Archaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatory(arstechnica.com)

67 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 51 comments

Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery(arstechnica.com)

105 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 40 comments

NASA's oldest active astronaut is also one of the most curious humans(arstechnica.com)

10 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 3 comments

Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum(arstechnica.com)

29 points by dev_tty01 3 years ago | 20 comments

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew(arstechnica.com)

87 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 26 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet(sciencealert.com)

208 points by thread_id 1 month ago | 126 comments

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip(space.com)

351 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 155 comments

Space.com news article explaining that the sun's magnetic field is about to reverse during solar maximum and what effects to expect on Earth.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 9 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.

The concurrence of three climatic events(climatecasino.net)

360 points by xemoka 3 years ago | 192 comments

A blog post on Eliot Jacobson's climate blog giving an overview of concurrent climate anomalies in 2023, including record global temperature departures.

Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources(19thnews.org)

445 points by benwerd 3 months ago | 175 comments

Blog post by Ben Werdmuller linking to The 19th's story about former NOAA staff rebuilding the defunct Climate.gov resource as Climate.us using open data.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.