Solar Power Is Booming in Emerging Markets
Solar energy is going gangbusters. The world is adding photovoltaic solar panels at a blistering rate, shattering its…
By the age of eight, a girl in northeastern Brazil was working through sky-survey images on two computer screens and had logged 18 preliminary asteroid detections; if confirmed, they would make her younger than Luigi Sannino, who was 18 when he set the record for youngest person to discover an asteroid in 1999.
A child at a desk after school, two screens glowing in front of her, clicking through frames of…
Scientists defend older dating of Monte Verde in Chile
Two groups of researchers are defending the conclusion that the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile was…
Declines in European bumblebee habitat suitability attributable to climate change
IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
Astronomers already knew the Milky Way’s magnetic field reverses near the Sagittarius Arm, but a new 2026 three-dimensional model revealed the boundary’s unexpected shape: not a vertical wall between spiral arms, but a tilted magnetic plane slicing diagonally through the Galactic disc and passing just above our own region of space.
The Milky Way has a magnetic field, but no camera can step outside the Galaxy and photograph its…
Two men pulled alive from Nepal hydropower plant tunnel nine days after floods
If you’re just joining us, there is a sense of renewed hope in Nepal today after two workers…
On this day in space! Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 on epic journey across the solar system
On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch…
About 90,000 people crossed London’s new Millennium Bridge on the day it opened in June 2000, with as many as 2,000 on the deck at once, and it swayed so badly it closed days later; subsequent work found that as few as 160 pedestrians could trigger the instability, and the fix was a system of dampers installed on the bridge.
The story most people carry about the “wobbly bridge” is that crowds marching in step shook it, or…
Denmark turns a retired wind turbine blade into a bike shelter as recycling challenge grows
Across the United States and many other countries, wind power is gaining ground as a cleaner alternative to…
Comets may have transported water to a young planetary system: Study
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets, comets in other solar systems, orbiting a…