Category: 7. Science

A sunspot that didn’t exist at the beginning of the weekend has since grown into a vast and active region, and it hasn’t taken long to make itself known. The new arrival has already produced a powerful solar flare, one that lingered rather…

Deep layers of molten rock inside large rocky planets have been shown to generate magnetic fields strong enough to persist for billions of years.

Such long-lived shields can decide whether a planet holds onto its atmosphere or is slowly stripped…

If you ever want to pull out the big guns in a pub quiz, then do I have a fact for you! Contrary to popular belief, the biggest organism in the world is not the blue whale. Nor is it the giant sequoia. Nor is it the extinct and admittedly…

Right after the universe began, nothing looked familiar. Space was packed with heat and motion. Matter had not yet settled into atoms or even protons.

Instead, everything existed in a frantic state made of the smallest building blocks, racing…