World’s second most visited country eyes 500,000 visitors for rare astronomical event next month
As a child, Enrique Bordallo would gaze in awe at the starry night sky in rural Spain. Next…
Candidatus Bartonella xiongi influences iron homeostasis in the hematophagous mite Dermanyssus gallinae, affecting its reproduction
Iron is an essential element for most organisms, including hematophagous arthropods, which are critical vectors for dozens of…
See The Moon Meet Two Of Summer’s Brightest Stars: Night Sky This Week
Topline This week is perfect for letting the moon give you a tour of some of the night…
How electroacupuncture calms inflammation and the super microscope that showed it
A cutting-edge microscope has allowed scientists to capture in real time how electroacupuncture directs the movement of immune…
Greens promises to cut power bills and make solar more affordable with $980m ‘KiwiPower’ plan
The Green Party has pledged to set up a publicly-owned entity to boost investment in renewable energy and…
Starwatch: Identifying the Scorpion, mythical adversary of Orion | Astronomy
This week we will take the opportunity to identify Scorpius, the Scorpion, one of the famous zodiacal constellations.…
Meet Jimothy: The unusually round raccoon
He is no Timothée Chalamet, but an unusually round raccoon has become Seattle’s unlikeliest celebrity, charming millions online.…
The Case of the Sun’s Missing Silver
There is something quietly reassuring about a scientific mystery that gets solved not by a dramatic new discovery,…
Shaping the Emerald City – NASA Science
Seattle, Washington—sometimes known as the “Emerald City”—was glimmering in the morning sunlight when an astronaut aboard the International…
Underwater Drones Find Vibrant Coral Reefs Off Benin
A missing-presumed-dead coral reef has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. 1960s surveys, focused…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond…
Watching This Hummingbird Play in a Fountain Will Brighten Your Day
Sometimes it’s the little things that truly make your day. After adding a small fountain to her balcony…