British soldier regiment ‘Lions of England’ stalked by pack of hyenas in Kenya
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SLU Researchers Uncover Blueprint for Sustainable Agriculture
ST. LOUIS – In a new study published in Nature , Saint Louis University School of Medicine researchers…
U.S. Oil Drilling Continues to Inch Upward
By Julianne Geiger – Oct 09, 2026, 12:31 PM CDT The total number of active drilling rigs for…
Mysterious 10-minute X-ray burst from a distant galaxy may have come from 2 dead stars colliding
Astronomers investigating mysterious flashes of X-rays believe that these blasts could stem from collisions between neutron stars, the…
Atomic-scale visualization of three-dimensional magnetization vectors with competing spin Hamiltonian interactions
Fernández-Pacheco, A. et al. Three-dimensional nanomagnetism. Nat. Commun. 8, 15756 (2017). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Coey,…
Wildlife carers stunned by surge of premature flying fox births across NSW
Experienced wildlife carers have been overwhelmed by unprecedented rates of flying foxes giving birth to premature pups across…
Our Solar System May Be Destroyed 100 Times Faster Than We Thought : ScienceAlert
The cosmos wavers between predictable stability and wild chaos, which troubles our sense-seeking brains. In our local Solar…
Man fined $10k over illegal dump that left Whittlesea City Council with $3m clean-up bill
A man has been fined $10,000 for running an illegal tip on land leased from a suburban Melbourne…
NASA Seeks US Industry Plans for Commercial Space Stations
NASA is advancing American leadership in space by taking the next step toward a future where commercial space…
Reduced incidence of little red dots at z < 3 based on number density and halo mass evolution
Labbé, I. et al. A population of red candidate massive galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature…
If You Find A Translucent Orb On The Beach, It May Be An ‘Ancient Critter’ About To Hatch
If you’ve spent time on the Mid-Atlantic Coast or Delaware Bay, you may have seen a horseshoe crab…
Scientists develop tattoos you can turn on and off
A tattoo you can turn on and off sounds like science fiction, but a team of engineers has…