Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Science policy
Your editorial rightly criticises the decision to cease funding the Lovell telescope from March 2028 (The Guardian view…
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor | Romania
Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube…
Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star
For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…
Invasive rats are stopping small mammals from returning to Madagascar’s regenerating forests – study
In south-eastern Madagascar, patches of forest that were once cut down to make way for farms are slowly…
Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ May Finally Reveal Its Origins
At the edge of the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, crimson water pours into…
The 1st ‘three-headed’ asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
A collage of images of asteroid (44) Nysa, believed to be the first-known asteroid in our solar system…
Altermagnetic photonic crystals | Nature Physics
Šmejkal, L., Sinova, J. & Jungwirth, T. Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism. Phys. Rev. X 12, 040501 (2022).…
Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt – BBC
Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt BBCScottish islanders refused permission to stage annual seabird chicks hunt BBCLicence…
Quantum Science Information | AZoQuantum.com
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On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
Western Australia’s humpback sightings fell 60%; days later, weakened Southern Ocean seabirds appeared thousands of kilometres away on the country’s east coast
humpback whale (representative image) Something unusual may be unfolding in the Southern Ocean. In late June, whale watchers…
Could we send a spaceship to Comet 3I/ATLAS to collect samples?
Back to Article List From the August 2026 issue There are big challenges associated with such a mission,…