Science

Source: Earth via X (formerly Twitter) The night of 5 December 2025 offered sky watchers a final lunar spectacle as the full Moon rose into view under a widely recognised seasonal name and a striking orbital alignment. Known traditionally as the Cold Moon, this full Moon coincided with the last supermoon of the year and…

Comet 3I/ATLAS reveals glowing coma, plasma and dust tails from ESA’s Juice mission/ Image: European Space Agency Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has made a kind of second career out of being the person in the room who refuses to leave “aliens” off the table. With 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted passing…

Doctors warn microsleep is the sleep they fear most, a 1–30 second blackout where your brain stops processing anything, often with your eyes still open. People often imagine danger creeping in when they stay awake too long, the nodding head, the heavy eyes, the drift into sleep they try to fight off. What they don’t…

Observations of the sky recorded thousands of years ago continue to play a remarkable role in modern science, demonstrating that careful human observation has long-lasting value. One particularly significant record comes from ancient China, which documented a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These records include descriptions of the timing and duration…

Scientists’ understanding of Late Cretaceous ecosystems is changing as a result of an amazing finding made in the untamed centre of Bolivia. The biggest known concentration of dinosaur footprints ever discovered is found in a site called Carreras Pampa in Torotoro National Park. There are an astounding 16,600 tracks there, all of which were left…

Sentinel-6B, which was launched on November 17, is the latest satellite in a series of spacecraft used by NASA and its partners to record sea levels since 1992. Their data has aided meteorologists in storm forecasting, infrastructure protection, and coastal community planning.After launch, Sentinel-6B began data cross-calibration with its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, to give…

For centuries, humanity has believed that life and death exist as two fixed states with nothing in between. Either the body functions, breathes and responds, or it stops forever. However, recent scientific discoveries are questioning this long-held view. Several researchers have found evidence that certain cells taken from a dead organism can continue to function…

With the launch of Sentinel-6B, a new environmental monitoring satellite developed as part of a multibillion-dollar worldwide program, NASA has made a major advancement in its long-term climate monitoring mission. Launched in mid-November atop a SpaceX rocket, the satellite is expected to provide highly precise data on sea-level rise and atmospheric conditions, letting scientists follow…

A Washington study linked sleep above 6.5 hours to cognitive decline Most of us worry about not sleeping enough, the bleary mornings, the heavy eyelids, the sense of running on fumes. What almost no one considers is the opposite problem: the idea that getting too much sleep might quietly work against your brain. It sounds…

NOAA hydrophones recorded the 1997 “Bloop,” a sound so loud it travelled over 3,219 kilometres underwater. Nearly 30 years after it was first recorded, people are still arguing about a single sound from the deep ocean. The “Bloop,” a strange, powerful underwater noise picked up in 1997, has been folded into YouTube conspiracies, Lovecraft memes…