Category: Science

There is a moment most people recognise. A phone battery dips into the red. A charger is reached for without much thought. Lithium sits quietly inside that habit. It powers mornings, commutes, work calls, and late-night scrolling, yet rarely earns attention of its own. Only when headlines mention shortages or mining protests does it briefly […]

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any crew arrives. In meeting rooms, laboratories, and control centres, scientists are already using robotic missions in space to solve small, stubborn problems that humans will one day face. How much radiation reaches […]

It is one of those small irritations that quietly follows people through supermarket aisles. A single cucumber, sealed in clear plastic, sits among piles of fruit that seem to manage just fine without it. The reaction is often immediate. This cannot be good for the environment. Plastic is everywhere already, in rivers, soil, and even […]

Most people never think about where satellites sit once they reach space. They simply assume they stay put, doing their job far above the atmosphere. But for companies operating thousands of spacecraft, orbit height is not a fixed choice. It is a constant calculation. SpaceX has now decided to shift that balance. In 2026, Starlink […]

While the world slowly passed the first days of the year 2026, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station had already lived through the coming of the New Year in a way and a place few people would ever experience. While people on the planet celebrated the coming of the year 2026 once at midnight, […]

For years, the future was imagined in clean lines and loud machines. Flying cars, metal suits, glowing weapons. None of it prepared many people for the idea that espionage might crawl rather than fly. And yet, in a small corner of Germany’s tech scene, insects have become part of a serious conversation about defence and […]

At first, there was nothing dramatic about the galaxy. ESO 130 G012 sits relatively close by cosmic standards, about 55 million light-years from Earth. It is an edge-on spiral with a steady but unremarkable pace of star formation. Nothing about it suggested spectacle. But while astronomers were slowly scanning radio images from Australia’s ASKAP telescope, […]

Some questions arrive quietly. When is the next full Moon 2026 is one of them. It usually turns up while scanning a calendar or noticing the moon hanging a little brighter than usual. The full moon does not announce itself loudly. It simply shows up, round and pale, pulling attention for a few nights before […]

17-year-old boy in the Netherlands temporarily lost the ability to speak his native Dutch after waking from knee surgery/ Representative image When a 17-year-old boy in the Netherlands woke up from routine knee surgery, hospital staff initially noticed something unusual but not alarming. Instead of speaking Dutch, his native language, he was communicating only in […]

Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words perfectly encapsulate humanity’s eternal urge to push boundaries, a spirit that continued in 2025 and was even exemplified in spectacular fashion across space. As we flip through the starry pages of the year, 2025 stands […]