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Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, sees two comets approach their brightest — and perhaps even be visible to the naked eye. Comet Lemmon (also called C/2025 A6) and the dimmer Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) are on different journeys, with the former…
Category: 7. Science
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Why You Should Leave The City This Week As Aurora, Meteors And Comets Peak
The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak overnight on Tuesday, Oct. 21, through Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, just as Comet Lemmon gets closest to Earth on its journey through the inner solar system.
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Light pollution is a scourge and, this week,…
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How to see Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN in October- Earth.com
It’s time for stargazers to turn their telescopes toward the night sky. October is setting the stage for two cosmic visitors.
Two newly discovered comets, C/2025 A6 Lemmon and C/2025 R2 SWAN, will sweep across the sky this month.
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CRATERs identified as key sites for T cell-mediated tumor destruction
Like the surface of the moon, new research published today in Cell finds the existence of craters on the surface of melanoma cells that serve as immune hubs, becoming major sites for tumor killing. These craters could serve as good…
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‘Changing faster than we ever imagined’
Many of the world’s top climate scientists are sounding the alarm over a number of rapid changes currently impacting Antarctica and its vulnerable ecosystems.
What’s happening?
As global temperatures have steadily risen over the years, their…
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New 3D human brain tissue platform integrates all major brain cell types into a single culture
A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown from individual donors’ induced…
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Footprints show two extinct human ancestor species lived together
Water pulls life together. Shorelines turn into busy corridors where birds, hoofed mammals, and different species of human ancestors, or hominins, crossed paths.
At Lake Turkana in northern Kenya about 1.5 million years ago, a short-lived window…
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Asymptotic Safety Explores Black Holes, Ensuring Ultraviolet Completeness Without New Degrees Of Freedom
Black holes present a unique challenge to modern physics, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of gravity and spacetime, and researchers are increasingly turning to the concept of Asymptotic Safety to address these complexities. Andrea…
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