John Chater tastes a pomegranate at a research field site in California. (Courtesy UC-Riverside)
There’s a lot more to pomegranates than their reputation in the U.S. would suggest. The fruits are known for their bittersweet juice, hard seeds, and their exploding-puzzle-box configuration that can leave kitchens looking like crime scenes.
Around the world, pomegranates take on many different forms. They can be sweeter, softer, or come in different flavors and colors: pink, yellow, or even ...read more
Copernicus Sentinel-2B image of Öræfajökull in Iceland, seen in 2017. ESA-Antti Lipponen.
Over the past few days, news out of Iceland is that Öræfajökull, one of Iceland’s largest and most powerful volcanoes, is getting restless. The volcano is “accumulating magma” and an eruption was coming! It sounds bleak, doesn’t it? The volcano that produced the island’s largest known explosive eruption is showing signs that 291 years of relativ ...read more
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John Carpenter’s iconic horror film “Halloween” celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Few horror movies have achieved similar notoriety, and it’s credited with kicking off the steady stream of slasher flicks that followed.
Audiences flocked to theaters to witness the seemingly random murder and mayhem a masked man brought to a small suburban town, reminding them that picket fences and manicured lawns cannot protect us from the un ...read more
This New Years, the New Horizons spacecraft will make a historic flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper belt object. Leading up to the flyby, scientists are collecting incredible data from the craft. (Credit: NASA)
This New Year’s, the New Horizons spacecraft will make a historic flyby of Ultima Thule — an ancient Kuiper belt object (KBO) located on the far edge of our solar system.
In the summer of 2015, New Horizons completed a flyby of Pluto and its moons, stretching the human reach fa ...read more
After the two successful touchdown rehearsals and data collected with landers and rovers, scientists know just how difficult it will be to touchdown successfully on Ryugu’s surface. (Image Credit: JAXA)
Hayabusa2’s close encounter with the asteroid Ryugu continues to amaze and surprise. Its two successful touchdown rehearsals have given scientists remarkable up-close looks at the asteroid’s surface, giving the spacecraft its best shot at a successful touchdown in 2019.At a pr ...read more
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