Astrophotographer spends nearly 70 hours capturing a delicate blue nebula in Orion (photo)
The Cederblad 51 nebula in the constellation Orion. (Image credit: Emil Andronic) Astrophotographer Emil Andronic spent nearly 70…
Significant Increase in the Number of Objects Launched Into Space
March 15, 2026 More than 4,500 objects were launched into space in 2025, up from 600 in 2019.…
Human brains are wired for music at the very start of life
Humans are born with an innate capacity for music, a biological ability to detect rhythm and melody that…
Hubble and Euclid capture the final act of a dying star — and it’s glorious: Space photo of the week
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Researchers use glow-in-the-dark technology to track threat lurking in human body: ‘A snapshot in time’
In a study published in New Contaminants and reported on by Science Daily, researchers have developed a potential…
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
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Astronomers Confirm a ‘Mega-Laser’ Beam Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away, and It Refuses to Fade Out
A thin, stubbornly bright line showed up in data from the MeerKAT radio telescope that did not fit…
Crocodile named ‘Lucy’s hunter’ may have stalked early humans
More than three million years ago, the world looked very different from today. Early human relatives walked across…
‘The fish fled’: Nile fisherman earning more from collecting plastic than fish | Egypt
At 6am, Mohammed Ahmed Sayed Mohammed steers his boat from al-Qarsaya island through Cairo’s Nile waters towards the…
Boxing hares, leaping toads and more… Best of British wildlife photography – Firstpost
Boxing hares, leaping toads and more… Best of British wildlife photography FirstpostDueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026…
In physics first, Chinese scientists create rare ‘hexagonal diamond’ that’s harder than natural diamond
Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a…
Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can | US news
Can and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential…