A team from University of Michigan recovers a Woolly Mammoth skull in a farmers field in Lima Township, Michigan. 🗿 #science

Scientists have unveiled the severed head of a huge Ice Age wolf baring its teeth (right), which dates back more than 40,000 years. The snarling beast with its brain intact was found preserved in permafrost in the Yakutia region on Siberia. The head is almost 16 inches long, nearly twice the size of the head of its modern-day descendant, which measures in at 9.1-11 inches. The graphic on the left shows a comparison of the Ice Age wolf to a modern-day Gray wolf. #science

The remarkable Insight rover will map the deep structure of Mars 🗿 #science

US weapons manufacturer Raytheon and Northrop Grumman are developing a hypersonic missile that can travel at 4,600mph with an engine made by a 3D printer. The project will utilise Northrop's scramjet engine technology, which uses the vehicle's high speed to forcibly compress incoming air before combustion to enable sustained flight at hypersonic speeds. 🚀 #wow #future #science

Scientists say a massive freshwater aquifer discovered off the coast of the US could help mitigate water crises in North America and abroad. In a study spearheaded by scientists at Columbia University, the researchers say the gargantuan subterranean aquifer spans at least from New Jersey to Massachusetts and sprawls outward into the ocean, reaching the edge of the continental shelf. Scientists say if the water contained in the aquifer were a surface-level lake, it would cover about 15,000 square miles. 💧 #science

A huge prehistoric settlement dating back 9,000 years unearthed near Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists during preparations for a new highway could rewrite the history of humans in the region. The archaeological team discovered large buildings, including rooms that were used for living, as well as public facilities and places of ritual. Between the buildings, alleys were exposed, bearing evidence of the settlement's advanced level of planning. The team also found storage sheds that contained large quantities of legumes, particularly lentils, whose seeds were remarkably preserved throughout the millennia. 🗿 #science #history

Fake SNOW could be used to stop the melting of the west Antarctic ice sheet which threatens to flood the world's coastal cities including New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. Scientists say the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet - which would threaten many cities with catastrophic flooding - may be prevented by covering it in trillions of tons of artificial snow. ❄️ #science & #facepalm

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history ⚠️ But that was not the only cause for concern. Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. That's equivalent to 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools. "For those keeping track, this means the #Greenland #icesheet ends July with a net mass loss of 197 Gigatonnes since the 1st of the month," tweeted Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with Danish Meteorological Institute – a number equivalent to around 80 million Olympic swimming pools. 😱 #science

Two Earth-like planets just 12.5 light years from our solar system could harbour liquid water on their surfaces — and have the potential to also be home to alien life. Both planets could support water, even if the scientists do not know what its atmosphere is like. They claim that even if the planet's atmosphere is relatively thin in comparison to Earth's, or it is far thicker, it may still be a viable world for life and water. Orbiting around Teegarden's star, the worlds — dubbed Teegarden’s star b and c — were first detected in June 2019 by the Calar Alto Observatory's CARMENES survey. #science

Jupiter was in a gigantic head-on collision with a 'protoplanet' 4.5 billion years ago when it was still forming - and the gas giant completely absorbed the other world. That's the theory of scientists who've studied the planet's history using data from NASA's Juno space probe. They believe this collision with the planet - roughly the mass of ten Earths - explains its mysterious gassy inner-core. 'Models of such a scenario lead to an internal structure that is consistent with a diluted core, persisting over billions of years,' they say in their study, which was published in the journal, Nature. If their theory is correct, it sheds new light on the solar system's tumultuous formation. 💥 #science

International researchers have successfully teleported 'quantum states' from one photon to another, in a pioneering breakthrough that may lead to a more secure way of transmitting data. The first-time breakthrough came when scientists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna, working with quantum physicists from the University of Science and Technology of China, were able to teleport the characteristics, or states, of one photon to a distant other. #science

A massive layer of volcanic rock carrying multitudes of sea organisms could soon aid in the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef, which has been "bleached" and permanently damaged by climate change. The "raft" was captured by NASA Earth Observatory days after an underwater volcano 130 feet down may have erupted near the island of Tonga. The resulting raft of pumice rock is the size of Manhattan and is floating toward Australia, NASA said.Days later, an Australian couple sailing to Vanatu on a catamaran encountered the raft.The sheer volume of the mass, made up of "pumice stones from marble to basketball size," blocked their ship.🗿#science

NASA scientist has painted a picture of the unfathomable - the speed of light. A series of images show just how fast light can travel through space. In a perfectly empty vacuum, a particle of light is capable of travelling 186,282 miles per second or about 670.6 million mph -- it can complete a full orbit around Earth 7.5 times in a second. #science

A stunning image of two young stars being birthed amidst a pretzel-like swirl of interstellar dust and gas has been captured by telescopes in Chile. The pair of baby stars are located in the so-called '[BHB2007] 11 system', the newest addition to a small star cluster in the Barnard 59 dark nebula. #science

Climate change will cause El Niños to be stronger, a new study suggests. El Niños, which occur every few years, are the natural warming of seawater in the tropical Pacific Ocean that fuel weather extremes in the U.S. and around the world. Looking back at dozens of El Niños in the past century, scientists found that they have been forming farther to the west since the 1970s. Water is naturally warmer in the western Pacific Ocean, which translates to stronger El Niños. And in the future, continued warming over the western Pacific as a result of climate change promises conditions that will trigger more extreme El Niño events, according to study lead author Bin Wang, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Hawaii. #science

What was predicted to be the last sea ice to lose its perennial ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, is now melting twice as fast as any ice in the area. Researchers have released a video showing the oldest and thickest solid layer of frozen ocean water has loss 95 percent of its mass over the past 35 years –which experts say is a 'dramatic indicator' of climate change. The area is now dominated by thinner and more mobile ice that is more susceptible to melting, which has 'led to stresses on the entire spectrum of ice‐dependent organisms from ice algae to polar bears'. Climate models have predicted that Arctic summers will soon be ice-free and it could happen as early as 2030. 🌎 #science

NASA will have a new resource to help it plan future missions to the Moon - after geologists create the first map of the rocks on the lunar surface. The lunar map, called the Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, has been created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute. The colourful map is designed to act like a blueprint of the Moon's surface geology and will be 'invaluable to the scientific community, educators and the public'. It was created using information from six Apollo-era regional maps and updated information from more recent satellite missions to the Moon. The different coloured regions show elevations rock types and specific surface features to help aid future explorers and researchers. #science

Astronomers have published the largest and most complete 3D map of the Universe ever created. It includes more than four million individual galaxies and ultra-bright quasars and is the result of two decades of research from an international team of researchers. The map provides an accurate look at the scale and expansion of the universe from shortly after the Big Bang onwards. Will Percival of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who was involved in the project, said it yields a 'complete story of the expansion of the universe'. The map relies on the latest observations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, titled the 'extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey'. Data was collected over six years from an optical telescope in New Mexico. Lots is known about the earliest portion of the universe's life as many researchers have studied the Big Bang. However, there has always been a gap in knowledge in the middle portion of the universe's existence, lasting around 11 billion years. #science