Category: 1. Edi-Choice

From L to R: Isaiah Miguel Blankson, Dr Richard Damoah, Dr Ave Kludze Jr, and Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollen

Ghana is making its mark on the global space scene, thanks to the remarkable contributions of some of its citizens at the National Aeronautics…

We start April with a glorious tableau of planet, moon and stars. The chart shows the view looking west-south-west from London at 2030 BST on 1 April. The last of the twilight will still be visible in the west, but in the rest of the sky the…

An ugly, misshapen blob of glassified soil could rewrite the story of humanity’s technological heritage, suggesting that we began experimenting with copper smelting while we were still hunter-gatherers. Dated to around 10,800 years ago, the…

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday (March 31).

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:52 p.m. EST (1952 GMT) on…

You’ve decided to go see a total solar eclipse. You’ve made a good choice — it’s one of nature’s great events. But which one? That’s easy — the next one. Given that life is short and global pandemics are not unheard of, I…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Flávia Fayet-Moore, a nutrition scientist and the founder and CEO of FOODiQ Global, a nutrition research company. On a March 31 SpaceX flight departing out of…

Meet an Olympian among Britain’s 660 spider species: a palm-of-the-hand-sized arachnid that hunts in three dimensions and can even devour fish.

The fen raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius) is a magnificent ambush predator: harmless to humans but…

Black holes are among the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe. Their gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape them.

For decades, astronomers have tried to understand how supermassive black holes formed and…