Falling Space Debris Could Soon Become a Global Safety Issue, Scientists Warn - The Daily Galaxy
Rising space launches and advanced heat-resistant materials are allowing more debris to survive reentry, increasing risks on Earth.
Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms - ScienceAlert
Museums are among the most expansive resources humans have created.
An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth - CNN
An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.
Albert Einstein Speaking to His Son in 1900: "Life Is Like Riding a Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving" - The Daily Galaxy
He wrote it to a son he was losing. Decades later, Einstein's most famous quote means something entirely different than most people realize.
The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver? - Ars Technica
This is such a wild ride. The highs are high. The lows are low."
SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say - Space
"Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants."
Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he died - Space Daily
Stephen Hawking died in March 2018. In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange. It has confirmed, item by item, almost every warning he spent his final decade trying to make people listen to. The climate accelerated past lines he…
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission - Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, and runs on about one kilowatt of power. Many household electric kettles draw more than that. The kilowatt figure comes from NA…
There is a moment near death, documented in EEG recordings of dying patients, when the brain produces a coordinated burst of gamma wave activity more intense than anything measured in waking life — and no one knows what it is, what it's for, or what the - Space Daily
In the final minutes of life, the dying brain has been observed producing a synchronized surge of high-frequency electrical activity that exceeds anything recorded in healthy, waking humans — and the scientific literature still cannot say what it means.