolution #Biochemistry #Psychedelics 🧪🧬🧫🍄‍🟫

Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu eruption (Episode 33) began Sept 19, 3:11 a.m. HST, with fountains >500 ft; gases drift SW Updates from USGS volcanos: www.facebook.com/share/p/1725... Cam1 www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S... (down) Cam2 www.youtube.com/live/fiyttmA... Cam3 www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd... 🧪🌋⚒️

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN), discovered Sept 12 by SOHO/SWAN, is brightening with a 2.5° tail. Best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but may be visible from northern skies near Mars after sunset. #Comet #Astronomy #NightSky #Skywatching apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25091... 🧪🔭☄️

Sunset's Guard, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 2025 Photo credit Kenneth Becker #photography #field #landscape #sunset #evening #alaska

Scientists report the world’s oldest mummies in Southeast Asia, bodies smoke-dried and crouch-buried up to 12,000 years ago. www.sciencenews.org/article/olde... phys.org/news/2025-09... Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #Archaeology #Anthropology #SoutheastAsia ⚒️🧪

Early JWST images revealed faint red dots in the young universe, and a new study suggests many may be black hole stars, huge gas clouds surrounding supermassive black holes instead of galaxies. 🧪🌌🔭✨ Paper: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... #JWST #BlackHoles #Cosmology #Astronomy

NASA’s Perseverance rover sampled a rock called “Cheyava Falls” and found “leopard-spot” mineral patterns and organic carbon in it, inside Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel Formation. This could be the strongest potential biosignature yet on Mars. #Mars #Perseverance #Biosignature #Astrobiology #NASA 🧪⚒️

CU Boulder physicists built the first visible time crystal. Using liquid crystals lit in glass cells, molecules create swirling patterns that repeat like a clock. The effect lasts for hours and can be seen without instruments 🧪⚛️ #TimeCrystals #MaterialsScience Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NASA’s InSight lander confirmed Mars holds a solid inner core inside a molten outer one, showing the planet’s structure is more Earth-like than once thought #Mars #InSight #Seismology 🧪⚒️ Paper/Nature article (institutional access only) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Astronomers with the Green Bank Telescope recently found the Midpoint Cloud, a 200-light-year molecular cloud hidden in the Milky Way’s bar. It contains turbulent gas, star-forming clumps, and a new maser. 🔭🌌✨🧪 #Astronomy #MilkyWay #StarFormation #RadioAstronomy

Denali, Denali View South, Parks Highway, Alaska August 2025 Photo credit Kenneth Becker #photography #denali #mountain #alaska 📷🗻

Winter Descends, Alaska Range, August 2025 Photo credit Kenneth Becker #photography #snow #mountains #landscape #alaska #wild 📷⛰️🏔️🗻🌲

This is a different post from normal for me: For those of you who knew her in the seismology community, I'm saddened to inform you of the passing of Natalia Pavlovna (Natasha) Kozyreva. She was a leading researcher in seismology and a great influence in my life. Legacy.com page below: 🧪⚒️

Seismic data reveal a tectonic plate breaking apart beneath the Atlantic near Portugal. This marks the first direct observation of oceanic plate delamination. 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Geology #PlateTectonics #Seismology #EarthScience

Astronomers found the earliest confirmed black hole in galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, 500M years after the Big Bang. At 300M solar masses, it challenges how fast such giants can form #JWST #BlackHoles #Cosmology 🧪🔭🌌 Paper 1: arxiv.org/abs/2508.21748 Paper 2: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22567

Here is the direct link to the new USGS map. Try it out on your phone/tablet and see how it works! #usgs #geologicmap #naturalresources #cartography 🧪⚒️🗺️

USGS released the Cooperative National Geologic Map, the first nationwide map with layered geologic data. It merges 100+ maps into analysis-ready layers for the lower 48 and can be explored on smartphones for easy field access. 🧪🗺️🧭⚒️ #USGS #Maps #NaturalResources www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

NASA's InSight data show Mars' mantle holds ancient impact debris up to 2.5 miles (4 km) across. These preserved fragments point to a sluggish, unmixed interior and reveal how colossal early impacts shaped the planet. #Mars #InSight #Seismology #PlanetaryScience 🧪🔭🛰️ www.nasa.gov/missions/ins...

Astronomers traced the brightest fast radio burst ever seen, FRB 20250316A, to a pinpoint in galaxy NGC 4141, 130Mly away, using CHIME’s new Outriggers. JWST spotted a faint source nearby. #FRB #CHIME #JWST 🧪🔭✨🛰️ Source: cfa.harvard.edu/news/origin-... www.space.com/astronomy/br...

Rubidescent Ashyra, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 2025 Photo credit Kenneth Becker 📷 #photography #fire #embers #ruby #coals

AVO Spurr update 8/20/25 Mount Spurr has been lowered to NORMAL/GREEN. Magma movement that began in 2024 has stopped, reducing eruption risk to extremely low. Minor quakes and gas release continue, but hazards persist in the crater. #Alaska #USGS 🧪⚒️🌋 avo.alaska.edu/news/hans/DO...

