Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Nobody knows where the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone” originated. But the fact that it—or a…
Scalar or Vector: What Physics Taught Me About Building a Career – Youth Central
Physics Class Gave us one distinction early on that most of us filed away and forgot. A scalar…
Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart
Many molecules come in two forms that are mirror images of one another, much like left and right…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs had unexpected origins
A new study has found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare, dry type of…
Before Concepts of Physics became every JEE student’s bible, IIT Kanpur professor H.C. Verma solved a bigger problem
Millions solved his physics problems, but few know why H.C. Verma wrote Concepts of Physics. (Photo: X post)…
An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon. The real problem comes next
In the early hours of 5 August (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into…
France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins | Wildfires
Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to bring huge wildfires under control before another heatwave this week…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
China team unearths world’s oldest amber, hidden in ancient Xinjiang coal seam
Chinese scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest verified amber in the northwestern Xinjiang region, revealing that ancient plants…
What two centuries of Perth storm records tell us about future climate risk
On the first day of winter, southwest Western Australia was pummelled by a damaging storm. The Bureau of…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…
Chang’e-6 Samples Provide an Ancient Record of the Moon’s Far Side.
Samples obtained by China’s Chang’e-6 mission are revealing a great deal about the Moon’s far side. The study…