NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather
On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase…
Trump Eases Restrictions on Climate ‘Super Pollutants’
President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration is easing restrictions on the potent planet-warming chemicals used in…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard…
Spectral level repulsion and Lifshitz-like states in hyperuniform disordered photonic networks
The samples investigated in this work are based on the design of a purely two-dimensional stealthy hyperuniform disordered…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
A journey by bike across Canada helped this man’s tremors
A former race car driver is not letting Parkinson’s disease stop him from seeing the country. Lloyd Taylor…
Officials forecast below-average hurricane season, but stress ‘it only takes one’
Canada’s hurricane forecasters are expecting a quieter year for hurricanes, but say people should still be prepared for…
Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again
NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space…
New theory argues quantum physics must abandon irratonal numbers and the continuum
Quantum mechanics works perfectly in experiments, but Oxford physicist Tim Palmer argues it rests on a mathematical fiction:…
Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. The new Pegasus lunar rover is just the start
Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. It’s right there in their name. The Colorado-based company has…
Japan’s Skies Turn Red As Unexpected Auroras Reach Heights Usually Reserved For Polar Regions
A series of unusually tall red auroras illuminated Japan’s skies between June 2024 and March 2025, revealing that…
The main takeaways from Elon Musk’s plans for $1.75tn SpaceX flotation | SpaceX
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has revealed plans for a highly anticipated $1.75tn (£1.3tn) flotation next month as he seeks…