Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
How many cosmic particles are passing through your body at any moment?
Every second of every day, Earth is bombarded by particles from outer space. Some of these particles are…
Spiders are barely noticed underfoot, but a peer-reviewed 2017 estimate put their annual global prey kill at 400–800 million tonnes — a range whose upper end is about twice the roughly 400 million tonnes of meat and fish humans consume each year
Most of us file spiders under one of two headings. Either they are pests to squash or usher…
A fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she’d made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ten years old she became co-author of a published paper on a structure nobody had ever described
The lesson at Border Star Montessori School in Kansas City, Missouri was as routine as chemistry teaching gets.…
Dolly Barrels Toward Caribbean, Bringing Drought Relief And Flood Threats
Tropical Rainstorm Dolly is tracking west-northwest at 26 mph toward the northeastern Caribbean, carrying heavy rain that promises…
The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos.
Everything directly available to our senses belongs to the smallest slice of the standard cosmological budget. Stars, planets,…
Việt Nam looks to move from quantum ‘back end’ to core technology
Researchers at Phenikaa University work in a laboratory as Việt Nam expands its research and training capacity in…
Nova Scotia father and son haul hooked bald eagle out of lake, safely free it on shore
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
If the Sun vanished right now, Earth would go dark eight minutes later — but if its sound could cross space at the speed it travels through air, the Sun’s final roar would continue reaching us for nearly 14 years, because light travels 874,000 times faster.
If the Sun could disappear in a physically impossible instant, Earth would not notice at once. The last…
What you need to know about Hurricane Lala recovery: Equipment access continues to impact restoration of some Hawaiian Electric customers
Updated at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 29, 2026. While Hawaiian Electric crews made significant progress repairing utility infrastructure, there…
How many neighbours did planet Earth lose? We may have lost planet 9 and trillions of comets from our Solar System
The Solar System didn’t always exist as we know it today. It’s about 4.5 billion years old and…
Large alligator spotted near City Park walking trail
Wildlife officials catch 7.5 foot gator at City Park, looking for a larger one NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana…