How and When to View the Perseid Meteor Shower (August 2026)
In addition to a historic total solar eclipse, August also features one of the most spectacular meteor showers…
‘Subsidies for fossil fuels … are pouring fuel on the fire’: your questions on fossil fuel profits and the climate crisis answered | Fossil fuels
That’s all, folks!Damian Carrington Thank you for all your excellent and thought-provoking questions. It can sometimes feel bleak…
1-billion-year-old Mars meteorite found in Algeria is like nothing we’ve seen from the Red Planet
A newly found Mars meteorite is revealing the secrets of a previously hidden time period of Red Planet…
New Simons Collaboration Explores Defects in Physics
For centuries, physicists have described how the universe functions based on observations of the natural world taken at…
Study could shed light on declines in red grouse populations, experts say
A new study could shed light on why red grouse populations in Scotland have declined over recent years,…
A 3.6-ton mirror three inches thick sits on a Maui volcano collecting sunlight, and keeping it from cooking itself takes seven miles of coolant pipe, thirteen separate temperatures and about a swimming pool of ice made fresh every night
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Inouye Solar Telescope just photographed something on the sun’s surface that no instrument in human history had…
As the climate breaks down, costs go up: Welcome to ‘climateflation’
If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer…
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Be in Every Car, Calls It the ‘Only Way’ To Connect Billions of Vehicles
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Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How
Some laws of physics are so fundamental that they’ve served as the baseline for science for centuries. But…
Seal pup being cared for by Guernsey animal rescue charity
The last common seal pup which needed rescue washed ashore in poor condition in 2018, the GSPCA said.…
Earth’s Moon is unusually large compared with the planet it orbits, and the leading explanation begins with catastrophe: another world roughly the size of Mars slammed into the young Earth and blasted material into orbit.
Four and a half billion years ago, Earth was barely a planet. It was a half-molten ball of…
Hosepipe ban extension may be considered
Uisce Éireann has said that an extension to the hosepipe ban may have to be considered beyond 26…