Former WWII test site at Great Barrier Reef’s Fairfax Islands returns to health
There is almost no sign of human interference on the remote islands on the southern end of the…
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter’s gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, but there may be more liquid water inside it than in every…
Hell-World Venus May Have Once Had Oceans Across 90% of Its Hot, Dry Surface : ScienceAlert
It’s hard to picture two more similar yet different worlds than Earth and Venus. Our own world is…
All of Europe’could catch fire this weekend: Where is most at risk?
In the latest apocalyptic weather turn, an EU agency has warned that we could see “all [of] Europe…
Interstellar Travel: The Space Age and Nuclear Rockets
The Universe is unfathomably huge, with over 2 trillion galaxies in an “observable” volume measuring 93 billion light-years…
No species left behind: how Spain saved its animals from wildfire
While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think…
Did this giant, prehistoric 1.8m tall wombat inspire a man-eating mythical monster…?
Australia was once home to giant marsupials, relatives of today’s kangaroos and koalas. The largest amongst them was Diprotodon, a…
Fires in France, Spain wear ‘the fingerprints of climate crisis’
Stefan Rahmstorf took this photo while on holidays amid the fire emergencies gripping south-west France.(Stefan Rahmstorf)”What climate will…
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an…
Fermiology-driven goniopolar transverse thermoelectricity in kagome metals
Yin, J.-X., Lian, B. & Hasan, M. Z. Topological kagome magnets and superconductors. Nature 612, 647–657 (2022). Article …
To protect endangered mountain gorillas, this wildlife vet empowers their human neighbors
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was just 26 when she became the first wildlife veterinarian in her home country of…
Cooperative sperm may improve fertilization success across diverse arthropods
Fertilization is often imagined as a frantic race, with millions of sperm competing for a single prize. But…