How 'Correct The Map' Campaign Is Reshaping Perceptions Of Africa

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Surge pricing: Decoding the rising cost of our digital lives

Fresh water, rare-earth minerals, energy, and a whole lot of carbon emissions. That’s what we’re paying for every email, forward, search, stream and AI query. But how long till the planet runs dry?

Africa Is 7 Times Bigger Than Europe. The World Map We're Used To Is A Lie

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

New NASA mission to reveal Earth's invisible 'halo'

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Mapping out the heliosphere, Earth's protective bubble

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.
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With Local Metal & Big Ideas, 2 Odisha Students Are Crafting Satellites to Rival Nasa-Level Space Tech

Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their space startup Nebula Space Organisation, using affordable local materials ...

In 1883, A Rare, Horse-Like Creature Went Extinct — Here Are The Only 5 Photos Of It (Explained By A Biologist)

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its ...