Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 5 days to totality
2026-08-07T08:39:59.065Z Do clouds ruin a total solar eclipse? Clouds won’t necessarily sour your eclipse expedition. (Image credit: Vaughn…
Physicists watch a material’s electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases | MIT News
A tall glass of ice water isn’t just a thirst quencher; it’s also an everyday example of coexisting…
In 2012, South Africa began airlifting black rhinos upside down from remote terrain to expand their range; the conservation program has since helped establish 17 new populations | World News
A two-tonne rhino, fast asleep, flies to its new home upside down. Image Credits: @wwfblackrhinoproject/Instagram Imagine a two-tonne…
Before and after images of SpaceX Moon crash released
A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the Moon’s fresh crash scene caused by a…
Digging out the world’s first solar road took a crew 2 weeks, 8 years after France laid two thirds of a mile of panels into a Normandy lane that never made half the power it promised
A milling machine went down a rural lane in Normandy in late May and started chewing the road…
The programme to return Perseverance’s rock samples from Mars was cancelled by the US Congress in January 2026 — the rover has spent five years drilling and caching the most carefully selected geological samples in history, and right now there is no approved mission to bring them home
Congress ended the existing Mars Sample Return programme in January 2026 by giving it no money in NASA’s…
Monkey which attacked 18 people in Indonesia trapped
Animal trappers in Indonesia have captured a monkey which has been randomly attacking people on Sumatra Island over…
The secret history of volcanoes in Ireland
Analysis: You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island…
Hard-to-recycle PVC turned into sustainable lubricant
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The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft would need tens of thousands of years to cross, yet a proposed laser-driven sail carrying a gram-scale probe could make the journey in just over 20.
Alpha Centauri is close enough to be one of the brightest objects in the southern sky, yet it…
A Sri Lanka wildlife park is an elephant haven : NPR
For days, we met farmers as they prepared for the spring rice sowing season in central Sri Lanka.…
Scientists reanalysed 1978 Pioneer Venus data and found the planet’s clouds are roughly 60% water, not the concentrated sulfuric acid assumed for decades — a finding that quietly reopens the question of whether something could live up there
A peer-reviewed reanalysis of data from NASA’s 1978 Pioneer Venus mission proposes a very different recipe for part…