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Scientists have developed a forecasting technique that could reveal the strength of the Sun’s next activity cycle as many as seven years before it reaches its maximum. The method focuses on the number of sunspots present at a newly identified “switch-off” stage in the solar cycle. At this point, the Sun’s most severe space weather…

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an important milestone early this year. On January 26th, 2026, scientists from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) demonstrated this new alert system’s ability to rapidly respond to astronomical phenomena identified by space telescopes. Within minutes…

Science word of the day: Autotroph Pronunciation: AW’-tuh-trohf What it means: Autotrophs are organisms that can feed themselves with inorganic substances such as light (for plants) or methane (certain microbes). Autotrophs were the first single-celled life-forms to colonize the planet, thriving on chemicals bubbling up from the subsurface at deep-sea vents or figuring out how…

“Mare’s tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails,” runs an old English saying about summer skies. Mackerel skies are cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds in regular but patchy rows, resembling the light and dark-scale pattern on a mackerel. The cirrocumulus version is white and wispy, altocumulus is grey and thicker. One easy…

Anthony Fauci, perhaps the most well-known public health figure in America, has contacted covid-19. Health officials said Wednesday afternoon that the 81-year-old Fauci tested positive for the coronavirus, reportedly for the first time. He’s said to be experiencing mild symptoms currently. Fauci is the long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…

Criw Compostio picks up waste, as well as wood shavings from a carpentry business and used rabbit and guinea pig bedding from pet owners, twice a week. It is then taken to a processing site in Machynlleth “so we’re travelling a very short distance” where they have specialised composters. “They’re like hot, rat-proof hyper composters…