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The powerful NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has just delivered absolutely mind-blowing observations of its first X-class solar flare. On 8 August 2024, the telescope managed to capture one of the most powerful flares our Sun is capable of producing – at a remarkable resolution of just four Earths across. This level of detail reveals some of the finest structures we’ve …

The last total lunar eclipse of 2025 can be seen by 77 per cent of the global population. It will be visible in Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. However, the best scenes will happen in Asia and Western Australia, according to Time and Date. People in Europe and Africa will only be able to see a part of the totality. …

A fossilized dragonfly wing unearthed in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park has been identified as a brand-new species, marking the first dragonfly fossil ever found in Canada’s dinosaur-aged rocks. Credit: Alex Anderson Discovery reveals a previously undocumented 30-million-year gap in dragonfly evolution. For the first time in Canadian paleontology, a fossilized dragonfly wing from the Cretaceous period has been identified as …

Recent research indicates that shark teeth, some of nature’s most efficient cutting tools, are increasingly vulnerable to environmental changes in ocean chemistry. A 2025 study published in Frontiers in Marine Science investigates how shifting ocean conditions might compromise the structural integrity of predator teeth, providing critical insights into the ecological consequences of global carbon emissions. Ocean Acidification And Its Impact …

In 1978, while inspecting a faulty detector inside the Soviet Union’s most powerful particle accelerator, physicist Anatoli Bugorski was struck in the head by a proton beam traveling close to the speed of light. Amazingly, Bugorski remains alive to this day, and while government secrecy prevented details of his medical assessment from being leaked, researchers have now reconstructed the path …

While aerospace stock Boeing’s (BA) space ambitions have not exactly gone well in the past—the less said about the Starliner debacle the better, at least for now—there are some signs it might be able to get some credibility back. In fact, Boeing recently saw the launch of the X-37B space plane for the Space Force. Investors were modestly pleased, and …

Mysterious ‘alien’ comet puzzles NASA scientists  Chron James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results  Space Is it a comet, or an alien spacecraft? Here’s what one Harvard scientist says  NBC Boston A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS  Avi Loeb – Medium NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is latest …

Scientists have traced the brightest known fast radio burst to its origin in space, a milestone achievement they hope will provide clues about what’s driving these mysterious cosmic flashes.  The powerful signal, FRB 20250316A, was first spotted in March by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia. The burst lasted less than one-thousandth …

An internationally joint research group between Singapore and Japan has unveiled a blueprint for arranging exotic, knot-like patterns of light into repeatable crystals that extend across both space and time. The work lays out how to build and control “hopfion” lattices using structured beams at two different colors, pointing to future systems for dense, robust information processing in photonics. Hopfions …

Humans have been walking on two legs for millions of years. Credit: Nick Veasey/SPL via Alamy All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but there is only one that uses it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back 5 million years, but the precise evolutionary process that allowed this to happen has …