New deep diamond and barium minerals named after UBC researchers
Two newly discovered minerals have a very personal connection to UBC: they were discovered by, and named after,…
‘I’ve always been a go-getter’: NTI president reflects on first 2 weeks on job
Two and a half years is a short window for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Gloria Uluqsi to do…
Earth’s underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals
Earth’s underground fungal network is so vast that, if it were in outer space, it would span roughly…
James Webb Space Telescope discovers ‘galaxy-killing’ wind that may explain why some early galaxies lived fast and died young
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers may have uncovered…
The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future
Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much…
The Milky Way returns: How to take breathtaking photos of our galaxy this summer
With the arrival of the summer solstice on June 21, stargazing becomes a late-night hobby. But June is…
Atomic clocks may be powerful enough to detect the quantum fabric of time
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…
ESA astronaut assignment on Artemis 3 part of negotiations on revised Artemis roles
WASHINGTON — The assignment of a European Space Agency astronaut to the Artemis 3 mission is part of…
Commercial forests and biodiversity claims | Trees and forests
Last week you published a well-balanced piece on the success story that is Kielder Forest (How England’s largest…
SpaceX, Late-Stage Capitalism, and the Trillionaire’s Race War
(Photo illustration by The Bulwark / Photos: Getty, Shutterstock) Warning: Today’s Triad is unlocked and free for everyone.…
There is a black hole sitting roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth, called TON 618, with a mass about 66 billion times that of our Sun — more massive than every star in the Milky Way galaxy combined — and its outer edge stretches across a region of space roughly 30 to 40 times wider than our entire solar system
If you point a powerful telescope at the right patch of sky on the border between the constellations…
Video shows angler freeing great white shark after surprise catch at Nantucket | Sharks
An angler who reeled in a rare great white shark at a Nantucket beach said he posted extraordinary…