In 2016, an amateur astronomer testing a new camera captured a supernova brightening up to 70 million light-years away
First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy which lies in…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…
In 1979, an Australian couple moved to a 10,000-acre island with two babies; 46 years later, their family helped remove three feral pests and completely destock livestock
Flinders island from space. April 1993. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Most people who buy property look at square…
Saber-Toothed Cats Were A Diseased, Inbred Mess Before They Went Extinct, New Research Suggests : ScienceAlert
Whether waking up to a slobber-soaked ribbon draped across one’s face or an unfortunately massacred mouse ‘gifted’ in…
AustralianSuper still wary of Musk’s SpaceX months after listing
AustralianSuper has taken a small stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the country’s biggest pension fund wary of…
US scientists place strongest limit on muon’s hidden electric signal
Can a particle hide a secret in the tiniest of wobbles? A new analysis hints at this possibility.…
We tend to picture glaciers as slow rivers of frozen water, but the Byrd Glacier in Antarctica drains an area larger than California through a gap in the Transantarctic Mountains at up to 800 metres a year, dragging enough ice to raise global sea level measurably if it ever fully released
Byrd Glacier sits at the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and moves. Fast. Radar and satellite…
Ancient Egypt Will Soon Host The Century’s Longest Total Solar Eclipse
Topline Ancient Egypt’s former capital is about to become ground zero for the world’s eclipse chasers. On Aug.…
4 key metrics that runners need to track for a healthy heart – and exactly how to measure and improve them
Nancy Wells crossed the finish line of the 2025 Mercy Health Glass City Half Marathon, in Ohio, feeling…
Trying Different Things to Do at Niagara Falls: Best and Worst Ones
At about $150 USD per person, our tour with Niagara Helicopters was a splurge. But, in my opinion,…
Starship’s 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
At the moment of liftoff, SpaceX’s Starship pushes off the launch pad with approximately 74.4 million newtons of…
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these…