Category: 9. Sci-Tech

After the excitement of three visible comets in 2025, another may put on a show in late April 2026. However, although the comet, known as C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), could become bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, it could just as easily…

HEFEI — Researchers have identified a method to surpass the plasma density limit in experiments with the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), known as the “artificial sun,” providing a crucial physical…

As fires burn the landscape, they spew airborne gases and particles, though their impact on air pollution might be underestimated. A study in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology reports that, around the world, wildfires and…

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), a funding body dedicated to high-risk, high-reward research, hit the headlines last year, when it awarded £57 million in funding for a range of projects centred on controversial approaches…

Science fiction is full of fantastic stories about planets entirely populated by machines, but there is actually one of those in our own cosmic backyard: Mars.

The Red Planet has had robots beeping and bleeping on it for decades – landers and…

We’re kicking off January 2026 and a brand new year of stargazing with a beautiful supermoon that, tonight, will appear close to Jupiter in the evening sky.

Yes, the good news is that this week, we’re about to get the first of three supermoons in…

The year 2025 was extraordinary for Lake Eyre (also called Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) in South Australia. Water started flowing into the often-dry, salty plain at the continent’s lowest point in early May after torrential rains in Queensland