More info on the Tracy Arm landslide/tsunami from the Alaska Earthquake Center AEC Facebook post www.facebook.com/share/p/19GF... AEC page earthquake.alaska.edu 🧪⚒️🌊 #alaska #landslide #TracyArm #tsunami #alaskaearthquakecenter #AEC

From AEC's Facebook: "...We've taken seismic data from both the early events and the big landslide, sped them up and turned them into sound. Give it a listen" youtu.be/8_DZqYrlp4A 🧪⚒️🌊 #alaska #tsunami #landslide

Check out these photos of the Tracy Arm Landslide to help get an idea of just how big it is. 📷 © Jacek Maselko and posted by AEC, taken at 3,500ft elevation on Tuesday, August 12th. AEC page earthquake.alaska.edu AEC Facebook post www.facebook.com/share/1Fzmxn... 🧪⚒️🌊 #alaska #tsunami #landslide

From the Alaska Earthquake Center: Michael West gives a virtual tour of the Tracy Arm Landslide with video provided by the US Coast Guard. AEC Facebook post www.facebook.com/share/1BANHY... AEC pages earthquake.alaska.edu www.facebook.com/AKearthquake ⚒️🧪🌊 #Tsunami #Landside #Alaska #TracyArm

A tsunami-causing landslide in Southeast Alaska early Sunday ranks as the region’s largest in over a decade. Waves reached 15 ft in Endicott Arm, and although no injuries were reported, authorities urge caution in fjord areas. #Alaska #Landslide #Tsunami 🧪⚒️🌊 www.gi.alaska.edu/news/tsunami...

A massive landslide struck Endicott Arm in Southeast Alaska early Sunday, triggering a tsunami with waves reaching 15 ft. No major damage reported, but nearby kayakers were affected. Here is the report from the Alaska Earthquake Center 🧪⚒️🌊 #Alaska #Landslide #EarthScience

AEC shared this video, courtesy of LT Chip Baucom and CDR PJ Johansen, U.S. Coast Guard. It shows the landslide that collapsed onto South Sawyer Glacier and Tracy Arm Fjord, about 60 miles southeast of Juneau. More information to follow www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ccc... earthquake.alaska.edu 🧪⚒️🌊

A meteorite that penetrated a Georgia home has been classified by UGA researchers as a 4.56-billion-year-old ordinary chondrite, predating Earth. Named the McDonough Meteorite, it offers insight into solar-system history. 🧪☄️🔭 #meteorite #planetaryscience #UGA #space news.uga.edu/uga-names-ne...

The Perseid meteor shower will reach peak activity late this week. Observers are encouraged to consult the meteor-shower calendar for optimal viewing windows and planning. Calendar: www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showe... 🔭☄️🧪 #Perseids #astronomy #meteors #stargazing

Laboratory simulations recreate interstellar icy conditions to show hydrogen sulfide converts into polysulfanes and octasulfur on dust grains, offering a compelling resolution to sulfur depletion in molecular clouds. 🧪🔭 #astrochemistry #sulfur #interstellar Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JWST observations uncover hundreds of unusually bright early-universe galaxy candidates. These challenge existing models, suggesting more energetic star formation or alternative cosmologies such as early dark energy may help explain their prevalence. 🧪🔭 Paper iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #JWST

A small tsunami in Southeast Alaska in the Endicott Arm area was triggered by a landslide this morning. The Alaska Earthquake Center is working on locating the exact location of the landslide. earthquake.alaska.edu/what-it-take... www.facebook.com/AKearthquake 🧪⚒️🌊 #alaska #landslide #tsunami

Nightlight, Fairbanks, Alaska, May 2025 Photo credit Kenneth Becker #photography #field #alaska #sunset #clouds

A black hole from just 500M years after the Big Bang has been confirmed. Detected by JWST in galaxy CAPERS‑LRD‑z9, it challenges how such massive objects could grow so early. Formation theories may need to evolve #JWST #BlackHoles #CosmicDawn #Astrophysics 🧪🔭 Paper iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

USGS is tracking glacial outburst floods from Suicide Basin above Juneau. As Mendenhall Glacier thins, these sudden floods worsen. Use the following links to track the basin levels. 🧪⚒️🌊🧊🏔️ #AlaskaFloods #ClimateMonitoring #USGSData www.juneauflood.com#/suicide-basin www.weather.gov/ajk/suicideb...

Kīlauea Episode 30 erupts with twin lava fountains early August 6 HST. Cam 1: www.youtube.com/live/sTXKIz2... Cam 2: www.youtube.com/live/fiyttmA... Cam 3: www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd... Eruption updates: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki... Eruption info: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki... 🧪🌋⚒️⚠️