Opt in for EiC in print by 8 December to get the January 2026 magazine and two posters for your classroom. The January posters are on teaching distillation at 14–16 and evaporation, filtration and…
It is worth staying up for this pleasing view of the moon as it encounters Jupiter and the brightest stars of Gemini, the twins. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00:30 BST in the very early morning of 14 October.
Gemini will…
Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the night sky over Vienna during a geomagnetic storm on May 11, 2024. (Photo by MAX SLOVENCIK/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial…
Switching to a high-fat diet containing foods such as fish, berries and nuts could help…
It’s another moon phase tonight, which means the moon will look around half full (or, half gone?). But what phase is it, and what does it mean? Let’s find out.
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A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical…
Lindsay points toward an important issue: the disconnect between research on the sensory processing of complex, natural visual information and…
hydrogen is an important energy source for the future. Therefore, understanding the electrolysis process is essential. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at…
The first step to solving a problem is understanding it, and a common worldwide phenomenon wasn’t properly understood until shockingly recently. With the aid of satellites, researchers can now accurately track the state of the world’s glaciers.
NASA launched three satellites to help provide crucial insights into solar storms, which can scramble communication systems on Earth and pose a threat to astronauts.
Solar storms can impact systems like GPS, radio channels, and the…