An Orbital StormWall Could Mitigate The Next Carrington Event
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded. In September 1859, auroras were visible as…
Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup | Rivers
A river campaigner who organised a cleanup of his local waterway is being threatened with prosecution by the…
The Murchison meteorite that fell on an Australian town in 1969 contains grains of stardust 7 billion years old, meaning the dust predates the Sun itself and is the oldest solid material ever held in a human hand
At 10:58 in the morning on 28 September 1969, residents of Murchison, a farming town of a few…
Hidden beneath the Kalahari Desert is a 264-metre-deep underground lake where blind animals thrive in darkness |
Sixty metres beneath one of southern Africa’s driest landscapes lies a world that seems strangely detached from everything…
These ‘master’ proteins protect us from deadly mutations — and could inspire new drugs
Our genomes are full of mutations that have the potential to damage our health or even kill us.…
The ocean has shielded us from the worst of climate change. Now it is running a fever | Karina Von Schuckmann
The ocean is running a fever. In 2025, the number of days of marine heatwaves – prolonged spells…
SpaceX strikes $60bn deal for AI coding agent Cursor
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has signed an agreement to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding agent Cursor,…
Soviet institutes, Martian neighbours, Whovian science, stellar patterns and dystopian predictions: micro reviews of recent books – Physics World
Soviet institutes, Martian neighbours, Whovian science, stellar patterns and dystopian predictions: micro reviews of recent books – Physics…
SpaceX launches 3 huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Florida
SpaceX launched three giant direct-to-cell satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this morning (June 17). A Falcon 9 rocket…
Physicists Create a New Kind of Schrödinger’s Cat State From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Scientists Discover New Rock Type On Mars
Scientists need to now study the garnet’s isotopic signatures to verify if it was originally produced on Mars…
‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London | Trees and forests
Harry Ewing is heaping branches and foliage from the forest floor on to a dead hedge, reinforcing the…