With the Artemis II mission launching its astronauts outside Earth’s magnetic field for the first time on 1 April 2026 in over 50 years, NASA is setting up a 24/7 solar watch to monitor potential high-energy radiation threats. According to NASA, the greatest risk to the crew from the sun is from Solar Energetic Particles…
The world is full of surprising facts about the Earth and how we interact with it, even when we don’t understand or appreciate what happens around us. We use a bit of science to sort out the millions of bits of information our feet feel every second. There are many surprising facts about nature, including…
This is especially so in an era where satellite technology plays a critical role in powering everything from GPS technology to banking and military operations. However, the rapid emergence of AI technology has seen many experts raise alarms over the possibility of AI-powered cyberattacks on satellite technology. These technologies, which were created many decades ago,…
Marie Curie’s story is often told through her Nobel Prizes, her discoveries, and the eerie glow of radium in a darkened lab. But there’s a quieter, almost unbelievable detail that tends to get overlooked. According to The Nobel Prize, she refused to patent radium. Gave it away, basically. A decision that, by most accounts, cost…
NASA have made new announcements about major milestones achieved for the Artemis II rocket, with a planned liftoff on April 1, 2026. Very early on March 20, the complete Artemis vehicle, consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, executed a successful rollout to the launch pad after substantial repairs were…
“This universe is finite, its resources, finite…if life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting,” said Thanos, the Mad Titan before he snapped his fingers and killed half of all life on Earth.While movie fanatics and conspiracy theorists may have thought Marvel was hinting at something in the future, the cinematic…
Spring equinox celebrations at Stonehenge At 10:01 GMT this morning, something happened that has been happening for 4.5 billion years, and yet remains quietly astonishing: Earth arrived at the precise point in its orbit where neither pole leans toward the Sun. For one suspended instant, our restless, tilted planet was perfectly balanced relative to its…
One might envision a microscopic creature with its very own built-in engine, an engine whose power is fueled by something surprisingly similar to the power of rocket fuel. Scientists have now discovered exactly that inside malaria-carrying parasites. It is a fascinating look into the ways in which these deadly creatures live. It is a discovery…
The return journey to the Moon is gradually starting to take form as NASA works towards launching its powerful rocket to take astronauts to the Moon. After weeks of testing and repairs, NASA has started rolling its giant rocket to the launch pad to begin a new push towards a historic mission to the Moon….
Reverberant sounds made in an empty environment are the result of sound waves bouncing off hard, flat surfaces, as governed by basic principles of the science of physical acoustics. When completed, the energy of the sound wave travels through space until it meets some boundary surface. In a furnished environment (e.g., living room with furniture),…
The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms. The way we learn the order of the planets is the classroom version of what is actually happening. For instance, Venus is hotter than Mercury and has a surface that looks like it was…
Plastic waste has long been treated as one of the world’s most persistent environmental problems. Bottles pile up in landfills, drift into oceans, and linger for decades without breaking down. Yet a surprising shift in thinking is beginning to take shape. Scientists are no longer looking at plastic purely as waste. Instead, it seems they…
Crescent moon (Image source: Canva) The crescent moon is one of the most recognisable things in the night sky. At dusk or dawn, a lot of people have seen a thin, curved line of light in the sky. This shape is caused by the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. The Moon doesn’t make…
Lockheed Martin designed NASA’s Quesst mission. An experimental aircraft called X-59 is being tested as a significant part of this mission. It will attempt to fly at a speed of Mach 1.4 (approximately 925 miles per hour) and create a much quieter sonic thump rather than the normal loud sonic boom that shakes windows all…
At first glance, the soap foam appears to be quite simple: it is light, airy, and most often white. However, there is a great deal going on behind the scenes, with many tiny bubbles and a great amount of physics and light. If you have ever noticed that a solution of soap appears to be…
A £1 million research project led by the University of Sheffield is developing a new generation of “smart” drug delivery vehicles that could deliver chemotherapy directly to post-surgical sites in patients with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, while also opening new treatment possibilities for severe inflammatory skin diseases and difficult fungal…
The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a long history of evolution that started in the water and changed the planet over time. According to scientists, the earliest ancestors of plants were not trees or flowers, but microscopic…
PC: Brookhaven National Laboratory The discovery of what existed before what we consider modern-day matter has led scientists to change their view of cosmology from an explosion to one of looking at it as if it were made up of a primordial liquid. MIT physicists, along with the CMS Collaboration at CERN, were able to…
NASA is keeping an eye on near-Earth objects. One such object is a small asteroid called 2026 FB. This asteroid is expected to pass close to the Earth today. The asteroid is small in size, but it is still keeping the attention of experts. To observe the movement of such objects, ground-based telescopes and radars…
Revolutionising the synthesis of graphene as an alternative to conventional graphite for lithium-ion batteries, UNSW Sydney scientists have created a highly efficient and cost-effective method for transforming low-value peanut hull waste stockpiles into high-quality graphene for batteries through innovative flash Joule heating technology. The process produces super-conductive graphene nanomaterials in just seconds and could dramatically…
