BGRFish Newly-discovered fossilized school of fish is like a snapshot in timebgr.com - Mike Wehner Finding a single fossil of an animal that died some 50 million years ago is cool. Finding two? That’s just plain awesome. But what about finding 259 …
BGRGalaxies Astronomers spot dozens of stars that have been evicted from their homesbgr.com - Mike Wehner We often think of stars as things that don’t move around much, but in some galaxies, that’s far from a universal truth. New observations made by …
BGRJames Webb Space Telescope NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes another step towards completionbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is late to its own party, and it’s not just a little bit late. NASA originally planned to have the spacecraft ready …
BGRNASA NASA’s Curiosity just stumbled upon evidence of an ancient Martian lakebgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing critical insights into what Mars may have been like long ago, and one of its latest discoveries helps support the …
BGREnergy Drinks Study finds that energy drinks may seriously mess with your heartbgr.com - Mike Wehner In a world where working longer and longer hours is becoming the norm, products that keep us awake and alert have rapidly become must-haves for …
BGRPlanets A planet that shouldn’t exist was just found orbiting a distant starbgr.com - Mike Wehner When astronomers search for exoplanets they rarely know what they’re going to find, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t rules that would-be planets …
BGRBiology Scientists suggest a nearby supernova may have prompted human ancestors to walk uprightbgr.com - Mike Wehner For scientists studying the history of human evolution, determining when certain changes happened and what may have prompted those changes are very …
BGRPlay buttonRussia Russian cosmonauts are conducting a spacewalk right now, and you can watch it livebgr.com - Mike Wehner The International Space Station is one of the most important scientific laboratories on (or around) Earth, and it’s home to travelers from the United …
BGR ‘MOONRISE’ project will use lasers to melt Moon dustbgr.com - Mike Wehner Building a structure anywhere other than Earth is something that has never been done before… at least by mankind. We all like to imagine a colony of …
BGRSpaceX The mysterious SpaceX Crew Dragon explosion is still being investigatedbgr.com - Mike Wehner SpaceX has been on a real hot streak as of late, with many successful missions and firsts, like the successful docking of its Crew Dragon capsule to …
BGRThe Workplace Feeling ‘burned out’ is now an official medical diagnosisbgr.com - Mike Wehner Do you ever just feel totally burned out? I don’t mean the run-of-the-mill exhausted feeling we all endure from time to time, I mean really, really …
BGRMalaysia Malaysia would very much like the United States to stop sending it boxes of trashbgr.com - Mike Wehner If a package showed up at your doorstep containing nothing more than garbage you’d probably demand to know where it came from and, once you figured …
BGRPlay buttonNASA NASA just released a hype video for a Moon mission that probably won’t happenbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA has planned on returning to the Moon for some time now, hashing out plans for its Lunar Gateway which will eventually serve as a jumping-off …
BGRScience Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is lashing out as it diesbgr.com - Mike Wehner Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the most iconic features of any planet in our Solar System. The colossal, swirling storm has dominated Jupiter for …
BGRStarlink Watch dozens of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites speeding through the night skybgr.com - Mike Wehner Last week, SpaceX successfully launched its very first satellite-packed Starlink mission, with dozens of the tiny communications devices traveling to …
BGRShark Attacks Man swimming off Hawaii coast killed in shark attackbgr.com - Mike Wehner A 65-year-old man swimming off the coast of Maui on Saturday morning is now dead after an encounter with a shark. Thomas Smiley, who CNN reports was …
BGRClimbing Climber who warned of Everest overcrowding perishes during descentbgr.com - Mike Wehner Climbing Mt. Everest used to be something that very few people even considered, much less attempted. Today, things are a bit different, and at any …
BGRScience Three cases of potentially deadly rat lungworm infections confirmed in Hawaiibgr.com - Mike Wehner Health officials have now confirmed a total of three cases of rat lungworm disease in travelers who spent time in Hawaii. A report from the Hawaii …
BGRNASA NASA sent a helicopter on a nosedive to test Mars landing hardwarebgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Mars 2020 mission could teach us some incredible new things about our planetary neighbor, and even provide us with valuable insights that will …
BGRNovartis The FDA just approved a baby-saving drug that carries an obscene $2.1 million price tagbgr.com - Mike Wehner You can’t put a price on life, but that isn’t stopping Swiss drugmaker Novartis from trying. The company just scored approval from the U.S. Food and …
BGRBoston, MA Boston man says someone broke into his house, cleaned it, then leftbgr.com - Mike Wehner Discovering that someone had broken into your home while you were away is a terrifying thing. What did they want? What did they break, rummage …
BGRPlay buttonBees The world’s smallest McDonald’s just opened, but only bees are invitedbgr.com - Mike Wehner If you’re looking for a McDonald’s restaurant in Sweden, you just gained another option. A first-of-its-kind McDonald’s location was recently built …
BGRNASA NASA places its first order for Lunar Gateway componentsbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA has big plans for returning to the Moon. Whether it can be done within the next five years, as the current administration desires, is yet to be …
BGREast Africa The largest underwater eruption ever detected produced a brand new underwater volcanobgr.com - Mike Wehner Months ago, a bizarre hum rippled through the waters far off the coast of Africa, traveling around the world and drawing the attention of scientists …
BGRPlanetary Habitability NASA’s Kepler just spotted 18 new Earth-sized planets, but only one is worth dreaming aboutbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that the wealth of data it gathered doesn’t still hold some untold surprises. A new …
BGRFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFungi Discovery of one billion year old fungi changes our understanding of life on Earthbgr.com - Mike Wehner When scientists search for species that lived hundreds of millions of years ago they’re not always just looking for ancient animals. Life on Earth …
BGRNASA NASA needs your help to bring an asteroid sample back to Earthbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has already accomplished a lot since arriving at the space rock known as Bennu late last year. The spacecraft successfully …
BGRFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPlay buttonNASA NASA will reveal plans for its ‘Lunar Gateway’ today, and you can watch livebgr.com - Mike Wehner Despite plenty of skepticism over whether or not they can pull it off, NASA seems determined to make it back to the Moon by 2024 — or at least that’s …
BGRBirds Scientists studied baby shark vomit and realized they eat a ton of birdsbgr.com - Mike Wehner When you think of the diet of a shark you probably don’t imagine the top-tier ocean predators feasting on birds — and not sea birds, but the kinds of …
