How the weather in space can affect us on Earth – and the team trying to protect us
At the Met Office headquarters, the screens in one corner of the control centre are focussed on close…
Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source
Researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) have identified a potentially important source of low-emission energy beneath Western Australia,…
SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of critical Flight 14
SpaceX just took another step toward the highly anticipated next test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company…
Hydrotherapy pool helps injured fox cub to recover
A fox cub is having swimming sessions in a hydrotherapy pool to help his recovery after he was…
Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres
A whale shark tips nose down, holds its tail almost still, and sinks. The camera watching this is…
Turkiye: 51% New Vehicles are Electric, 60% Power from Renewables, amid Hormuz Energy Shock
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the…
On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA’s Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent ‘8 days in a garbage can’
On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and…
Goliath The Squirrel Monkey: A 1.5-pound squirrel monkey named Goliath was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1961; 35 seconds later, the Atlas E rocket was destroyed after the flight went wrong |
Goliath weighed barely less than a carton of milk and stood just six inches tall, but he became…
New ‘Google-like’ search engine can scan millions of cells for hidden RNA clues in seconds
Malva can search RNA sequences across millions of individual cells in seconds without requiring researchers to download enormous…
Wild blonde capuchin monkeys — an endangered species in Brazil’s dry Caatinga forest already known for using sticks to fish termites — were filmed cracking food open with stones, the first record of stone tool use in this species anywhere
A camera trap in Brazil’s Caatinga dry forest caught something researchers had never documented in this species before:…
SpaceX Christmas Island rocket retrieval small part of Elon Musk’s futuristic quest to dominate the sky
Elon Musk is an ideas man. And, whether you like it or not, some of those ideas will…
In 1971, a Canadian art student visited a fogbound island to draw wild horses; she stayed nearly 50 years studying its wildlife, and Sable became a national park reserve | World News
Representative image of a naturalist observing wildlife in a remote, misty landscape. Image credits: ChatGPT. In 1971, Zoe…