‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution | Water
“I’m furious,” says Jo Armstrong, 75, sitting on Brighton beach with her daughter and granddaughter. Armstrong lives in…
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in their Space data center plans; says: Let’s take our data centers to …
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in their Space data center plans NASA Administrator…
The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes
Astronomers estimate that about 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes exist within the observable universe, a number written as…
Farmer fears for kingfishers and wildlife at crowded River Stour
A farmer has spoken of his fears that antisocial river users are scaring or drowning local wildlife. Daniel…
The ocean looks like one vast sunlit body of water, but below about 600 feet there is too little light for photosynthesis, and below 3,300 feet sunlight disappears entirely—leaving much of Earth’s surface in permanent darkness.
Seen from orbit, Earth looks like a blue world wrapped in one connected, sunlit ocean. That horizontal view…
Humpback whales have been seen helping seals, sea lions and even sunfish escape orca attacks — intervening in hunts involving animals from entirely different species for reasons researchers still cannot fully explain
An ocean sunfish looks like a design somebody abandoned halfway through, a giant grey dinner plate with a…
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar System
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that went interstellar, entombed the sky, hit…
Some signs of quantum gravity may be an illusion
Two remarkably successful theories explain nearly everything we observe in the universe, from tiny atoms and molecules to…
Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres
A whale shark tips nose down, holds its tail almost still, and sinks. The camera watching this is…
The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos.
Everything directly available to our senses belongs to the smallest slice of the standard cosmological budget. Stars, planets,…
Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point
For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
NASA has demonstrated a satellite that can determine its own orbit without GPS by photographing other spacecraft and debris, matching them against a catalogue of 20,000 objects, and using them as moving landmarks—a first-of-its-kind system that could eventually help spacecraft navigate near the Moon and Mars.
NASA says a spacecraft in its Starling CubeSat swarm has determined its own orbit without GPS by observing…