The Sun Can Spawn Dangerous ‘Superflares,’ New Research Suggests
The effects of a superflare on Earth wouldn’t be enough to trigger an ecological calamity, but it would wreak havoc on our high-tech civilisation.
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The effects of a superflare on Earth wouldn’t be enough to trigger an ecological calamity, but it would wreak havoc on our high-tech civilisation.
It’s a shame that so many of the best things in life, when in excess, become poison.
Now anyone can monitor the weather in an area where there isn’t enough oxygen to sustain human life for long.
In addition to contributing to light pollution and obscuring our natural view of the cosmos, SpaceX's satellites could disrupt important astronomical observations.
We might be eating a credit card’s worth of microplastic every week. Yummy.
What’s holding us back from the future?
There's no perfect solution to this, but there are small steps we can all take to help out.
The far side of the Moon contains an enormous and very weird structure at its South Pole. Now, scientists think they might know the source of this anomaly.
It's a remarkable discovery.
Basically, it’s an advanced yet surprisingly simple microscope, with lasers.
How do slugs, unsightly thigh boils, and disease-ridden swamps get that way?
Shouldn’t robots get some credit, too?
An intriguing (but small) study suggests that it’s possible to retrain yourself to go to sleep earlier in just three weeks.
By studying the remains of plague victims, researchers were able to sequence the genomes of plague strains that devastated the Roman Empire starting in the 6th century.
Archaeologists are claiming to have uncovered stone cannonballs used during Vlad III Dracula’s assault on the historic Zishtova Fortress.
