See The First Perseids As Solar Eclipse Nears: The Night Sky This Week
Topline August begins with a comet getting close to the sun, but for most skywatchers it will be…
NASA Using Laramie Company’s Big-Wheeled Drone To Crawl Into Tight Spaces
When NASA needed to inspect a tight crawlspace for its Artemis 3 project, they contacted a small tech…
Two deadly flowers could inspire powerful new medicines
Two plants capable of causing nerve damage and paralysis at extremely low doses may also contain compounds with…
Starwatch: Mercury to reach farthest point from the sun | Astronomy
This week offers one of the better opportunities of the year to catch a glimpse of the solar…
Dark Matter May Be Transforming Into Weird Particles That Fill The Universe With Gravity : ScienceAlert
Bewilderingly, most of the matter in the Universe seems to be invisible. All the visible stuff like galaxies,…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size of Hubble’s but sees a patch of sky about a hundred times wider, built mainly to map dark energy and hunt for planets
NASA’s next great observatory is finished, fuelled and nearly ready to fly. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Two attosecond flashes reveal the motion of electrons
Researchers at the Max Born Institute have developed a laboratory-based method in which attosecond pulses are used both…
Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space
The Sun continuously sends a fast stream of charged particles through space, a phenomenon known as the solar…
Shaping light like never before – with photonic time crystals
An international team of researchers from École polytechnique, Collège de France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has achieved a…
A 2021 estimate suggested that about 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived, while only 32 relatively well-preserved post-juvenile specimens were then held in public museums — roughly one for every 80 million animals. And T. rex is one of the better represented large theropods
In 2021 a team of paleontologists led by Charles Marshall at Berkeley did something clever: they estimated not…
AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world’s oceans
Artificial intelligence has helped scientists produce the first comprehensive global assessment of floating algae, revealing that blooms are…
Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’
Published on July 29, 2026 Outlier Space has raised an unusually large $10.5 million pre-seed round to build…