How and when to see a double meteor shower this week
A double meteor shower peak will occur this week — but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching…
NSW police say ‘body’ of woman found in suitcase by side of road near Goulburn was not human | New South Wales
What appeared to be a woman’s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road near…
Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling
Voyager 1’s power test came back at the end of July, and by Kareem Badaruddin’s own account it…
New report says “toxic garbage water” from landfills getting too close to drinking water
New York River Watch released a new report this week, “The Leachate Loophole in New York State”. The…
Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, but most of the distance from its centre to…
Forget Lasers—Researchers Just Created Quantum Entanglement Using Sunlight
Lasers are no longer required to produce quantum entanglement, physicists say, after achieving the state using sunlight. In…
Federal changes could threaten Midwest’s plovers, dragonflies
As temperatures hovered around 80 degrees and few clouds obscured a bright blue sky, many people took the…
Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle northern hemisphere this week | Meteors
The Perseid summer light show is back, and viewing conditions are especially promising across the northern hemisphere. The…
How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke | Air pollution
Miquette Thompson’s home in rural Mendocino county has been covered in smoke all week. There are the nearby…
‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data | Solar eclipses
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik…
A new wave equation for light challenges how physics explains the arrow of time
A new wave equation suggests accelerating waves can move only toward positive time, offering a possible microscopic explanation…
Washington couple’s $850K dream home hid thousands of bats — and insurance denied the $200K cleanup
shutterstock.com / clarst5 Tom Riecken and Mackenzie Powell thought they had found the perfect family home on Washington…