Category: Science & Tech
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Yesterday’s eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and Spain. Baily’s beads, the diamond ring and totality — what each stage was, and what to do if your eyes hurt today.
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Twelve people, ten months in Antarctica, and a finding space agencies didn’t want: too much contact, not too little, was linked to tension. What it may mean for a Mars crew.
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Magnitude 7.4 at 103km deep. What magnitude actually measures, why depth changes everything, and the number that predicts damage far better than either.
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A caldera is not a crater. One is made by an explosion, the other by collapse — and the difference tells you what a volcano has been capable of.
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A wildfire in Indonesia’s Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park is out after 550 hectares burned — but hotspots remain. Why “extinguished” rarely means finished.
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A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and northern Spain on 12 August. Why it happens, what you’ll see — and how to watch without damaging your eyes.
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How is a temperature record actually verified? White screens, standard heights, and the painstaking work of keeping a 142-year series comparable.
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Amazon deforestation fell 37% to 2,874 km², the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 2016. How the figure is measured, what it leaves out, and why it’s still an area the size of Luxembourg.
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A new quantum material works at room temperature, without the ultra-cold refrigeration quantum devices normally need. What that means, and how to read results like it.
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Scientists warn that planned satellite megaconstellations could set off a chain reaction of collisions in low orbit — one that would be very hard to reverse once it starts.