No Sign of Gravitational Waves From Single Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Yet
The universe is a big place, and tracking down some of the more interesting parts of it is…
Thailand puts elephants on birth control as populations are ‘squeezed out’ of their natural habitat
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI with AP Published on 13/02/2026 – 16:17 GMT+1 Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in…
Donald Trump’s coal plan will tap Cold War-era powers to order companies to buy coal-fired power to revive flagging industry
Washington | US President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain…
Single this Valentine’s Day? Don’t worry, the universe has a rose just for you (photo)
The Rosette Nebula. (Image credit: Ronald Brecher) A cosmic rose blossoms amidst a field of stars in this…
World’s largest neutrino detector to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed six new strings of…
A numerical model for duricrust formation by laterisation
Allard, T., Gautheron, C., Riffel, S. B., Balan, E., Soares, B. F., Pinna-Jamme, R., Derycke, A., Morin, G., Bueno, G. T.,…
4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters
Another summer of extreme weather has destroyed and damaged homes, cut off communities and, in the most tragic…
A star exploded, split in two, and then collided again within hours, leaving a double signature that has astronomers puzzled
That gold ring on your finger, the tiny metals inside your phone and even parts of future electric…
A New Class of Stellar Explosions
Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC…
Scientists reveal how quantum electron spin can create magnetism
At the smallest scales of matter, nature behaves in ways that feel almost counterintuitive. Individual particles follow simple…
‘Nothing says love like chemicals’: Valentine’s roses often covered in pesticides, testing finds | Valentine’s Day
Stay away from roses this Valentine’s Day, environmental campaigners have warned after testing revealed them to be heavily…
A stellar treat for Valentine’s Day: Heart-shaped outburst stuns astronomers
Astronomers have spotted a heart in the cosmos — and it’s not Cupid’s doing, but rather a dying…