Scientists Find the Hidden “Fuel” That May Intensify Tropical Clouds
A new study suggests that tropical convective clouds can reach much higher water-vapor supersaturation than previously documented, revealing…
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…
Nearly a millennium ago sky-watchers recorded a new star so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks, and Hubble has now traced how far its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has expanded since — a thousand-year-old explosion still visibly unfolding
In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a new “guest star” near Tianguan, the star we now…
Enough heat entered the ocean in 2024 to outpace the world’s total electricity generation 140 times over, and a separate study just put a $2 trillion price tag on ocean-related climate damages every year
Picture the entire world’s electricity generation running at full tilt for a year. Now picture that same amount…
Two humpback whales were tracked crossing more than 14,000 kilometres between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil — one of them shattering every migration record ever recorded for the species
Two humpback whales have done something the species was not supposed to do often: they turned up on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Moon in Cancer 2026: meaning and effects
On July 14, 2026, the New Moon is in Cancer. If the New Moon is the perfect time…
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…