Scientists Catch a “Jumping Gene” Moving Between Species
Scientists have uncovered a possible new route by which “jumping genes” move between species. Credit: Shutterstock A jumping…
Rare Planetary Parade On July 12: Moon To Appear Alongside Mars, Saturn And Uranus
A rare sky event will greet early risers before sunrise on July 12 as the Moon appears close…
The Sun ejects roughly a billion tons of charged plasma in a single coronal mass ejection — and it can cross 150 million kilometers to Earth in under 18 hours
A coronal mass ejection is the Sun throwing a piece of itself at the rest of the solar…
Saturn’s rings are so young that dinosaurs would have looked up at a ringless planet, and measurements from the Cassini probe suggest they are being pulled into the planet fast enough to disappear entirely
Saturn’s rings look permanent. They are not, in either direction. The best readings from the Cassini spacecraft suggest…
Blue LED lights help chemists build complex drug molecules
In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly…
Heat and fire generate overlapping problems for much of southern Europe
Nearly 20 people are still unaccounted for after a wildfire ripped through a tinder-dry area close to Spain’s…
Scientists Say They’ve Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door
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New viral library helps scientists study thousands of proteins
To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us – whether it’s an individual case of hepatitis B or…
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a…
Starship Flight 13 Targets July 15 After Booster 20 Clears Its Static Fire
SpaceX completed a full-duration, 33-engine static fire of Super Heavy Booster 20 on Friday morning — the last…
In March 2026, a strange ‘chirp’ from a distant dying star proved to be something never seen so clearly before: the birth of a magnetar — a newborn neutron star so magnetic it could wipe every credit card on Earth from halfway to the Moon
For the first time, astronomers have found compelling evidence of a magnetar being born inside a supernova. A…
Life in France in 40 degree heat: Parisian heat traps are only part of the equation – The Irish Times
From crossing to the shady side of the street when it’s not yet 9am, enviously eyeing up the…