An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence
More than a trillion noisy, inch-long cicadas are set to emerge from underground this spring to embark on the final leg of their lifetimes, in a massive co-emergence that hasn’t been seen in more than 200 years.
Cicadas that are part of both a 13-year and a 17-year brood will emerge at the same time this spring. It will be the first time since 1803—when Thomas Jefferson was President—that these particular broods simultaneously tunnel up from their burrows to find a mate and make way for the next generation of cicadas.
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Cicadas will be visible in a numbe...
Source: TIME: Science - April 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Solcyré Burga and Lon Tweeten Tags: Uncategorized Explainer News Desk Source Type: news
How Cloud Seeding Works and Why It ’s Wrongly Blamed for Floods From Dubai to California
In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it.
United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the National Center of Meteorology dispatched planes to inject chemicals into the clouds to try to coax some showering.
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But this time they got much more than they wanted. Dubai faced torrential downpours on Tuesday, with flooding shutting down much of the city, including schools and its major airport—killing at least one man whose car was swept away as well as a...
Source: TIME: Science - April 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Koh Ewe Tags: Uncategorized climate change News Desk overnight Source Type: news
NASA Confirms It Was Space Debris That Crashed Through Roof of Florida Family ’s Home
The risk of being injured by falling space debris is supposedly “under 1 in 100 billion,” according to the European Space Agency (ESA), but for one family in Naples, it came very close after a piece of junk from the International Space Station (ISS) tore through their roof last month.
“I was shaking. I was completely in disbelief. What are the chances of something landing on my house with such force to cause so much damage,” Alejandro Otero, who resided in the home with the rest of his family, told Southwest Florida TV channel WINK. “I’m super grateful that nobody got hurt.”
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Source: TIME: Science - April 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Chad de Guzman Tags: Uncategorized News Desk overnight Source Type: news
More Than a Trillion Cicadas Are Coming. Are You Ready?
Cicadas spend the vast majority of their lifetime—more than 90%—underground. But this spring, two broods of more than a trillion cicadas will make their debut above the soil across the Midwest and Southeast in an event that has not happened in more than two centuries.
“When these emerge, it really is a unique, natural phenomenon,” says PJ Liesch, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, who compares the insects’ emergence to that of Monday’s total solar eclipse. “If you think about your entire lifetime, you might only have a few opportunit...
Source: TIME: Science - April 12, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Solcyré Burga Tags: Uncategorized News Desk Source Type: news
EPA Imposes Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set its first-ever national, legally enforceable limits on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” in drinking water on Wednesday.
PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are chemicals widely used in consumer and industrial products to repel oil and resist heat since the 1940s. They break down very slowly and can build up in people, animals, food, and water and may lead to adverse health effects including decreased fertility, development delays, increased risk of cancer, and more, according to the EPA.
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Source: TIME: Science - April 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Mallory Moench Tags: Uncategorized News News Desk News desk edits Source Type: news
Missed Out or Want More? Here Are the Next Solar Eclipses to Look Out For
Whether you saw the moon completely block the sun, were foiled by cloudy weather or weren’t along the path of Monday’s total solar eclipse, there are still more chances to catch a glimpse.
Here’s what to know about upcoming solar spectacles:
When is the next total solar eclipse?
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Total solar eclipses happen about every year or two or three, due to a precise alignment of the sun, moon and Earth. They can occur anywhere across the globe, usually in remote areas like the South Pacific.
Read More: What the World Has Learned From Past Eclipses
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Source: TIME: Science - April 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Adithi Ramakrishnan / AP Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse News Desk overnight wire Source Type: news
The Bliss of Seeing the Eclipse From Cleveland
The best outfit of the day was worn by a man in an astronaut’s jumpsuit done up in Cleveland Browns orange, with the word “Brownstronaut” across the back.
The best animal of the day was the perfect bald eagle at Cleveland’s Museum of Natural History, roosting high in his enclosure, taking in the morning sunlight and warmth, heedless of the fact that the source of that light would, before the afternoon was out, be obscured.
