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The trooper was fatally shot while answering reports of an active shooter at a Wilmington DMV; the suspect was also confirmed deceased
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/sVxweXHiKxA?start=44&feature=oembed Scientists have long thought that a quarter of all life on Earth lives in the soil beneath our feet. The organisms, including bacteria, store carbon, and greenhouse gases. Now new findings are radically changing that idea.Instead of just a quarter of all life, the real percentage could be waaaay higher.
In a new study, The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) estimates that 70 percent of Earth’s bacteria and archaea, single-celled microorganisms, live beneath our feet in a massive biosphere. And we aren’t talking just a few feet or even twenty feet. We’re talking up to five miles at the very least, but possibly much further down. That’s roughly 2 to 2.3 billion cubic kilometers (roughly 480 to 551 million cubic miles) in size. That equates to twice the volume of all of Earth’s oceans. The microorganisms are teeming deep down, not just near the surface, but miles down, where there is no light, extreme temperatures as high as 251.6 Fahrenheit, intense pressure, and few sources of energy. A massive biosphere exists, far outnumbering the life living on the surface. This biosphere has remained pristine and untouched by humans, but new drilling techniques allow samples from boreholes as far down as 5 kilometers. That, along with new powerful microscopes, allow scientists to detect lifeforms where we never knew they existed before.
In a recent article from The Guardian, they note new and strange lifeforms emerging from the depths. The way they live is changing how we think about life itself.
Karen Lloyd, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville reveals these organisms not only far outnumber surface dwellers, but they also far outlive us. They live for thousands of years, barely ever moving unless the Earth’s crust shifts around them.
Finding so much life so deep below the Earth begs the question: Did life originate from below the surface of the planet? Or, did life start above the surface and move below? The implications move beyond science:
Alexis Templeton, a Geomicrobiologist from the NASA Astrobiology Institute, has been taking part in a drilling project in Oman. Scientists extract samples of the deep earth and find a bewildering array of colors, textures, and new forms of life. They believe such subterranean lifeforms could well exist deep below the surface of Mars, as long as it is able to store water like lifeforms beneath the mountains of Oman.
Over 150 years ago, Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth, asking the question:
Today, it appears Verne was able to somehow tap into the future, as scientists begin to scratch the surface to find a massive well of life. The surface dwellers are hardly the dominant forms of life. Life forms living in such seemingly harsh and inhospitable conditions have been called “extremophiles,” but now, it looks like their way of life is actually the relative norm. See more from the Deep Carbon Observatory below Featured image: Screenshot via YouTube/Deep Carbon Observatory For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the process of getting inside and secured—in this case, in NASA’s Orion spacecraft—requires help. That’s the role of the Artemis closeout crew.
With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a Wall Street Journal article claimed an explosive mission in early 2025 was a greater danger to some flights than previously reported.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on arXiv from Cicero Lu at the Gemini Observatory and his co-authors. This time, humanity’s most advanced space telescope found UV-fluorescent carbon monoxide in a protoplanetary debris disk for the first time ever. It also discovered some features of that disk that have considerable implications for planetary formation theory.
With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans to deploy their own successor stations. This includes China, which plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station in the coming years, and the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS), with the first module targeted for launch by 2028. Then you have private ventures like Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef, Airbus’ LOOP, the Axiom Station, Vast’s Haven-1, and Starlab Space’s station.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps of material stretching much farther above and below the disk than astronomers have seen in any similar system. Strangely, more extended filaments are only visible on one side of the disk.
Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of individual trapped cold atoms in Italy, introducing techniques that push single-atom detection into new performance regimes.
Step inside the strange world of a superfluid, a liquid that can flow endlessly without friction, defying the common-sense rules we experience every day, where water pours, syrup sticks and coffee swirls and slows under the effect of viscosity. In these extraordinary fluids, motion often organizes itself into quantized vortices: tiny, long-lived whirlpools that act as the fundamental building blocks of superfluid flow.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source primarily composed of methane) into two highly valuable resources: clean hydrogen fuel and carbon nanotubes, which are ultralight and much stronger than steel.
What happens as a raindrop impacts bare soil has been fairly well-studied, but what happens to raindrops afterward is poorly understood. We know that the initial splash of raindrops on soil contributes to erosion, but a new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that the journey of the raindrop downhill might have an even bigger impact on erosion than the initial splash.
The driver, along with his 8- and 12-year-old passengers, were taken into custody after crashing the car into the side of a house
The U.S. Department of Education has also launched an investigation into the school’s security, looking into security reports, audits, dispatch and call logs and emergency notifications
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is found beneath our feet. But even soil is at risk: