The International Space Station (ISS) is reaching the end of its life, with agencies around the world planning for its demise in around 2030. This orbiting behemoth has been continuously occupied for nearly 24 years by astronauts and cosmonauts from...
After surviving building collisions, around 60 per cent of birds die in rehabilitation careJeffrey Ji/Shutterstock More than 1 billion birds in the US may die from colliding with buildings each year – a significant increase from many past estimates. Despite...
Terraforming Mars would make the planet more like Earth and better able to sustain life as we know itDETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Releasing glitter-sized iron rods into Mars’s atmosphere could warm the planet enough to melt water and support...
Blackworms are ultra-fast swimmers, and they tangle up into worm balls to protect themselves from predators – but leeches have an ingenious method of catching them called “spiral entombment” Source link...
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on the International Space StationNASA NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) until February 2025 after issues cropped up with the spacecraft they rode to...
Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and Flooding along East CoastSome parts of the southeastern U.S. have seen more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm Debby, and rain will keep moving up the coast in the coming...
Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our three-dimensional understanding. This breakthrough solves a decades-old geometry problem by...
COVID-Positive Olympic Athletes Are Still CompetingSeveral athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have come down with COVID, but they are still allowed to competeBy Saima S. IqbalAdam Peaty of Team Great Britain competes in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final...
What Does the 'Hobbit' Fossil Discovery Teach Us about Our Tiny Human Relatives?A tiny human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a...
I am an only child. Saying this sometimes feels like a confession – not least when people respond with a well-meaning “oh, you don’t seem like it!”. Now, as the mother of a preschooler, I see my daughter navigating the...
