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A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…

Cape Town authorities are planning to move two troops of baboons from the Simons Town area to electrified…

An asteroid larger than St Paul’s Cathedral smashed into the Moon in a rare “once-in-a-lifetime” collision, Nasa has…

The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…

Some members from NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class pose during outdoor geology training in May 2026. (Image credit:…

Insider Brief Stanford researchers directly observed individual phonons, or quantum units of sound, making discrete energy jumps in…

The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week…

Chinese space company reveals Raptor 3-like engine design. The Chinese launch startup Space Pioneer, which has raised nearly…

The Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex returned to westerly circulation over the Arctic in late August 2026 and…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may be able to operate for far longer than originally expected. An…

Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…

Long-finned pilot whales typically favour cooler, temperate waters beyond the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean. The BDMLR…

A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge