Today is the Winter Solstice 2019 – here’s everything you need to know including what it is, and how it’s celebrated around the world If you’re getting sick of how early it gets dark in the UK, you’ll be happy…
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…