Science
Scientific discoveries, research breakthroughs, and the advancement of knowledge.

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? - Quanta Magazine
One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it.
Scientists drill 33 feet into a vanishing Alpine glacier to recover a 2,000-year climate record revealing - The Times of India
Science News: Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2,000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed long befor.

How did a captured German rocket, launched from a New Mexico desert in 1946, produce the first photograph of Earth from space using a 35mm camera bolted into its nose cone? - Space Daily
The first photograph of Earth from space wasn't taken by an astronaut or a satellite, but by a camera strapped to a weapon of war, surviving the very machine that carried it skyward.

Satellite spots a 'hummingbird' in Antarctica photo of the day for July 23, 2026 - Space
Important glacier data can appear as a beautiful bird.
"I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Suddenly out of nowhere the massive school of fish parted and a great white emerged from underneath…" - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Majestic great white shark swims amongst a massive school of Australian salmon in Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast of Australia.

RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground - Boing Boing
Desert kites are knee-high stone walls forming traps kilometers long. Over 6,000 are known, some 10,000 years old.

Should Artemis IV astronauts actually land near the moon's south pole? Artemis II pilot says the lunar equator might be better - Space
Victor Glover has a thing or two to say about NASA's lunar landing plans.
The James Webb Space Telescope's disappearing 'Little Red Dots' may lead to another cosmic puzzle - Yahoo
Just as the dinosaurs didn't disappear but rather evolved into birds, cosmic dinosaurs in the form of the JWST's Little Red Dots may fade away completely.

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day not because they are lazy but because their hunting strategy requires explosive short-burst energy — and a body that can sprint at nearly 50 kilometres per hour needs most of the day to prepare for a few seconds of - Space Daily
What looks like laziness is actually a predator's metabolic masterpiece: cats need most of their day to fuel the milliseconds when they strike.

Could small-team science be dying out? - Nature
The proportion of one- and two-author papers in the Nature Index is shrinking rapidly, as science done by big teams continues to surge.

Humans Can Echolocate, And It Changes The Wiring of The Brain - ScienceAlert
Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world.

10 Amazing Explanations for Cosmic Conundrums - Listverse
Around a century ago, astronomers believed our Milky Way encompassed the entire universe. Then Henrietta Swan Leavitt's work on Cepheid variable stars and Edwin Hubble's observations revealed that the mysterious "nebulae" scattered across the night sky were a…
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