Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe
Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe…
Beavers are emerging sooner in spring amid warmer weather
The most anticipated day of my year is “BDay” — the first day when beavers are spotted on…
Spain wildfires: British hikers found with severe burns after crying for help
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Sovereign space access for Germany and Canada: Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services sign contract to advance orbital launch capability from Spaceport Nova Scotia
Halifax/Munich, 07 July 2026 – Space company Isar Aerospace and spaceport operator Maritime Launch Services Ltd. (CBOE: MAXQ,…
Numbat conservation efforts pull native species from brink of extinction
Numbats, Western Australia’s animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population…
Vantablack: World’s Blackest Paint Could Solve A Major Problem For Astronomy : ScienceAlert
Low Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded with satellites, and they’re quietly erasing our view of the Universe.…
A23A Iceberg: Bigger than London, larger than Goa: After 40 years, the world’s largest iceberg ‘A23a’ has vanished
Some things become so familiar that you almost assume they’ll always be around. For scientists studying Antarctica, iceberg…
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever
A company just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called…
An octopus has three hearts, blue blood and around 500 million neurons, two thirds of them not in its head but spread through its arms, so each arm can taste, decide and act almost on its own.
An octopus looks like one animal, but its nervous system is arranged more like a living network. The…
Super El Nino will hit women the hardest, charity warns: ‘We should be very worried’
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, used Mars as a gravitational slingshot in May 2026, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to gain the speed it needed — Mars as a stepping stone rather than a destination
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft did not go to Mars because Mars was the destination. It went there because Mars…
Berkshire picks Brimstone as its top butterfly in vote
The vote took place as part of Butterfly Conservation’s first nationwide poll to name Britain’s favourite butterfly, with…