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Sir Isaac Newton (Image source: Wikipedia) Sir Isaac Newton is widely remembered as one of history’s greatest scientists, best known for his laws of motion and work on gravity. However, less commonly discussed is the fact that Newton spent decades studying theology, biblical texts, and historical chronology. A large part of his writing was not…

“Boomerang” earthquake: The earthquake that can turn around and strike the same area again Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves along a fault line in one or two directions. New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that, in certain conditions, a rupture…

Moon mission delayed again as NASA faces fresh Artemis II technical trouble (Image Source – NASA) NASA is working through a technical issue affecting the Artemis II rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft remain on the launch pad at Complex 39B. Engineers observed an interruption in…

Source: National Geographic The Moon is about to get its own brain. For the first time, real-time artificial intelligence and edge computing have been installed on a lunar rover. The milestone might not make headlines like a rocket launch, but it is huge. 384,400 kilometres from Earth, machines will soon process data instantly, analysing sensor…

Nasa’s Artemis II mission, which recently completed a wet dress rehearsal and was targeting an early March launch window, may now face delays after engineers detected an interruption in helium flow in the rocket. A day after announcing that its ambitious moon mission successfully completed the wet dress rehearsal, Nasa shared overnight observations on Saturday…

Galileo Galilei (Image source: Wikipedia) Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who lived in the 1500s and 1600s. A lot of people think of him as one of the most important scientists in history because he found things that changed how people thought about the universe. Galileo’s work laid the groundwork for…

For almost two centuries, glass jars holding animals collected by Charles Darwin have remained sealed in museum stores. Any attempt to open them risked evaporation, contamination and irreversible damage to some of the world’s most historically important specimens. As a result, much about their preservation remained uncertain. That has now changed. Scientists from the Natural…

Source: Discover Magazine A fossilised dinosaur egg was uncovered in South America, and scientists are calling it a remarkable discovery. The egg is estimated to be around 70 million years old and is astonishingly well-preserved. The find was made by the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates (LACEV) at the Argentine Museum of…

Nasa on Friday set March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for Artemis II, the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon in more than five decades.Senior Nasa official Lori Glaze said additional work at the launch pad and a full dress rehearsal must still be completed before the agency can lock in…

Did alien signals reach Earth? If they did why have they gone undetected For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A new statistical study considers a narrower and more uncomfortable possibility. It asks whether one or more alien signals may already have…