New images from the Nordic Optical Telescope, in the Canary Islands, Spain. The evolution of the glow around 3I/ATLAS shows a transition from an anti-tail towards the Sun to a tail away from the Sun….
The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona reaches temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius, while the surface below barely tops 5,500°C. This heating…
A prehistoric hominin that lived more than four million years ago in Ethiopia may have climbed like a chimp and walked a bit like a human. Known as Ardipithecus ramidus – or Ardi for short – this extinct primate may therefore have served as a…
If you’d swung by to see the chimps at Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, back in 1997, there’s a good chance you might’ve received a rock to the head. It was around this time that a male chimpanzee called Santino had started exhibiting an…
They’ve become as ubiquitous on British high streets as coffee shops – bubble tea outlets offering their Instagram-worthy drinks in countless flavour combinations.
The Taiwanese beverage, a blend of black tea, milk, sugar and chewy tapioca…
A Möbius strip made with paper and adhesive tape. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where…
