Space & Physics

2024 confirmed as first year to breach 1.5°C warming limit

Scientists warn efforts to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C will fa...

Oil extraction may have triggered over 100 earthquakes ...

Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and...

How worried should we be about a bird flu pandemic?

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about an...

Your ears and nose are made from tissue that looks like...

It turns out that the cartilage inside your ears and nose is different from that...

La Niña is finally here but it won't stay for long

After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the easte...

Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting

Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team M...

Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop

What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the roc...

35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure...

On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, fr...

Keeping space tidy should become a global UN goal, say ...

The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states h...

Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again

Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why...

Achieving Instrument High Accuracy In-Orbit

One of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing from space is achieving requ...

Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard – until...

The process of solving a crossword puzzle is mathematically similar to well-stud...

BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic p...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a rec...

Parents stop finding diapers disgusting once babies are...

The extent to which parents feel disgust appears to come and go, which could be ...

Quantum computers get automatic error correction for th...

A tiny quantum “refrigerator” can ensure that a quantum computer’s calculations ...

NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Indu...

The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

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