Nov 21, 2023 04:01 am UTC| Science
How do crystals form? Alyssa Marie, age 5, New Mexico Scientifically speaking, the term crystal refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely...
Nov 19, 2023 06:22 am UTC| Science
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to Earth. OSIRIS-REx is an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,...
Did this chemical reaction create the building blocks of life on Earth?
Nov 15, 2023 01:41 am UTC| Science
How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, before the current era...
Will Saturn's rings really 'disappear' by 2025? An astronomer explains
Nov 13, 2023 12:31 pm UTC| Science
If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet Saturn. Currently, Saturn is clearly visible in the evening sky, at its highest just after sunset. Its...
Nov 13, 2023 12:23 pm UTC| Science
When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation they might not be able to tell which way is up. This disorientation can lead to...
Is some of the body that collided with Earth to form the Moon still recognisable inside our planet?
Nov 13, 2023 12:23 pm UTC| Science
Scientists have dated the birth of the Solar System to about 4.57 billion years ago. About 60 million years later a giant impact collision between the infant Earth and a Mars-sized body called Theia created the...
Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong
Nov 10, 2023 14:39 pm UTC| Science
One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall within a certain, very...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight