Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years
Antarctica’s four-foot-tall Emperor penguin may be the best-known member of the penguin family, but it is far from…
Planetary crisis heightens global inequality of health opportunities
The worldwide inequality of health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis – climate change,…
US Wants To Punish Russian Oil Buyers. But It’s Still Buying From Moscow
Fertilisers are a critical input for agriculture and food production. The growing Russian share suggests that despite efforts…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory detects Aquarius IV, one of the smallest and faintest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way ever seen
In one of the first major discoveries from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, scientists have revealed…
YouTuber Fulfills Lifelong Dream by Blasting Through the Sound Barrier With a Home-Built Trebuchet
YouTuber Tom Stanton has, by his own telling, been building trebuchets since the age of 12. The adult…
Gus Lamont search turns to eagle nests
The family of missing boy Gus Lamont are preparing to search eagle nests at the outback property for…
‘Fire amoeba’ can withstand record-breaking temperatures : NPR
Introducing Incendiamoeba cascadensis, which translates to “fire amoeba of the Cascade mountain range.” This single-celled organism can replicate…
Can This Army of Drones Solve the West’s Water Crisis?
Cloud seeding isn’t a new technology, but Rainmaker’s innovative approach coupled with the driest stretch parts of the…
Astronaut spies city lights, auroras and star trails from the ISS photo of the day for Sept. 22, 2026
City lights in Central Asia sparkle in this photo snapped from the ISS. (Image credit: NASA/Anil Menon) City…
Microsoft Quantum, QOLAB Propose Higher Bar For ‘Scalable’ Logical Qubits
Insider Brief Microsoft Quantum and QOLAB proposed a framework for assessing whether logical qubits can scale into fault-tolerant…
Photographer captures octopus riding rarely seen dolphin, provides valuable evidence for ongoing research
A photographer has managed to capture an incredible moment between a dolphin and an octopus, in which the…
Giant caves beneath sinkhole reveal origin of mystery trenches that score Australia’s Nullarbor Plain
Mysterious trenches stretching for miles across the vast Nullarbor Plain in Australia are the surface scars of huge…