Shark Week team discovers the rare “Blackmacos” off the coast of California

In 2019, Shark Tagger Keith Poe worked off the coast of California when he hooked an incredibly large “Black Mako” shark. The shark looked bigger and darker than the shortfin macus (isurus paucus). This is generally dark blue or gray, with white underneath gray. This sighting is the basis for the new shark week show, […]

3 hours from New York to Los Angeles? Executive Order could make it possible by 2027, allowing doors to be reopened for commercial supersonic flights

Supersonic commercial travel could soon come to the United States, following a new executive order lifting a 52-year ban on commercial supersonic flights on land. Supersonic flights could transcend the Atlantic, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned commercial supersonic flights on land in 1973 in response to public pressure on noise concerns. The new […]

If the aliens were on Mars 3.7 billion years ago, they would have needed an umbrella

Mars was a more rainy place than planetary scientists had previously thought, according to a new study of an ancient inverted river channel that spans more than 9,000 miles (14,484 kilometers) in the Noah-Histora area of Red Planet. “Our work is new evidence suggesting that Mars was a much more complex and active planet than […]