"When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

— William Shakespeare
Julius Cæsar

Astronomy

The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige
Categories: Astronomy

Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
Categories: Astronomy

Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
Categories: Astronomy

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick
Categories: Astronomy

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick
Categories: Astronomy

Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
A new information ecosystem is on the rise, featuring closer connections, cosy media and worker-owned websites, writes Annalee Newitz
Categories: Astronomy

Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and goes a little off the rails
Categories: Astronomy

Tapping into the full power of music could transform our lives

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
From reducing pain to relieving stress, the evidence for music's power is strong. Stefan Koelsch says we should use it – now
Categories: Astronomy

Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
A new information ecosystem is on the rise, featuring closer connections, cosy media and worker-owned websites, writes Annalee Newitz
Categories: Astronomy

Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and goes a little off the rails
Categories: Astronomy

Tapping into the full power of music could transform our lives

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
From reducing pain to relieving stress, the evidence for music's power is strong. Stefan Koelsch says we should use it – now
Categories: Astronomy

Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought
Categories: Astronomy

Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa

Space.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
A long-standing mystery about the presence of hydrogen peroxide on Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa may be closer to being solved.
Categories: Astronomy

Space Force's Golden Dome chief says space-based missile interceptors are possible today. 'We have proven every element of the physics'

Space.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:23pm
The head of the Trump administration's Golden Dome program says the technologies needed to create such an ambitious space-based missile defense system already exist.
Categories: Astronomy

Webb Space Telescope Spies Baby Planetary System

Sky & Telescope Magazine - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:04pm

Astronomers have found a baby system that’s just beginning to build planets — and it can tell us about how and where planet formation starts.

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Categories: Astronomy

U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:00pm

Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets

Categories: Astronomy

Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is packed with water ice that could be older than Earth

Space.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:00pm
Scientists have examined the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, finding evidence that it is packed with water that could be older than the solar system.
Categories: Astronomy

Heat Dome’s Extreme Heat and Humidity Triggers Alerts across Eastern U.S.

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:45pm

High humidity and low overnight temperatures will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week

Categories: Astronomy

Ozzy Osbourne's journey through space, time and sci-fi: A Tribute to the 'Prince of Darkness'

Space.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:29pm
A Space.com obituary for the ‘Prince of Darkness' Ozzy Osbourne.
Categories: Astronomy