This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb, astronomers searched IC 348 for brown dwarfs, which are less massive than the smallest stars. The researchers discovered brown dwarfs just twice the mass of Jupiter, bringing the
A lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana. The lunar eclipse was visible throughout much of North and South America and part of Europe and Africa between Aug. 27-28. The Full Moon slipped through Earth’s shadow on Aug. 27, continuing into Aug. 28 for some parts of the world, resulting in the lunar eclipse. At
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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: Bagus Kurniawan/NurPhoto via Getty This year’s El Niño weather event is forecast to reach unprecedented strength. It’s also the first strong El Niño to form in the eastern (rather than central) Pacific since the late
In almost 30 countries, energy prospectors are hunting for a potential game changer in the quest to fight global warming. Their quarry is hydrogen gas trapped deep underground in hidden deposits. They hope to find big reservoirs of this geological hydrogen — substantial enough that the gas could become a green replacement for fossil fuels.
Conventional cereals and grains could be grown alongside gene-edited crops under amended EU rules.Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty In June, the European Union overturned its strict limits on the cultivation of gene-edited crops. The change comes in the wake of growing criticism that Europe lags behind other regions when it comes to adopting innovative plant