Technology

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a high-speed gravity assist flyby of Mars, capturing detailed time-lapse imagery of the Red Planet while testing its scientific instruments and deep-space optical communications system on its multi-year journey toward the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. The encounter harnessed the planet’s orbital momentum and gravity to accelerate the probe and slightly … Read more

NASA researchers examining data from the MAVEN mission have uncovered a local process akin to Earth’s Dandy cycle above magnetized Martian crustal regions. Simultaneously, the Psyche spacecraft captured a time-lapse of Mars during a planetary flyby, providing scientists a rehearsal for its 2029 asteroid arrival. A lost NASA spacecraft has handed scientists the key to … Read more

Researchers at the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada have captured ultraweak photon emissions from living mice and plants, revealing a faint biological glow that vanishes immediately upon death. The findings offer new potential for non-invasive medical and agricultural diagnostics. Life leaves a subtle light signature, and death quietly turns it … Read more

Environmental groups and scientists have submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warning that plans to launch millions of orbital data centers could be “catastrophic” for the planet and permanently alter the Earth’s atmosphere, according to reports from NewsNation and The Guardian. The push for space-based computing comes as big tech companies face … Read more

Landwirtschaftsminister Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) presented the draft bill for a new centralized „Wasserentnahmeregister (water abstraction register) during the second Trinkwasser-Gipfel. The draft legislation, which was initially announced at the beginning of June, was formally transmitted to the coalition partners. The proposed system aims to track high-volume water consumers across sectors such as industry and agriculture, … Read more

Researchers have discovered that sperm whales blow bubbles while resting vertically just beneath the ocean surface, a mechanism that helps these breath-hold divers counteract expanding lung gases and maintain neutral buoyancy during short 10- to 15-minute napping bouts. Sperm whales are known for their dives into the deep ocean. But when it is time to … Read more

While mapping a camping trip on Google Maps in 2024, an amateur astronomer in Quebec stumbled upon an unknown 15.5-wide circular pit. Scientists recently confirmed the remote Côte-Nord site is a 390-million-year-old meteorite impact crater, officially named Uhackatik after consultations with the Ekuanitshit Innu Council. What started as a routine search for vacation routes on … Read more