Scientists identify ‘oddball’ meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs | News
Dr. Philippe Claeys, a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, in front of an exhibit at…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
A new light on the microbiome and its metabolites
JULY 27, 2026, NEW YORK – Plant-based diets are good for you. They promote gut, immune, metabolic and…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…
Chang’e-6 Samples Provide an Ancient Record of the Moon’s Far Side.
Samples obtained by China’s Chang’e-6 mission are revealing a great deal about the Moon’s far side. The study…
Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A…
Hundreds of whales, thousands of dolphins spotted off coast
A record 228 humpback whales were sighted off Kaikōura’s coast during the recent Great Kaikōura Whale Count. The…
New injectable hydrogel accelerates healing of deep wounds
Any minor cut or scrape sets the body’s natural healing process in motion. However, deep wounds are far…
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…
A Fiber Frozen at -196°C Unlocks a New Way To Store Light
Artist impression of a frozen optical fiber core in a glass capillary, which guides and couples light and…
Uranus is tipped so far over it does not spin like other planets so much as roll around the Sun, and the result is brutal: each pole spends about 42 years in continuous sunlight, then roughly 42 years in unbroken darkness
Imagine standing at the north pole of a planet and watching the Sun remain above the horizon for…
Rocket Lab wins $460 million contract with US military
Rocket Lab has secured a $266 million (NZ$460 million) contract with the United States military. The New Zealand-founded…