Enlarge / The first stage of the Ariane 6 rocket at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou in the French overseas department of Guyana, on March 26, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images Eleven years ago, a panel discussion took place at a space conference in Singapore that has since become legendary in certain corners of the … Read more
What if it is likely that a newly discovered asteroid will hit Earth in fourteen years? But that is not everything. This menacing space rock, with a diameter of about 330 to 1,050 feet (or 100 to 320 meters), has just disappeared behind the sun, making crucial observations impossible for the next seven months. In … Read more
Only in recent years have scientists discovered that not everyone has the sense of an inner voice—and a new study sheds some light on how living without an internal monologue affects the way language is processed in the brain. This latest study, from researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of … Read more