The Ursids Meteor Shower will peak this evening, providing you with one final chance to see a shooting star in 2019 If you’re a fan of stargazing, make sure you mark tonight off in your astronomical calendar. The Ursids Meteor…
Santa’s sleigh – disguised as the International Space Station – is expected to be visible from the UK for a brief three minutes on December 24 With less than a week to go until Christmas now, children around the world…
Junior doctor Farah Roslan had the idea for disposable sterile hijabs while undergoing her training at the Royal Derby Hospital A hospital trust is the first in the UK to give female Muslim doctors and medical staff disposal hijabs to…
NASA’s supersonic plane, dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, could take to the skies as early as 2021 NASA has unveiled a supersonic plane that’s as fast Concorde, but without the deafening sonic boom. The plane, dubbed the…
On Oct. 22, 2017, storm clouds gathering above the central United States released a flash of lightning so huge that it illuminated the skies above Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Horizontally spanning more than 310 miles (500 kilometers) across these three…
The optical illusion was developed by Mike Pickard and Gurpreet Singh from the University of Sunderland, and was a finalist in the 2019 Illusion of the Year competition From the seemingly endless staircase to ‘The Dress’, many optical illusions have…
The model on the right shows water flow in northern Greenland in the presence of a valley extending under glacial ice. SAN FRANCISCO — Far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls miles of bedrock — and…
A close-up view of the wingtip ESM sensors, or electronic support measures, on a U.S. Navy E-6A Mercury aircraft. To create the E-6B, Boeing modified the E-6A, adding various specialized equipment. A U.S. Navy “doomsday” aircraft, meant to survive a…
First place went to this colorful, fluorescent image of a tiny turtle embryo. Technicolor photos of delicate embryos, feathery mosquito headgear, a spider’s facial “hair” and an explosion of light in a frozen water droplet were just a few of…
Google’s Sycamore chip is kept cool inside their quantum cryostat. Google just took a quantum leap in computer science. Using the company’s state-of-the-art quantum computer, called Sycamore, Google has claimed “quantum supremacy” over the most powerful supercomputers in the world…
Seven supersonic jets of plasma collide during an early test firing of the Plasma Liner Experiment. Generating endless energy with zero emissions by just slamming hydrogen atoms together has been somewhat of a pipe dream for decades. Now, scientists may…
The mind-bending calculations required to predict how three heavenly bodies orbit each other have baffled physicists since the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Now artificial intelligence (A.I.) has shown that it can solve the problem in a fraction of the…