Category: 7. Science

The year 2025 was a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid – 2024 YR4 – on course to collide with Earth.

The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to virtually non-existent, but it…

Galaxy NGC 1275 is the brightest member of the Perseus Cluster, an excellent target to try for during tonight’s dark window.

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• Researchers at the University of Waterloo demonstrated a method to securely duplicate encrypted quantum information, effectively bypassing the no-cloning theorem and enabling redundant quantum data storage.
• The…

The fire burning in north-east Victoria near Walwa was so fierce it generated its own weather this afternoon, including a substantial pyrocumulonimbus cloud with lightning and thunder.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as are fire…

The current phase 1 clinical study will assess the safety, tolerability and dosage of IB409, a novel drug developed from a molecule found in Australian funnel-web spider venom by biotechnology company Infensa Bioscience, said a…

In a groundbreaking advancement for terahertz (THz) science and technology, researchers have unveiled a novel approach to free-electron laser (FEL) design that leverages electron microbunch trains to achieve superradiant emission. This…

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of…