“This is Ed Kennedy in Paris. The war is over and I am about to announce: Germany has surrendered unconditionally.” These words ended World War II in the West, but destroyed the life of the man who spoke them. “It’s…
NASA inflates the second ultra-high-pressure balloon before its launch in New Zealand on May 3, 2025. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Rodman) NASA has just achieved a remarkable feat: one of its massive super-high-pressure balloons successfully circled the Southern Hemisphere in just…
NASA is exploring new ways to get its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling proposals to collaborate on landing a water-seeking robot on the lunar surface. VIPER (short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover) is designed to explore the…
The Bible mentions that Jesus was buried in a “new” tomb carved into the rock near the site of his crucifixion, and most scholars believe that this tomb is located in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Peter…
Sir David Attenborough was born in 1926 in the London suburb of Isleworth. (Photo credit: Tim P. Whitby/Stringer/Getty Images) Sir David Attenborough is one of the world’s most renowned naturalists and documentary makers. Over the course of his eighty-year career,…
Mars has wavy soil patterns that resemble those found on Earth. This image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the patterns inside a Martian crater. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona) High-quality satellite images have revealed paint-like patterns on Mars that match those…
A new study has found an “alarming generational gap” in vulnerability to climate extremes. (Image credit: Bloomberg/Contributor via Getty Images) Scientists warn that newborns today will face climate extremes on a scale never seen before, with the poorest bearing the…
An asteroid flies past Earth. Research suggests there may be a hidden group of lunar fragments orbiting our planet. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Earth’s mini-moon may be a fragment of an ancient block: A new…
The shingles vaccine helps prevent the reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox. The chickenpox virus remains in the body after the initial infection and can later lead to shingles. (Image credit: Albany Times Union/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images) Compelling…
This false-colour satellite image shows swirling films of organic material on the surface of the Gulf of Gdansk taken in 2018. Scientists were only able to identify them five years later. (Image credit: ESA/Copernicus) This stunning false-colour satellite image shows…