NASA astronauts make space ‘cake’ to celebrate new crew members – Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

It’s not known whether “Ulysses 31” was on Christopher Nolan’s radar in his teenage years, but it’s intriguing to think it could have influenced the director’s decision to take on Homer’s “The Odyssey”. This animated space opera, a French/Japanese co-production, delivered a crash course in Greek mythology to a generation of kids who grew up…

A previously recorded slowdown in Arctic sea ice decline has ended, according to a new study, with the largest year-to-year wintertime reduction ever recorded. In a study published last summer, researchers found that melting sea ice in the Arctic had slowed down over the past 20 years, with no statistically significant decline in its extent…

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life inside a meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey home two years ago. The space rock contains amino acids, carbon compounds and other “prebiotic” molecules similar to what may have helped kick-start life on our planet, a new study shows. Scientists on the study team — led…

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Millions of people tackle Wordle every day, trying to uncover a hidden five-letter word in the New York Times’ wildly popular puzzle game. Now, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, say they have developed a mathematical approach that can solve Wordle with a remarkable 99% success rate. The goal of Wordle is…