Saturday, June 24, residents and tourists may see automobiles and motorcycles with heat sensors. NOAA will use citizen scientists to map heat islands worldwide. Morning, midday, and evening heat and humidity will be measured. Sedona is one of 18 cities studied this year. NOAA has mapped heat islands in 70 localities in the U.S. and other nations over seven years. Morgan Zabow, NOAA community heat and health information coordinator, was curious about urban heat island temperatures. Zabow said tall buildings, asphalt, and less natural spaces make cities warmer than undeveloped places. She stated urban heat islands might be 15–20 degrees hotter than rural, forested regions. Sedona has 10,000 residents and 3 million tourists every year. Zabow said visitors lack heat sensi...

Science's greatest mystery is whether we're alone in the cosmos. NASA and other space organizations seek for extraterrestrial life. NASA's SWIM (Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers) mission idea seeks to find life on ocean worlds including Enceladus, Europa, and Titan. These faraway planets have liquid seas under miles of frozen crust, making them ideal for extraterrestrial life. NASA is developing and refining ocean-access mission ideas, notably the SESAME class of thermo-mechanical drilling robots, to explore these underwater worlds. SWIM, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory idea, will greatly enhance SESAME's capacity to discover biomarkers, habitability, and maybe life in these mysterious alien ocean worlds. https://twitter.com/NASA_Technology/status/1672318101956730902 ...

In recent times, it seems as though there is a mind-blowing piece of scientific news published every other day, all of which has completely blown our small little minds. First, there was the finding of a scary black hole that was aiming directly at us; secondly, there was the discovery of a large hole found in the sun; and last, there was the discovery of a vanished continent that had been absent for more than three hundred and seventy-five years. People are just now coming to the conclusion that there is a large ocean buried beneath the surface of the Earth's crust. It has been discovered that a massive amount of water has been preserved in rock known as 'ringwoodite' for a distance of around 400 miles underground. The Earth's crust contains a massive ocean with more water th...

The search for the lost OceanGate Titan submarine, which descended to the Titanic debris, dominated the news this week. Tragically, the U.S. Coast Guard verified that wreckage recovered near the sunken ocean liner was part of the missing sub and that it experienced a "catastrophic implosion," killing five sailors. This week, science exercised your brain cells elsewhere. The exciting discovery of an exotic new state of matter made of excitons; extraordinary research on the cosmological constant problem, which suggests the expansion of the universe may be an illusion; and the discovery that your brain is filled with mysterious spiral signals that may be key to cognition. The world's oldest penis decoration is 42,000 years old, while Asia's tallest tree is 335 feet (102 meters). ...