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Science
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Scientists Warn Of Atmospheric Risks As Musk’s Starlink Satellites Dominates The Skies
28 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists are sounding the alarm as companies like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, race to blanket the skies with tens of thousands of internet satellites.
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Something Fascinating Yet Ominous Happens To The Human Brain While In Space
25 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists took a deep dive into the minds of astronauts who spent six months aboard the International Space Station—and the findings are equal parts fascinating and a touch unsettling.
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NASA Satellite Maps Uncover ‘Mind-Blowing’ Threat to Coastal Towns Worldwide
17 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It is advised for those living in coastal communities to brace for the impact of extreme weather events by taking steps to build climate resistance in their home.
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Film Director Peter Jackson Donates $10 Million To Help Bring Back The Dodo
04 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Jackson joins a group of celebrity investors who have now already contributed a total of $235 million to help Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences bring back the extinct creatures.
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Snow Warnings? Where Is Spring And Why Is This October So Cold? The Weather Service Explains
02 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
We sure have had one of the wettest and most bone-chilling winters yet, so we are all lus for some solid sun.
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Earth Is About To Get A Second Moon, But Only For A Short While
19 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While this may not be the first time we’ve seen something like this happen, it is still a fun phenomenon.
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Scientists Use Ingredient Found In Doritos To Turn Mouse’s Skin Transparent
09 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The capacity to briefly make skin translucent could offer a variety of benefits in biology, diagnostics and even cosmetics.
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A NASA Spacecraft Collision Might Have Caused A Meteor Shower That Will Last For 100 Years
04 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
New research suggests fragments of Dimorphos will arrive in Earth and Mars’ neighbourhood within one to three decades,
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You’re Not Going To Believe It But A Startup Wants To Sell You Sunlight At Night From Space
28 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
They’re doing it by sending a big mirror into space, aboard a satellite that’s able to point said mirror in such a way as to reflect the sun’s light onto a precise location on Earth.
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Scientists Have Found A Reason Why Eating Dark Chocolate And Cinnamon Can Be Dangerous
01 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
We can’t have anything nice anymore.
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Supercomputer Figures Out Recipe For Otherworldly ‘Superdiamonds’ Harder Than Any Known Material
31 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s fastest supercomputer has just come up with a recipe to forge superdiamonds here on Earth when they likely only exist in the cores of giant exoplanets.
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So, Now The Sharks In Brazil Are Also Getting High On Cocaine
23 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It is not known how the sharks have been feeding on the drug, but a bunch of theories exist.
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Harvard Researchers Suggest Aliens Could Be “Walking Among Us”
16 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A recent paper from researchers at Harvard University has put an interesting twist on one of humanity’s biggest questions; are we alone in the universe?
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‘One Giant Pee For Mankind’ – Spacesuits That Recycle Astronauts’ Urine Are Now A Reality
15 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
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Cape Town Will Host A Global Astronomy Gathering Next Month
12 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Like a Woodstock for star nerds, over 2,000 international astronomers will descend on Cape Town for the first global astronomy gathering on African soil.
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Chinese Rocket Crashes After ‘Accidental’ Launch, Sending Locals Scurrying [Video]
01 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
On Sunday, a privately owned Chinese space rocket met a fiery demise near a bustling city.
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Astronauts Are Stuck In Space After Boeing’s Starliner Issues Delay Return ‘Indefinitely’
24 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
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Scientists Warning That Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Could Damage The Ozone Layer
19 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the low-earth orbit internet satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminium oxides.
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Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found In Ancient Treasure Stash Stokes Researchers
31 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Amidst a trove of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects, made with what researchers believe is metal from some far-flung place, may be the most precious of all.
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Disturbing Video Shows AI-Powered Head Transplant System
24 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Honestly, this video alone might make you lose your head all together.
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In Case You Missed The Southern Lights Show On Full Display Over Parts Of South Africa On Friday [Images]
13 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
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NASA Releases New Visualisation Of What It Would Be Like To Be Swallowed By A Black Hole [Video]
09 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
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The Karoo Telescope That’s Transformed Our Understanding Of The Cosmos
23 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
As South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure project of the last 30 years since democracy, MeerKAT has become a beacon of space innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
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Scientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar System
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
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James Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
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NASA Wants Human Guinea Pigs To Test Out Life On Mars
18 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
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NASA Found A ‘Super-Earth’ That Might Possibly Be Habitable
07 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
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Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Humans Don’t Have Tails
06 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
About half a billion years ago most of the vertebrates on earth had tails, but migration from trees to a more land-based environment is believed to have hastened our tail loss.
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SA Orca Duo Port And Starboard Are Blowing Scientists’ Minds Again – Lone Hunt Of Shark Filmed In Mossel Bay [Watch]
06 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Researchers were nearby to record the event, with one saying it was both “devastating and intensely powerful”.
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Strange Structure In Antarctica Is Stoking The Imagination Of Many [Video]
04 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Piercing through layers of snow and ice, the strange structure has been raising eyebrows worldwide.
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