Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
“I’ve never seen anything like it”: photographer captures haunting contrast between life and death as Northern Gannet hangs from fishing line beneath nesting cliffs – the image now wins prestigious conservation award
“I was on a boat passing under cliffs where Northern Gannets nest and spotted this dead bird hanging…
The Vela Incident: Did an American satellite detect a secret nuclear test in 1979?
It began with an unusual flash detected off the coast of South Africa by an aging American satellite…
Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed | Extreme heat
Portsmouth, Leicester, Exeter, Bristol and Nottingham will be among the cities that warm the most by the end…
Does Pagan Cosmogony follow from General Relativity?
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More than 100 eagle rays gathered around a tuna farm off Malta; scientists say it is the largest aggregation of the species ever recorded |
Picture of Myliobatis aquila. Image Credit: Wikipedia More than 100 ‘eagle rays’ were recorded gathering around a tuna…
Just hours before impact – this week a hi-tech telescope spotted an asteroid, then watched it hit Earth
Planetary defence scientists caught an asteroid smashing into Earth off the coast of Australia this week – and…
10 Elusive Animals That Finally Showed Up for the Cameras
No person today has seen a living woolly mammoth. And unless a big tech company produces a clone,…
APOD: 2026 September 8 – Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole
Explanation: Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud…
Balancing an egg: How scientists built a floating magnet to hunt dark matter
A magnet the thickness of a few sheets of paper floats in mid-air with essentially no friction. It…
Florida deputies help buck out of home and swimming pool
‘A buck-wild call for service’: Bodycam shows deputies helping deer escape Florida home and swimming pool (Video: St.…
In 2024, Julia Low’s team at RMIT sat 54 volunteers in a virtual reality reconstruction of the International Space Station and had them sniff vanilla, almond and lemon, and the two sweet smells came through noticeably stronger inside the simulated spacecraft than in a plain room
Fifty-four people sat in a lab in Melbourne wearing virtual reality goggles, drifting through a reconstruction of the…