Starlink’s plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
offbeat Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space? SpaceX has acknowledged the…
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics – YouTube
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics YouTubeUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in…
Conservation Mascot | Nat Geo Photo of the Day
Wearing a costume of the near-threatened Eurasian curlew, conservationist Matt Trevelyan opens a gate on a farm as…
A Wooden Club and Other Rare Finds Reveal ‘Invisible’ Side of Neanderthal Life
As one of our closest ancient human relatives, the Neanderthals knew how to exploit natural resources for their…
Americans are paying 62% more for water than a decade ago. Here’s where costs have risen the most.
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Artemis II Crew Moon Photo Annotations
A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun is marked with handwritten notes in this April 6,…
A chiral superlattice route to spin-split topological antiferromagnetism
Bloom, B. P., Paltiel, Y., Naaman, R. & Waldeck, D. H. Chiral induced spin selectivity. Chem. Rev. 124,…
Polar bear returns to wildlife park after almost a year in Yorkshire – BBC
Polar bear returns to wildlife park after almost a year in Yorkshire BBCPolar bear Brodie returns to Highland Wildlife…
On this day in space! Oct. 7, 2002: NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis to deliver backbone of the ISS on STS-112 mission
On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112. This mission…
Q&A: ‘Are the warnings all hype?’ – our environment writers answered your El Niño questions | El Niño southern oscillation
That’s all, folks! Thank you for all your brilliant questions and for reading along! Even if yours didn’t…
Planet Mars or ice cream? Five times the Red Planet looked absolutely delicious (and the science behind what’s really going on)
From the hundreds and thousands of images of Mars captured by rovers on the Martian surface, you could…
A Strange New Material Breaks the Usual Rules of Heat and Stiffness
Illustration of a layered hybrid perovskite film engineered to combine extreme stiffness with exceptionally low heat transfer. Credit:…