Category: Science

There is a moment each year when the Arctic stops reflecting light and starts holding it. It does not announce itself. Satellites notice first. Then, researchers begin to compare notes. By late summer, the ice that once covered much of the Arctic Ocean has thinned and retreated again, but this time the loss feels sharper. […]

The rolled-up piece of lead contains inscriptions that are barely visible to the naked eye. (Image credit: Archeology in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (AIM-V)) The discovery came from a place no one expected to yield anything remarkable. During routine excavation work for an extension to Rostock’s town hall, archaeologists lifted an unassuming, tightly rolled strip of lead […]

Breakthroughs in scientific research are not always made in experienced laboratories and research teams. Occasionally, they are made by new eyes that are eager to challenge how data is analysed. This is exactly what happened when Matteo Paz, a teenager from the United States, used AI to re-analyse data from NASA’s now-retired research project. Given […]

Meteor showers promise a diverse and exciting year for sky gazing in 2026, ranging from brief and bright outbursts at rapid rates to prolonged and faint displays spread throughout the year. These phenomena are produced when Earth intersects with trails of debris trailed by comets and asteroids, which then result in the fragmentation and ignited […]

Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during this time can sound wrong, almost misleading. January mornings do not feel warmer because of a smaller gap in space. Yet every year, quietly and without drama, Earth reaches that closer […]

Credit – NASA39037_Mars-viking-orbiter-olympus-mons-volcano On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against rust coloured plains. No sharp peak. No obvious violence. Only when scale is added does it begin to feel strange. This single volcano rises higher than anything on Earth and […]

1 Ship to breach Earth’s CRUST Next year, a 600-foot Chinese research vessel will set sail to find the perfect site from where it will start drilling down to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho), the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle. Scientists have been trying to breach Moho since 1961 to study tectonic activity. Moho lies […]

Source: Babraham University Implantation, one of the most poorly understood phases of early human development, occurs in the depths of the womb, at a time when embryos are microscopic and well out of reach. Until recently, much of what was known about this critical moment came from limited indirect evidence. Babraham University researchers have taken […]

Wormholes are one of science fiction’s favourite cheats. Need characters to cross impossible distances? Skip years of travel? Break reality without saying “magic”? Introduce a wormhole.By Season 5 of Stranger Things, the show finally joins a long cinematic tradition. Up to Episode 8, it reframes the Upside Down not as a spooky parallel world but […]

The asteroid Apophis, also known as 99942 Apophis, will have its historic close approach to Earth on Friday, the 13th of April 2029. With its diameter at approximately 375 meters, this NEA will be reaching Earth at a distance of about 32,000 kilometres, just over a tenth of the distance to the Moon. Initial estimates […]