UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
Scientists Who Uncovered Altermagnetism Win Major Physics Honor
Altermagnetic crystal: not only the directions of spin polarization (in magenta and cyan) alternate on neighboring magnetic atoms,…
Endangered white-clawed crayfish offered recovery lifeline
Conservations bodies across the north of England are collaborating to prevent the UK’s only native freshwater crayfish disappearing…
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter’s gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, but there may be more liquid water inside it than in every…
New fish are causing chaos in the Mediterranean – and they are heading north
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Total eclipse of the heart: Family channels passion for chasing eclipses around the world into book
SINGAPORE – When Koh Joo Beng, 66, was doing national service as a young man, he was sometimes…
Gil Kalai (Hebrew University / Reichman University): Why noise may doom quantum computers
Yuval Boger interviews mathematician Gil Kalai about his long-standing skepticism regarding scalable quantum computing. Kalai explains two main…
Dolphin survey to monitor species in Channel Island waters
A survey of dolphins, porpoises and whales is to take place in Channel Island waters. The work undertaken…
Ancient Irish volcano provides new clues to modern-day eruptions – The Irish Times
An ancient Irish volcano is challenging scientific understanding of how eruptions occur. The secrets that lie beneath Carlingford…
Drax completes ‘transformational’ £548 million acquisition of solar and wind assets
Drax Group plc is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of renewable energy company Bluefield…
Asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth on 13 April 2029 than many weather satellites do — roughly 32,000 kilometres from the surface — and up to 90% of the world’s population may see it with the naked eye
On the evening of 13 April 2029, a point of light may appear among the stars and move…
First African lions in over a decade born at Blackpool Zoo
Three African Lion cubs have been born at Blackpool Zoo – the first to be born there in…