Fiona MacDonald

The Best in Science News and Amazing Breakthroughs

The Best in Science News and Amazing Breakthroughs

The Best in Science News and Amazing Breakthroughs

The wreck of the ill-fated RMS Titanic has long fascinated historians, oceanographers, and filmmakers alike.

We’ve been treated to spectacular skywatching in 2022, with the rare alignment of five planets in June, and a total lunar eclipse back in May.

It’s been easy to feel disconnected over the past two and a half years, despite all the hours spent doing Zoom trivia and online gaming with friends.

Since the first James Webb Space Telescope images were released in July, our feeds have been flooded with mind-bogglingly gorgeous photos of space – from insanely detailed images of Jupiter to the most distant known star.

On Sunday, Earth’s magnetic field was pelted by a solar wind stream reaching velocities of more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) per second.

During a recent expedition to the largely unexplored depths of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, marine researchers stumbled upon something odd: tiny holes excavated in the sediment, all arranged in dozens of relatively straight lines.

Grab any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve and stop. The formulas describe actions we can observe, but behind each could be sets of factors that aren’t immediately obvious.