Category: Science & Engineering

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean’s surface from the depths known as the hadal zone. Yet for as much as we know what lurks in its cold darkness, it might as well be another world. The life that flourishes down there is also downright alien. A new study has […]

A team of theoretical physicists has proposed a new way to test one of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity: gravitational memory. This effect refers to a permanent shift in the fabric of the universe caused by the passage of space-time ripples known as gravitational waves. Although these waves have already […]

Intuitive Machines IM-2 Mission Landing Live Stream – YouTube Watch On Watch Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar landing live! Houston-based company Intuitive Machines is poised to land its second spacecraft on the moon today (March 6). The lander, a Nova-C vehicle named Athena, is flying the IM-2 mission as a part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload […]

Treatment for two rather than one may help prevent another bout of a common and unpleasant vaginal syndrome. For many women who develop bacterial vaginosis, the syndrome returns weeks or months after treatment. A clinical trial of women in monogamous relationships with male partners found that treating both partners significantly reduced the likelihood of recurrenceresearchers […]

The typical adult in the UK spends nearly two hours on social media per day. And for younger users, this can easily be up to five hours. The likes of Instagram or TikTok seem to draw us into their ever-changing feeds and it’s difficult to tear ourselves away from these platforms. Now our latest study […]

The patient: A 30-year-old man in Singapore The symptoms: The patient visited the emergency room with a bloated stomach and gut pain. What happened next: When doctors examined the man, they found his abdomen was swollen and distended. They ordered an X-ray but the scan did not reveal any air pockets in the patient’s abdominal […]

Blue Ghost had its eyes wide open during its epic moon landing last weekend. On Sunday (March 2), Blue Ghost — built and operated by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace — became just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon, coming to rest in the near side’s Mare Crisium (“Sea of Crises”) […]

Hawaii’s male crickets can’t hide from their buzzing boogeymen for long. In just a handful of years, cricket-killing parasitic flies have evolved hearing that’s more sensitive to their prey’s new, covert love songs, researchers report February 20 in Current Biology. The nocturnal fly Ormia ochracea lays its eggs on crickets, which hatch into larvae that […]

On a dynamic planet like Earth, it can be easy for drivers of change to go unnoticed – but scientists have now established and investigated an unexpected link between the Sun and our homeworld. Sunspots, and therefore solar activity, cause seismic activity, according to a team led by computer scientist Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha of […]

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Very chebbi, morocco (31.07988204, -3.986015555) What’s in the photo? A group of large “star dunes” near the edge of the Sahara desert Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the International Space Station When was it taken? Dec. 21, 2023 This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen […]