Category: 7. Science

Inside every cell, a delicate network of protein filaments known as the cytoskeleton provides structure and stability. Actin filaments play a crucial role in this system – these tiny protein strands are continuously assembled and disassembled…

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13/10/2025
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Human classification, from celestial bodies to living organisms, often starts with their morphology. Depending on how something looks, it gets a certain label. This is all well and good until you find the exceptions, so you expand the category….

A milestone has been reached in the search for planets beyond our solar system. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Plato spacecraft has officially completed construction, with the final…

This year is a boom time for comets. Not only did we have the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS gracing our skies (and Mars’) earlier this year, but now we have another brand new comet to look out for.

Expected to be at its brightest on…

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. One of the less obvious effects is the…

air pressure: The force exerted by the weight of air molecules.

atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon.

earthquake: A sudden and sometimes violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great…