Unlikely team uncover source of mysterious space lights seen in Queensland
ABC News Australiaby Bryn Wakefield28 Aug 2026
Orbs of light streaking across the night sky below the planet Venus are fascinating Queensland sky watchers.
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Mail Onlineby Fred Kelly28 Aug 2026
- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source The geology of western Peru. Cornish pioneers in South Africa. The defunct Eastern Counties Railway. Cheeses of the world.
The discovery of the Great Barrier Reef's whale maternity ward
Phys.orgby Australian Government Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority28 Aug 2026
The discovery of the Great Barrier Reef's whale maternity ward It started with a simple message: "This is the year to do something small for something huge."
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch: How to watch live
Mashableby Elisha Sauers28 Aug 2026
If the weather plays nice, NASA plans to launch its next flagship space observatory this Sunday, and viewers can watch the coverage live online from home.
Gruesome Discovery Shows 17th-Century Villagers Were Terrified of What Lurked in 'Grave 75'
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving28 Aug 2026
Polish countryside, 17th century. A young woman from high society is buried in a remote cemetery away from the village, because of the manner of her death.
Historian solves mystery of concrete pillars unearthed at Sydney beach
ABC News Australiaby Declan Bowring28 Aug 2026
In short: A dozen concrete pillars mistakenly thought to be part of an old pier at Sydney's Coogee Beach were actually part of shark observation towers, a local historian says.
Earlier swathing opens a new pathway for subterranean clover seed harvest
Phys.orgby AgriFutures Australia28 Aug 2026
Earlier swathing opens a new pathway for subterranean clover seed harvest Subterranean clover's ability to bury its seed supports pasture persistence but makes commercial seed harvesting difficult.
Flood-Ravaged Nepal on Alert as Scientists Warn of Additional Risk - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Bob Berwyn, Nicholas Kusnetz28 Aug 2026
Residents and rescue workers in flood-ravaged valleys of Nepal faced the threat of a new wave of inundation Friday, as scientists warned that debris had blocked rivers upstream, forming fragile...
How an MIT graduate student helped a team of young scientists test their experiment at CERN
MIT Newsby Ana Georgescu | Laboratory for Nuclear Science28 Aug 2026
This past spring, MIT physics graduate student Manu Srivastava opened an email from a group of high school students in India he had never met.
NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency's LunaRecycle Challenge - NASA
NASAby Bailey G. Light28 Aug 2026
NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, which focused on developing solutions for...
Eyes Up, Stargazers! Here’s What You Can See in September Night Skies - CNET
CNETby Joe Hindy28 Aug 2026
It’s been an eventful summer for skygazers, with a full solar eclipse, the Perseids meteor shower and a nearly full lunar eclipse taking center stage.
President Donald Trump signs order creating US Space Academy
Al Jazeeraby Evan Semones28 Aug 2026
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing the country’s first-ever Space Academy.
The NinjaHydra Sense goes viral for water filtering magic
Mashableby Bethany Allard28 Aug 2026
Another week, another Ninja product gone viral. This time, however, the viral videos are spurring awe rather than abject horror (please clean your Creami correctly, folks).
NTA declares UGC-NET June 2026 results for 84 subjects
The Siasat Dailyby Indo-Asian News Service28 Aug 2026
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday, August 28, declared the results of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination for 84 subjects.
Human-in-the-Loop Without Killing Throughput | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Priyansh Bhardwaj28 Aug 2026
Three weeks after we put a text-to-SQL agent in front of our internal analytics team, someone asked it to "clean up the test rows in the promotions table."
Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot
The Independentby Marcia Dunn28 Aug 2026
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year received the nation’s highest space honor on Friday.
Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life
Phys.orgby Karyn Hede28 Aug 2026
Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life Some of nature's most important chemical reactions rely on the coupled movement of...
Free-falling atoms in space put a new twist on Galileo’s gravity test
Science Newsby Emily Conover28 Aug 2026
An experiment made famous by Galileo has been shrunk down to the atomic level and shipped off to space.
President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award - NASA
NASAby Jessica Taveau28 Aug 2026
President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen with the Congressional Space Medal of...
NTA releases final answer keys for UGC-NET June 2026, complaints follow
New Indian Expressby Express News Service28 Aug 2026
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday night released the final answer keys for the UGC-NET June 2026 exam. It has been released for 84 out of 87 subjects.