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The best quote of the day came from my 21-year-old, Paloma, as we gathered with thousands of others on the lawn of the Great La...
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news
What to Do with Your Solar Eclipse Glasses After the Eclipse
More than 31 million people who live in the roughly 115-mile wide path of totality, and millions more who traveled to the U.S. to see Monday’s total solar eclipse, will all be gazing at the sun wearing the same thing: solar eclipse glasses.
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The highly-coveted item is important for eye safety, especially for those who live outside of the zone of totality and can only see a partial eclipse. But after the eclipse is done, people should be sure to dispose of their eclipse-viewing lenses properly.
Because most eclipse glasses are made out of cardboard, the ar...
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Solcyré Burga Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse News Desk storyladder Source Type: news
See Today ’ s Total Solar Eclipse in Photos
Crowds are gathering across the U.S. in preparation for today’s total solar eclipse, an event expected to draw millions of viewers across the U.S. Viewing sites are being set up across the path of totality—including one along Niagara Falls State Park, a special “eclipse flight” traveling through the eclipse’s path, and a mass wedding scheduled to take place in Russellville, Ark. just minutes before totality.
The solar eclipse has begun to move across North America, with Mexico and large parts of Texas having witnessed totality early this afternoon. By the end of the afternoon, the eclipse w...
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Simmone Shah Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse News Desk storyladder Source Type: news
Watch: The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Watch TIME’s livestream as we trace the solar eclipse’s path of totality across North America. (Source: TIME: Science)
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: TIME Video Tags: Uncategorized video Source Type: news
Watch Live: The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Watch TIME’s livestream as we trace the solar eclipse’s path of totality across North America. (Source: TIME: Science)
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: TIME Video Tags: Uncategorized video Source Type: news
Here Are the Five Stages of Today ’ s Total Solar Eclipse
Today’s solar eclipse will plunge large swaths of the U.S. into near total darkness as 15 states witness the sun completely cover the moon.
It will enter the U.S. in Texas and exit in Maine, passing through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and parts of Tennessee and Michigan. Millions of people are expected to watch the event, which is the last time a total solar eclipse will be visible in the contiguous United States until 2044.
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There are five major stages of the eclipse that star...
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Simmone Shah Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse News Desk storyladder Source Type: news
What the World Has Learned From Past Eclipses
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Clouds scudded over the small volcanic island of Principe, off the western coast of Africa, on the afternoon of May 29, 1919. Arthur Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory in the U.K., waited for the Sun to emerge. The remains of a morning thunderstorm could ruin everything.
The island was about to experience the rare and overwhelming sight of a total solar eclipse. For six minutes, the longest eclipse since 1416, the Moon would completely block the face of the Sun, pulling a curtain of darkness over a thin stripe of Earth. Eddington traveled into the eclipse p...
Source: TIME: Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Boyle Tags: Uncategorized freelance Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news
What Time to See the Solar Eclipse Broken Down by State
Tens of millions of people live in the path of the highly-anticipated total solar eclipse passing through the U.S. on Monday, April 8, with others planning to travel to see it.
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The total eclipse, during which the moon passes between Earth and the sun and blocks the face of the sun, will enter the country in Texas before passing through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported.
Slivers of Tennessee and Michigan wil...
Source: TIME: Science - April 7, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Mallory Moench Tags: Uncategorized News Desk Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news
Here ’ s What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From Space
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Few people get a better view of the Earth than those who are actually off the Earth—astronauts who can look down on our planet from above. They are the lucky handful who get to experience the so-called overview effect—the transcendent sense of seeing the world as the fragile biosphere it is, set against the blackness of space. But when it comes to witnessing a solar eclipse, the astronauts don’t have it so good, with a phenomenon that is flat-out eye popping when witnessed from the surface of our world, appearing dark, unsettling, and even a little ugly fro...
Source: TIME: Science - April 7, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse healthscienceclimate Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news
