Aurora lights: The science behind the dazzling nighttime spectacle
The northern and southern lights have been treating sky watchers to spectacular shows. But what causes the colors, and why shouldn't you whistle at the aurora?...
The northern and southern lights have been treating sky watchers to spectacular shows. But what causes the colors, and why shouldn't you whistle at the aurora?...
📋 Key Facts ✓ 2025 is likely to be the UK's hottest year on record. ✓ The Met Office has made this prediction. ✓ ...
"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."...
A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth....
The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up...
The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens. (Image credit: D...
Iceberg A23-A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer....
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would l...
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-second-hottest-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434301 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
Led by only the second civilian the country has sent into space, China had started a series of experiments on board its Tiangong space station that could lead to the development of safer and more powe...
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
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Jared Isaacman said the US will return to the moon under Trump's presidency. NASA/Bill Ingalls Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is the 15th administrator of NASA. Isaacman has led and flown on two Space...