It’s a new month, and while the Moon may appear totally full, we’re still a couple of days away from this yet. But in the meantime, there’s still lots to spot on its surface. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Sunday, March 1, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA’s Daily Moon
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In the late 1800s, physicists discovered what is now called the Hall effect. It occurs when an electric current flows through a material while a magnetic field is applied at a right angle. Under those conditions, a voltage appears across the material in the sideways direction. In simple terms, the magnetic field pushes negatively charged
Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new nanomaterial designed to destroy cancer cells from the inside. The material activates two separate chemical reactions once inside a tumor cell, overwhelming it with oxidative stress while leaving surrounding healthy tissue unharmed. The work, led by Oleh Taratula, Olena Taratula, and Chao Wang from the OSU
In June 2024, scientists off Baja California confirmed the first live sighting of the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, a deep-sea creature previously known only from stranded remains. The encounter, secured with a tiny skin sample, ended a five-year search and reshaped understanding of the whale’s range. Beaked whales are among the least understood marine mammals on
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which performed a flyby of the ice giant in 1986. It came within just tens of thousands of miles of the
That pile of shirts you just dropped off at the charity shop? There’s something you should know about where those donated clothes are really going. Most of us grew up believing a simple story. You clean out your closet, drop off the clothes you don’t wear anymore at a donation center, and someone who needs
To make our new hedgerows as diverse as possible, we are planting a fruit tree every 200 metres in them, and last winter we planted a new apple and damson orchard at Low Park, our abandoned farm. This morning, I am popping some additional fruit trees into the hedges and checking on the orchard. The
Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often, a scientific discovery makes the past feel unexpectedly personal. A new Neanderthal DNA study has done just that. Researchers analysing ancient genomes now suggest there may have been a clear partner preference when modern humans and Neanderthals
Stargazers across the U.S. will be treated to a dramatic orbital display in the early hours of March 3, as Earth’s shadow falls across its natural satellite, giving rise to a“blood moon” total lunar eclipse. Over 3.3 billion people across the Americas, Asia and Oceania will get a glimpse of the climactic blood moon phase,