Surya Grahan Scientific Explanation: A solar eclipse, known in India as Surya Grahan, has fascinated humans for centuries, often wrapped in myths, rituals, and deep spiritual beliefs. But beyond the ...

HALLOWEEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO SPOOKY SEASON? THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES TO THE BIG EVENT AND WE’RE TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER. MARQUISE MEDA SHOWS US HOW AN ANCIENT FORM OF ...

Someday, shadows and light could team up to provide power. A new device exploits the contrast between bright spots and shade to create a current that can power small electronics. “We can harvest ...

Get ready for the strangest of our national traditions. Imagine if aliens arriving in the far future find a newspaper from our time and try to figure out Groundhog Day. “Seems these humans held up a ...

When you consider the solar panel, you likely conjure images of vast open fields, covered in rows upon rows of solar cells, harvesting precious energy from the sun. But what if we could shift that ...

This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow’s shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the ...

In April of this year, NASA nudged the Cassini spacecraft into an orbit that took it through a narrow gap between Saturn’s innermost ring (the D-ring) and the gas giant itself. Over the next few ...