Amazon fires peaked during the 2024 drought. A year later, burned area hit its lowest level since records began in 1985
Amazon forest fires fell to all-time low in 2025 but could a super El Niño halt progress? Amazon…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
India: Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack
CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman…
Europa’s Ocean Proves Harder to Access Than Expected
Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, long has fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen…
NSW abalone industry faces coastline closure due to severe stock decline
Once the New South Wales South Coast was brimming with abalone, but today most of the populations are…
Should Scientists Have Research “Reserves” on the Moon?
The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists…
Florida scientists used female Burmese pythons as live lures to find invasive males in the Everglades, but 3 million camera-trap photos produced only four python detections
Conservancy biologists with a 16ft, 135lb female Burmese python found while radio-tracking a male scout snake in southwest…
Moon’s Far Side Rocks Revise Lunar History
Ancient samples from the Moon’s far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early Solar…
Tesla sets net-zero target for first time
Tesla has pledged to reach net zero by 2040, the first time the world’s most valuable automaker has…
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the plume images for camera errors
When Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, scientists expected its moon Io to be cold, battered…
Why you should think twice before rescuing a wild animal
Imagine you’re driving down a windy road when you spot an injured possum. Your instincts might tell you…
Hidden drainage vessels in the eye could help explain vision loss
The back of the eye is constantly producing waste, shifting fluid and clearing away cellular debris. For more…