Artemis II crew to receive top US space medal for historic lunar journey | Artemis II
The crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission have earned the US’s top space medal, officials…
In 2021, National Geographic reported that Sydney cockatoos can pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the learned trick had spread across 44 suburbs | World News
Cockatoo in Sydney. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons News from Sydney about cockatoos that learned to open garbage bins…
Telescope image that echoes Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ contains some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the…
Anger over slow pace of reconstruction in Italian town devastated by earthquake in 2016 | Italy
As people gather in Amatrice on Monday for a mass to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touching it
The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead…
The Sky Today on Sunday, August 23: Double star Zeta Coronae Borealis
Back to Article List Seek out this easy-to-split but complex multiple star system in the Northern Crown, visible…
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? | Low emission zones
Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room…
A microwave-oven-sized experiment inside NASA’s Perseverance rover made history in 2021 by extracting oxygen from Mars’s carbon-dioxide atmosphere—the first demonstration of producing a usable resource from the environment of another planet.
On 20 April 2021, one day after a helicopter made the first powered flight on another world, a…
Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 years
Samara reintroduced wild cheetahs to the Great Karoo in 2004 after 130 years. (Picture: Samara) In 1997, couple…
Stars Survive Despite Black Holes’ Repeated Attacks
Most galaxies are thought to harbor a supermassive black hole at their center. These enormous objects can weigh…