NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the…
MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main sequence…
A female that’s around 8cm can produce 1 million larvae, while larger individuals can produce as many as 2 million larvae in a single event
Although it rarely forms pearls, the European native oyster is an important species in British waters where it…
Drought cripples large swathes of southern Queensland amid severe hay shortage
For the first time in his 28-year career, Greg Finlay’s hay sheds are empty. Mr Finlay, a 58-year-old…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of its…
“You’re looking at one of the wildest landscapes on Earth and watching a species that almost nobody has ever studied.“
Researchers have uncovered new information about a rare rodent known as the Wolffsohn’s viscacha, allowing them to reclassify…
CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei
The ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin…
How to Prevent Biofuels from Causing Deforestation – Energy Institute Blog
A tax on food uses of vegetable oils could insulate global vegetable-oil prices from U.S. biofuel policy, thereby…
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across…
After beloved Jackie the eagle’s death, fans turned on her caretakers – washingtonpost.com
After beloved Jackie the eagle’s death, fans turned on her caretakers washingtonpost.com‘Awed by nature’: fans mourn California’s beloved Jackie…
Cambrian Explosion May Have Been Triggered by Primitive Animal Feces — BigGo Finance
Fossilized feces from primitive marine animals have been identified as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion—the dramatic…
Pygmy blue whale beaches and dies off NT coast in first sighting for Gulf of Carpentaria
A pygmy blue whale has beached itself and died on the coast of Groote Eylandt in the Northern…