A 14-kilometre iceberg cut off food supply to an Antarctic penguin colony, and chick numbers dropped by 69% in one breeding season
How one iceberg changed everything for Antarctic penguin colony When it comes to nature, it often reminds us…
Rats are transforming coral reefs by wiping out seabirds
Rats show up on a tropical island as stowaways, and the birds that used to nest there start…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Saturn’s moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop…
What is the breakthrough in China’s artificial sun project? A 6.5 Tesla magnet
New Delhi: China’s superconducting magnets have passed key tests at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of…
Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth’s coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization
Happy Shark Week, science fans! To mark the occasion, we had a flurry of fishy features this week,…
What A 400-Year-Old Shark Can Teach Us About Human Longevity
Plate showing the Northern lemargus (lamargus borealis) or Greenland shark. Book “Voyage en Islande et au Groenland” by…
Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities…
Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
To confirm that the observed signal was indeed caused by a moon, the research team also examined other…
China hopes to banish blackouts as quantum tech puts power grid in superposition
China plans to expand the application of quantum technologies – including precision sensors and computer simulations – across…
Fat squirrels, rowdy bears and burned-out rangers: How Trump policies are scrambling America’s national parks
As a backcountry ranger at a national park, Sam built a career doing work that many visitors never…
The Strange Origin of The Human Eye May Trace Back to a 600-Million-Year-Old ‘Cyclops’ : ScienceAlert
The human eye is one of nature’s most complex visual systems. Yet its origins may trace back to…