Category: Science & Technology

In the Northern Hemisphere, winter is coming – and with it the usual cavalcade of respiratory viruses. COVID-19 continues to loom large with the latest

You ever looked at Oklahoma and thought, huh? What’s up with that long thin bit sitting on top of Texas like that? Or Maryland, the

This week on Break It Down: the Sun has entered its solar maximum bringing new auroras and geomagnetic storms, a chance find of a thylacine

Eclipses are not exclusive to our planet. While the Moon certainly makes it spectacular, often covering the Sun completely (at least for the next 600

A new preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, has suggested that playing video games is associated with better cognitive abilities, but does not

Ovulation – it’s the point at which an egg cell is mature enough that it’s ready to leave its cozy home inside a fluid-filled sac

Indulge us for a minute: if you’ve got your phone to hand, pick it up and take a selfie. Which way did you turn your

With a depth of 592 meters (1,943 feet), Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States. It’s so deep that a

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission did something that seemed only possible in science fiction or mythology: It moved a celestial body. Asteroid Dimorphos, the

The Antonov An-225 Mriya was the biggest plane to ever take to the skies. Unfortunately, the colossal aircraft is no longer with us as it

Toxic molecules might be extremely common in both tap and bottled water in many places around the world. Analysis of drinking water from 15 countries

Relics of the distant past, as well as recent tragedies, dwell within the cerulean depths of the Great Blue Hole in Belize. The Great Blue

The concept of singularity, the moment when machines become smarter than humans, has been discussed and debated for decades. But as the development of machine learning

Throughout October early risers get to see more meteors than usual, thanks to several showers, particularly the Orionids. The Orionids are one of the longer

From time to time, every few hundred thousand years or so, the Earth’s magnetic poles have been known to “flip” – but why? And what

The migration of wildebeest in a massive loop around the plains of the Serengeti is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular events on Earth, but

A team of physicists say they have created the first coherent picture of atomic nuclei from their composite particles, quarks and gluons. The 20th century