Category: 7. Science

New infrared observations reveal the rare interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightening during its farewell tour of the solar system.

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and…

Margie Jamieson to present photos from Mongolia at Have Camera, Will Travel

Published 11:30 am Friday, February 6, 2026

In a breakthrough, Israeli researchers have measured invisible particles known as cosmic rays deep inside a dust cloud 400 light-years from Earth.

The peer-reviewed study detecting these previously unobserved particles could help shed light…

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in nature it came from.

Billions of people likely don’t care at all about such matters, but for those who are naturally…

by Alimat Aliyeva

Scientists at Stanford University have created the first global
map of earthquakes occurring not in the Earth’s crust, but in the
deeper layers of the planet’s mantle. The results, published in…

Iridium oxide is one of the most important — and most problematic — materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is currently the most reliable catalyst used in the conversion of energy to chemicals by electrolysis, a…

The world is home to some truly extraordinary trees. Some grow almost entirely beneath the ground, others are poisonous, and there’s one that’s estimated to be almost 5,000 years old.

Then there are the big ones – the really big ones. Some of…

Around 14 hours before a partial solar eclipse passed over the Dolomites in Northern Italy, a group of spruce trees showed a sudden, synchronized increase in electrical activity. A widely publicized paper by Chiolerio et al. claimed…