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 E-Mail IMAGE: Smoking gun: After the supermassive black hole tore the star apart, roughly half of the star debris was flung back out into space, while the remainder formed a glowing accretion... view more  Credit: Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Tracing back a ghostly particle to a shredded star, scientists have uncovered a gigantic cosmic particle accelerator. The subatomic particle, called a neutrino, was hurled towards Earth after the doomed star came too close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of its home galaxy and was ripped apart by the black hole's coloss...

Counting on Seals By Michael Lucibella, Photo Credit: Kaitlin Macdonald The 2020 seal team field crew. From left to right, Kaitlin Macdonald, Parker Levinson and Will McDonald. Fewer researchers and support staff traveled to Antarctica in 2020 to reduce the risk of introducing the virus to the continent. One of the few science teams that did go is working on the long-term study of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound. "We're trying to understand how things mothers do for their offspring might help those pups do better or do worse later in life," said Jay Rotella, an ecologist at Montana State Univ...

The World’s Most Remote Airports Advertisement: Flying is almost always an adventure. However, to get on a plane to destinations otherwise unreachable but for days on end crossing the ocean on a ship is something truly special. Let’s take a look at where some of the world’s most remote runways are located. LATAM operates a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to the world’s most remote airport. Photo: Vincenzo Pace | JFKJets.com Mataveri International Airport, Rapa Nui Defined by the distance from another airport, the world’s most remote airfield is Mataveri International Airport – also known as...

Icebreakers, zodiacs, elephant seals: Antarctic science and life as a marine technician Event Location:  Event has passed Joee Patterson, marine technician, assisted scientists on an ice floe. (Photo courtesy Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge) Portrait of Emperor Penguins with research vessel Nathaniel B Palmer near Thwaites Glacier. (Photo courtesy Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge) View from the ship in the Antarctica. (Photo courtesy Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge) View from the icebreaker in the Antarctica. (Pho...

As reported by AP, the Chilean Army on Monday said that 36 people at the Gen Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base have tested positive. On Tuesday, the health minister for the Biobio region in Chile said 21 COVID-19 cases were found aboard the Chilean navy's Sergeant Aldea supply vessel. One more case was reported in Las Estrellas village. Details 208 crew members quarantined on the ship According to Chile's Army, the first group of 36 people includes 26 members of the military and 10 civilians who are employees of a maintenance contract company. The Army added that none had shown comp...