How do supermassive black holes grow? AI finds 7 spacetime-warping ‘quasars’ that could help solve the mystery
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Canberra food and garden organics collection scheme expansion delayed for third time
The rollout of a program to recycle food and garden waste into compost across the ACT has been…
Why NASA Is About To Fly Into Iceland’s Total Solar Eclipse
Topline Scientists are preparing an ambitious series of scientific missions for Aug. 12, 2026, when the moon’s narrow…
Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter with Humpback Whales Reveals Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication
“Because of current limitations on technology, an important assumption of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that extraterrestrials…
The avocado’s sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years
Avocado flowers perform the duty of both female and male flowers. The gene that controls them has been…
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…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile’s tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan’s don’t
There is a 400-kilometre river system near the north pole of Titan that drains into a sea larger…
Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing – is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?
In late June, whale watchers in southwest Western Australia sounded the alarm. They had seen far fewer humpback…
NASA documents impact of wildfires on sunlight: the sun turns red due to smoke and ashes
A surprising optical phenomenon transformed the sky into a spectacle of crimson tones due to the interaction of…
See A Solar Eclipse, The Perseids And A 96% ‘Blood Moon:’ August’s Sky
Topline August 2026 is the biggest month of the year for skywatchers, bringing a rare total solar eclipse…
Scientists Tracked Penguin Poop From Space and Noticed a Troubling Antarctic Shift
The pinkish color of these guano-covered Adélie penguins on Coronation Island in Antarctica is thanks to their diet.…
Network analysis highlights socio-demographic patterns of stone tool-using primates
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