Category: Science

Living on the Moon has usually belonged to long-range planning documents or speculative films, not booking forms. That line may now be thinning. A private company called Gru Space says it is preparing what it describes as the first hotel on the lunar surface, and it has begun taking early reservations. The proposal blends commercial […]

Earth’s orbiting satellites are commonly regarded as if they were suspended in mid-air. It is a fact that they actually experience a state of continuous free fall. This implies that they fall toward Earth continuously, but since they move at a very high speed, they never actually reach the ground.Nowadays, there are more than 13,000 […]

Life in the wild is never constant; animals adapt quickly if they are to survive. Climate change, the reduction of habitats, and human interference are factors that are increasingly affecting natural populations. While certain species adapt well in the wild and can survive easily, others struggle even to survive among the different natural conditions they […]

Some of China’s largest cities are wrapped in air that carries more than dust and exhaust. New research suggests that tiny plastic particles are present in the atmosphere at levels far higher than previously measured. These particles are too small to see, yet they drift above streets, buildings and people each day. Scientists analysing air […]

Andre Yarham. (Pix via Samantha Fairbairn / SWNS) The UK’s youngest known dementia patient, Andre Yarham, has died aged 24, less than two years after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of the disease. Doctors had told his family that, despite his age, his brain showed degeneration comparable to that of a 70-year-old.According […]

Mars had an Arctic-sized ocean, and scientists are only now beginning to see the outline of it. For a long time, the planet has been described as dry and stripped of anything familiar. Yet images gathered over years have kept suggesting something quieter and older beneath the dust. Channels that do not quite fade. Slopes […]

NASA plans a mission to study the Sun’s magnetic heart and its hidden storms NASA has selected a proposed solar mission for further study as part of its Small Explorer programme, extending early design work rather than approving a launch. The mission, known as the Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer, or CMEx, will now move into an […]

This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon departing from the ISS Nasa began its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, bringing back an astronaut in need of medical care along with three crewmates. The four astronauts, from the US, Russia, and Japan, are scheduled to […]

Ancient Roman wine has long been seen as a simpler, rougher version of what we drink today. But new research suggests the opposite. By studying how Romans fermented and stored wine in massive clay jars called dolia, archaeologists now believe Roman wine could have been more complex, stable and flavourful than previously assumed. The study, […]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming home to some aquatic species. AI-generated Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as the light and salt act on them. Far from land, where the sea normally provides nothing to cling to, those shards have […]