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Two green comets — Lemmon (C/2025 A6) and SWAN (C/2025 R2) — are becoming visible from the Northern Hemisphere in binoculars or a small telescope. They’ll get brighter around Oct. 20-23 as the Orionid meteor shower peaks, but comet…

When you look up at the night sky and spot a bright streak of light racing across it, you’re witnessing one of nature’s most mesmerising events- a meteor, often called a “shooting star.” Despite the name, these dazzling flashes aren’t…

“A pressured world” could be one of the reasons a mental health helpline received more than 2,000 extra calls last year, an expert said.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said its helpline received 34,350 calls between January…

The secret to the naked mole-rats’ extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers report. According to a new study, evolutionary mutations in cGAS – an enzyme in the innate immune system…

Winston Elliott Scott knows a thing or two about being in space.

As a NASA astronaut, Winston took trips into orbit in 1996 and 1997 on board two different shuttles, logging just over 24 days in space by taking part in two missions that…

Oct 10 2025

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up your body.

This microbiome has important connections to health in your gut, brain and immune…

Scientists from China and Spain have discovered that adding salt to ice can enable it to generate electricity, opening up the possibility of harnessing clean power in cold environments – with a twist.

The team found that when salt-doped ice was…