Category: General

This August 2025 is going to be full of celestial events. First up, in early August, the full Sturgeon Moon will illuminate the night, then the moon will pass near Neptune and Saturn, and later a conjunction between Venus and Jupiter will…

Key Takeaways on the Speed of Earth’s Rotation

• The speed of Earth’s rotation is about 1,000 miles per hour relative to its axis.

• Your exact speed of rotation due to Earth’s spin depends on your latitude. The farther you are from the equator,…

The mustard battle starts at quarter after. Do we have everybody lined up for…

A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the result of a divorce between Greenland and Canada some 80 million years ago.

A study by an international team of researchers…

An organised underground network of individuals and groups is enabling fraudulent research…

The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have…

Transparent-faced fish glide through the murky depths, snow-like detritus drifts from above,…

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very…