How tiny companies are racing to create ‘impossible’ space crystals worth billions
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” The phrase, often attributed…
Scientists Solve a Superconductor Mystery Hiding in Plain Sight : ScienceAlert
As much as we now know about superconductivity – where a material conducts electrical charge without resistance or…
Meet Yanin ‘Proud’, a 17-year-old Thai student who built artificial hornbill nests from recycled plastic and won two global conservation awards | World News
Yanin (Proud) Tangkaravakoon. Image Credit: The Nation At just 17, Thai student Yanin ‘Proud’ Tangkaravakoon has turned a…
Stunning photos of Blood Moon partial lunar eclipse from Kent
The August full moon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon, lit up the sky over the UK on…
Hollywood exaggerates Martian storms in a specific and measurable way: because Mars’s atmosphere is roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s, a 60-mph gust would push an astronaut about as hard as a gentle 6-to-8-mph breeze on Earth.
The opening storm in The Martian does exactly what a film storm should. It bends an antenna, hurls…
More trees are needed to cool down European cities in heatwaves – but they must be planted nearer to homes
Heatwaves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe’s capital cities this summer, as they…
A newly formed nonprofit plans to launch the first spacecraft deliberately targeted at another star system by 2029 for under $15 million—knowing its 80,000-year journey will end in the distant outskirts of Alpha Centauri long after everyone involved is dead.
The Fermi Explorer Mission has reduced interstellar travel to four deliberately severe requirements. Its spacecraft must be aimed…
Whyalla steelworks sale faces potential delay as locals react to uncertainty
On and off for the past five months, a thick plume of steam has puffed out of the…
Scientists trace 7 stages of a meteorite’s life from hurtling space rock to Earth’s surface
Studying 75 meteorites falling to Earth, scientists have identified the seven stages a space rock goes through as…
LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter
For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible…
For 23 freezing days in Patagonia, a dog named Talero refused to leave his deceased owner’s side — driving away foxes and scavenger birds, hunting small animals to survive, and finally alerting the searchers who found them
When police finally reached the body, the dog climbed on top of it and growled at them. This…
‘How do I not crumble?’ Loved ones of Australians missing in Nepal-Tibet floods fear others are turning away | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
Akash Venkatraman’s parents wished him a happy 22nd birthday before they left for Nepal on a spiritual pilgrimage.…