How to see two bright, once-in-a-lifetime comets with your naked eye

Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN will be closest to Earth as a new moon sets up prime viewing conditions. Add in a meteor shower and we may get spectacular sky gazing.

The playbook for perfect polaritons: Rules for creating quasiparticles that can power optical computers, quantum devices

Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny ...

Two bright comets will swing by Earth this month. Here’s how to see them

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses uses critical dystopia to challenge us to build a better future

Noughts and Crosses shows systems of oppression at work and how enable racial segregation and traumatise people.
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In Utah, refugee sisters explore the physics of the universe

In many ways, Lina and Neriman's refugee journey from Iraq to Utah parallels that of a cosmic ray: covering great distances, ...

Hidden highways of the sky mapped: How wind, temperature and species dynamics shape aerial habitat distribution

High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different ...