Category: 7. Science

There is a certain beauty in an empty glass jar. So unbroken and well-manufactured, it is a symbol of potential.

Taking the last sips from a bottle of wine or finishing off a jar of pasta sauce invokes, in some, the urge to clean and repurpose the…

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a leap forward in telescope technology since Hubble was launched in…

Humans weren’t just along for the ride in prehistoric Europe – they were already changing the world around them.

Long before farming or permanent villages, small groups of hunter-gatherers were shaping the land. We are only just beginning to…

NEW YORK — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year.

The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle, so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. A so-called…

When we start talking about Earth’s origin, there are many theories on the table that have been tossed around for years, with the Big Bang hypothesis often leading the charge. But thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have homed in…

When we start talking about Earth’s origin, there are many theories on the table that have been tossed around for years, with the Big Bang hypothesis often leading the charge. But thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have homed in…

A new video from the ESA shows how a candle flame behaves in microgravity, showing a rounded, pulsing glow unlike the elongated flames seen on Earth. The footage, released on ESA’s multimedia channel, was recorded during ESA’s parabolic…

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second.

To snap atomic activity, you’d need a shutter that clicks a lot faster.

With that in mind, scientists unveiled in…

On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and some of the most laughable) movies…