Tag: Science

Artemis astronauts at the outer edge of human space travel had an emotional moment Monday (April 6, 2026) as they named a crater in honour of the deceased wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman. “It’s a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to call it Carroll,” Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen told a...

The four astronauts embarking on NASA’s lunar flyby became on Monday (April 6, 2026) the humans to travel furthest from our planet, as they get set to view areas of the Moon never before seen by the naked eye. The Artemis II team broke the previous record set by 1970’s Apollo 13 mission, which they...

The ​four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission entered the moon’s gravitational sphere ⁠of influence early on Monday (April 6, 2026) morning as they cruised along a path that will soon take them over the shadowed, lunar far side to become the farthest-flying humans in history. The Artemis II ‌crew, flying in their Orion capsule...

The Artemis astronauts entered the final phase of their run-up to a lunar loop on Monday (April 6, 2026), a tipping point of sorts that means the Moon’s gravity is now having a stronger pull on the spacecraft than Earth’s. The Orion capsule will now whip around the Moon, setting the crew up to travel...

A seven-year-long project in the US that analysed 3,900 claims from research papers in social sciences has revealed that results from about half the papers examined for reproducibility were precisely reproducible as they yielded the same result when the same analytical method was applied to the same data. The findings help provide a picture of...

Many people have reported moments when the sense of being a distinct self ‘loosens’. Among astronauts, it is called the overview effect while deep-sea explorers report a similar shift sometimes called the underview effect. Both involve sudden changes in perspective in which the usual boundary of ‘me’ briefly softens, as if the vastness they encounter...

In February, researchers from IIT-Bombay, the Indian Statistical Institute, and IISER-Kolkata reported that fossil beds in the Dwarka Basin date back to the early Miocene epoch. They identified 42 species of snails, including four new to science, that indicated the area was once warm and rich in nutrients. The findings are expected to help scientists...

A: Octopuses often live solitary lives and rarely encounter mates, which means they need to be very good at recognising other octopuses if they are to have reproductive success. Now, researchers have found that male octopuses have a specialised arm, known as the hectocotylus, as a sophisticated sensory organ to identify females. Scientists previously thought...

More than 50 years after humans first flew around the Moon, Artemis astronauts will repeat the feat on Monday (April 6, 2026) and use the most basic instrument to study it: their eyes. Despite the technological advancements since the Apollo missions, NASA still relies on the eyesight of its astronauts to learn more about the Moon....

Migration is the movement of birds across long distances, from temperate to tropical regions during winters, and vice versa. The birds move to areas with more or increasing resources and to stay within the climate niche to which they are adapted. They also migrate short distances up and down mountains around the world. And a...