Aries You have a stronger need for strategy in your life today, dear Aries, but there is a tendency to rush things anyhow. If rushing makes you skip steps, try to slow down. In the first half of the day, you might learn of something helpful that was previously hidden or private. As the day advances, […]

Thousands of mourners and well-wishers lined the streets of Cambridge Saturday morning for the funeral of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. The ceremony was held at the University Church of St. Mary the Great near Gonville and Caius College, which boasts a building named for the iconic British professor. Eddie Redmayne, who nabbed an Oscar for […]

Blue moons, strawberry moons, supermoons. For some reason your news aggregation algorithm of choice thinks you really really really want to know all about these moons. “Catch This Weekend’s AMAZING SUPERMOON,” one headline (or, like, 500 of them) will announce. “The Supermoon Isn’t Actually A Big Deal And You’re All Ruining Astronomy,” another will grouse. On March 31—that’s […]

Astrologically speaking, there has been a lot going on this March. There are not one, but two full moons, meaning we’re going to see a Blue Moon. Mercury retrograde began on Mar. 22, and Jupiter retrograde has also been going on since early Mar. 2018. And now you can add one more thing to the list: a blue moon […]

It started as a loose collection of sky watchers, who braved the cold on countless nights to catch the shimmering colors of the aurora borealis dancing above them. It developed into a friendly argument between amateurs and experts, which erupted over beers one evening at a pub in Calgary, Canada. And it ended this week, […]

On Monday, NASA announced a category G1 geomagnetic storm would hit earth sometime between March 14 and 15. While the idea of a massive solar storm hurtling toward Earth at thousands of miles per second sounds scary, there’s really no need to worry. In fact, all you need to be concerned about is if you’ll be in […]

      Some media outlets have reported that Earth is expecting a “massive magnetic storm” on March 18. That’s wrong, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And they would know: Not only does NOAA help people build forecasts for weather here on Earth, they also predict space weather events like geomagnetic storms. […]

The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years. The project, a collaboration between scientists at MIT and a private company, will take a radically different approach to other efforts to transform […]

Who ever said your Valentine had to be a human? At San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, biologists are celebrating Valentine’s Day with African penguins, the Associated Press reports. A video shows them receiving big red felt hearts from their caretakers and wobbling around with them in their beaks. The California Academy of Sciences’ Vicki McCloskey told the […]

In sports like bobsled, luge, and snowboarding, where thousandths of a second make a difference, it’s not only athletes who are crucial. Hundreds of technicians work behind the scenes to help teams adjust to conditions that change by the day, if not the hour. States shook up the luge world order Sunday night, becoming the first non-European […]