Cheaper than Prime Day, this super-portable telescope is my number one choice for skywatching
I’ve got three telescopes in my home, but the Celestron FirstScope is my first stop when it comes…
Chinese, German scientists build room temperature magnetic sensor
Chinese and German researchers have developed a magnetic sensor to spot magnetic signals much more faint than Earth’s…
How do animals survive life on the equator? The astonishing tricks rainforest creatures use to survive the world’s hottest, wettest forests
Living successfully in the tropics is no mean feat. Stuart Blackman looks at the living conditions at the…
Jura research casts new light on how rivers carve through landscapes
Their findings suggest that the contrast between the hardness of the riverbed and the sediment which causes the…
APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North…
Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second
Insider Brief Sparrow Quantum and Ruhr University Bochum developed a deterministic source that delivers more than 500 million…
Rocket Lab’s Neutron Just Slipped Again. Here’s the Only Date That Still Matters for Shareholders.
Uh-oh. Here we go again! It’s been nearly five years since Sir Peter Beck, the founder and CEO…
Are we the aliens? Earth could be sending life to Venus, say scientists
A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over…
Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World
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Brain Cells Once Thought to Help May Actually Drive Cognitive Decline
For decades, scientists assumed that oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin, the protective coating around nerve fibers, were…
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Perseverance filmed Phobos crossing the Sun again on 12 August 2026 — the same potato-shaped moon whose orbit is slowly decaying toward Mars
On 12 August 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover pointed its Mastcam-Z camera up into the pale Martian sky and…