Science & Engineering
The reason the TV helps you sleep is simpler than most people think
By the Space Daily editorial team. This article describes the published science on sound masking and sleep.
Science & Engineering
A pair of American satellites built to catch the Soviets cheating on a nuclear test…
In the late 1960s, a set of United States satellites built to watch for clandestine nuclear weapons tests began recording brief flashes of gamma radiation that matched no bomb.
Universe
In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught…
In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth saw the light arrive.
Science & Engineering
A remarkable new study suggests pigeons may navigate using their liver
A study published today in Science proposes that homing pigeons may sense the Earth's magnetic field using iron-loaded immune cells in their livers.
Earth & Life
The Aztecs built an agricultural system in the 14th century that produced seven…
The Valley of Mexico sits at an altitude of approximately 2,240 metres in a basin that, in the early fourteenth century, was largely covered by an interconnected system of shallow freshwater lakes.
Human Behaviour
What the brain does when you stop filling every spare minute
American time-use research can tell us a great deal about how people divide their days, but it does not support a clean historical claim that Americans spent 47 minutes a day “doing nothing” in 1938 or that the figure has fallen to almost zero.
Tech Space
Brussels just quietly carved out two-thirds of a key satellite band for European…
The European Commission moved to reserve two-thirds of a coveted satellite spectrum band for European operators, a decision that directly threatens SpaceX's…
Constellations
New evidence suggests Saturn's rings are younger than the dinosaurs
The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn's rings are around 400 million years old.
Science & Engineering
A single aspen grove in Utah called Pando is one organism sharing a 106-acre root…
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, weighs 6,000 tons, contains 47,000 genetically identical trunks across 106 acres, and may have been cloning itself for up to 80,000 years.
Space & Missions
In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk…
On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying two cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev, the mission…
Space & Missions
The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some…
Finland's Posiva Oy is preparing to begin the first operational disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository, at the Onkalo site on Olkiluoto island.
Science & Engineering
A new meta-analysis suggests omega-3 may reduce both hot-headed reactive aggression…
This article is a reading of the published research and surrounding coverage, not medical advice.
Psychology
Brain scans of new fathers show measurable changes
Ask a father about the first year after his child was born, and a particular phrase tends to surface eventually.
Science & Engineering
Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases
Most of the psilocybin research that has made headlines over the past decade has carried an implicit qualifier: this is for people for whom nothing else has worked.
Science & Engineering
The gold in an ordinary wedding ring was not made on Earth, or even inside an…
The popular version of where gold comes from has become almost a set piece. The metal in a wedding ring was forged in the collision of two neutron stars, drifted through space for billions of years, and ended up in the Earth's crust to be mined.
Science & Engineering
The science of why some people seem to age dramatically slower than others is…
By the Space Daily editorial team. This article is general science reporting, not personal medical advice.