Summer nights are the shortest but also the warmest, making them particularly attractive for sky watching. The coming months will be marked by the best meteor shower of the year in August, the return of several planets and a partial lunar eclipse before the season ends. Here are five things to keep in mind when … Read more
By Jonathan Chadwick for Mailonline 11:39 June 18, 2024, updated 11:41 June 18, 2024 Share or comment on this article: The aurora – a beautiful spectacle of natural light – is usually only viewed from Earth. But lucky astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) got a unique view of the spectacle – with Earth … Read more
Researchers will no longer have to choose between studying a single human brain as a patchwork of fragmented images or a distant, pixelated representation of large structures. A new imaging platform developed by a US team instead seamlessly combines the finer details of brain cells, their connections and contents, with brain-wide maps of entire networks … Read more
I’ve seen some pretty incredible things with my eyes. First, of course, there’s the stunning sight of a dark, star-filled sky, and then there’s the incredible sight of the Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million light-years away. Of course, you can also see planets as they move slowly across the sky, but it’s a little more unusual … Read more