Category: 7. Science

Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a beautiful image of a large nebula, whose mesmerizing appearance resembles the silhouette of a bat.

Aircraft and balloons inject aerosols into the atmosphere, dispersing sulfur dioxide and cooling a warming planet. Ships and drones spray seawater particles into low-lying ocean clouds to brighten them, sending more sunlight back into…

The interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is continuing to surprise scientists, this time by brightening at an unexpectedly rapid pace as it made its closest approach to the sun. Experts studying the object don’t yet know why that…

Quantum computing currently faces significant challenges as it progresses from today’s limited devices towards genuinely useful, large-scale machines. Jens Eisert, from Freie Universität Berlin and associated institutions, and John…

During my recent podcast interview with Joe Rogan (accessible here), I had mentioned the unfortunate circumstances, under which NASA had not released for four weeks the images collected by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance…

Divers off Taiwan’s Ruifang District filmed a giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne, in shallow water. The clip surfaced in June 2023 and shows a long, ribbon-shaped fish moving slowly. It drew attention online within days as viewers marveled and…

NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that’s not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel.

The space scientist was tasked with taking notes that the famed…

For years, the “dueling dinosaurs” in a North Carolina museum were believed to be a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex.

However, an article published on October 30 in the journal Nature has a different take: The researchers believe that the T. Rex…