Category Archives: Science and Health

There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world’s oceans combined — and if you marked every atom in one glass, dumped it into the sea, and waited for the oceans to mix completely, every glass of water on Earth would contain several thousand of those marked atoms

The arithmetic is one of the oldest and most reliable demonstrations in physics, and the conclusion is one of the harder facts about the size of atoms to actually believe. A standard 250-millilitre glass of water contains roughly 25 trillion trillion atoms, written as 2.5 × 10²⁵, accounting for the three atoms in each water […]

Why is the idea of a Blue Moon so enchanting? Over 100 years of pop culture fascination

What is it about the Blue Moon that inspires us to write songs and name beers after it?

Watch the smallest full moon of 2026 tonight in this rare ‘Blue Moon’ livestream

Don’t miss 2026’s smallest full moon with this livestream from Italy with the Virtual Telescope Project. The ‘Blue Moon’ livestream will begin at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT).

Inside Europe’s largest Copper Age tomb, children’s bones expose an ancient health crisis hidden for 5,000 years

Nearly 5,000 years ago, respiratory infections, possibly including tuberculosis, were ravaging the children buried at Camino del Molino (CMOL), Spain. The massive circular burial cave carved into rock …

Scientists Intrigued by Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years

An amputated sea cucumber tissue survived for years in a natural environment, leading researchers to declare it immortal.

A violent volcanic eruption may have revealed a new weapon to tackle a potent planet-heating gas

An underwater volcano violently erupted in the South Pacific in 2022. The chemical reaction that happened afterwards could show humans how to slow global warming.

The Blue Moon rises tonight: Where and when to see the second full moon of May

The second full moon of May takes to the night sky tonight. Here’s what to expect.

CWG Live updates: Sunny with a breeze today, and more nice days on the way

We’re living the weather good life until further notice.

Don’t Miss May’s ‘Blue Moon’ Rise Tonight — Exact Times For Saturday

The second full moon of May rises this weekend — here’s exactly when and where to see the so-called Blue Moon at its best.

There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide and almost completely empty, and if our galaxy sat at its centre, we might not have discovered that other galaxies existed until well into the twentieth century.

In the direction of the constellation Boötes there is a roughly spherical region of space, around 330 million light-years across, in which almost nothing is found. It is called the Boötes Void, sometimes the Great Void, and it is one of the largest known empty regions in the observable universe. Its centre lies about 700 […]