Milestone: Principles of inheritance discovered
Date: Feb. 8 and March 8, 1865
Where: Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic
Who: Gregor Mendel
On a cold day in February, an Augustinian friar described his experiments breeding garden-variety…

Milestone: Principles of inheritance discovered
Date: Feb. 8 and March 8, 1865
Where: Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic
Who: Gregor Mendel
On a cold day in February, an Augustinian friar described his experiments breeding garden-variety…

The internet is alive with UFO reports at the moment, the excitement sparked by a comet identified as 3I/ATLAS. Comets are not uncommon visitors to our solar system, but this is a rare type. Its speed, its path and its composition identify it as…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense sources of high-energy radiation that scientists detect on Earth in the form of gamma rays.
They were first detected in the 1960s by US military satellites looking for nuclear detonations on Earth, which saw…

SpaceX successfully sent another batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday (Feb. 7), just five days after standing down in the wake of an anomaly during its prior launch.

The Store Glacier in Western Greenland is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world. When I say fast, I mean fast for a glacier. Store can move up to 20m per day.
Back in 2016, I visited Store as part of a documentary crew hoping film a…

Keep calm and try omega-3. The fatty acids, available as dietary supplements via fish oil capsules and thought to help with mental and physical well-being, could also cut down on aggression, according to a 2024 study.
These findings haven’t…


You might want to consider mixing up the different types of exercise you do throughout the week: a new study has found a significant link between a greater variety of physical activities and a lower mortality risk.
Researchers from the Harvard…


Hidden in the rugged landscapes of Morocco’s Central High Atlas Mountains lies a discovery that could change everything we know about the origins of life on Earth. While exploring the region’s ancient rocks, geobiologist Rowan Martindale…