On this day in space! July 27, 1962: The 1st zero-g cosmonaut training flight takes off on a Soviet jetliner
On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space.…
Can Renewables Industrialize Africa? | Foreign Affairs
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How NASA Plans to Build the Habitable Worlds Observatory
We’ve been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few…
Wildlife presenter and Goodies star Bill Oddie dies aged 85
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Duke University engineers use robots and AI to improve gut health
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a method for systematically developing novel, complex combinations of probiotics and…
Europe wildfires: Officials warn that wildfires could still be burning in November – as it happened | World news
Spain meteo service warns of another ‘long’ heatwave from Wednesday Spanish state meteorological agency Aemet has just issued…
Why an Icy Hummingbird Has Emerged in Antarctica
It’s easy not to instantly recognize what the picture above shows. It appears to depict a distorted hummingbird-style…
Monsoon Alert: 6 Signs there might be a snake near your home
Snakes don’t leave footprints, but their movement across loose dust, dry mud, or sand can leave a distinctive…
Hubble Spots Spiral Galaxy Warped by Cosmic Forces
A stunning new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the lopsided intermediate spiral galaxy NGC…
On Brink of Extinction, the Vaquita Porpoise is Being Preserved By Digital Image
Vaquita, Gulf of California in 2008 – NOAA Fisheries on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The elusive vaquita porpoise…
Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days
Agency 27/07/2026 492 views 8 likes Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space…
It starts to spin in the water just before emerging head first and leaping up to 3m into the air, rotating continuously
There are few marine wildlife displays above the water that rival the spectacular leaps and rapid spinning twists of the…