Nuclear Fusion: The future of sustainable electricity?
Commercial nuclear fusion reactors have been said to be 50 years away for decades, but could we be close now?
Category: Physical Sciences
How to view the Northern Lights: Solar Maximum predicted in 2024
Ethereal lights have appeared in the skies several times this aurora season so far. In the Northern Hemisphere, this atmospheric phenomenon is known as the northern lights or aurora borealis, while in the...
Gaia: A decade in space, mapping the Milky Way and more
Since Gaia’s launch a decade ago, the space observatory has surveyed over 1.8 billion stars, and continues to operate beyond its initial five-year mission.
Parallax: The trickery of eyes that unveils the universe
Why do we see the world in 3D? Let’s try to understand it by exploring the mysterious parallax effect.
Astrogeology: goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
Don’t know the difference between your meteors and meteorites? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a beginners guide to astrogeology and why meteorites are so valuable.
The Artemis Accords: Who writes the laws of the final frontier?
How eight nations are paving the way for a peaceful future in outer space.
2025 is too late
Annabell investigates how a few words may cause us to lose the fight against climate change.
Topology: the mathematics of play doh
Topology is a branch of mathematics, that emerged very slowly from studies of geometry. However, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it exploded into one of the largest fields of pure mathematics,...
