The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
Galaxies surrounded by reservoirs of cold gas draw that gas into themselves and convert it into new stars.…
The sex life of treefrogs: how females build better nests by mating with multiple partners
African grey foam-nest treefrogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) are common across the savannahs and dry forests of south-eastern Africa. Despite…
Fusion Breakthrough: Materials Key to Success
Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here…
Colombia planted 880,000 trees across the streets of one city to tackle rising temperatures, and the plantation delivered localised cooling of up to 5°C in shaded areas |
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, cities around the world are searching for ways to stay cooler…
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain…
In 2015, two men bought live sea turtles from a Papua New Guinea food market and set them free instead of letting them become food | World News
In 2015, a simple act of compassion by two men in Papua New Guinea won hearts after they…
How Our Milky Way Once Underwent Dramatic Flip
The Milky Way may have undergone some cosmic gymnastics during its history with a dramatic disc flip, according…
Engineers watching bats near a solar plant in England realized the panels were tricking them into thinking they were water and changing their behavior
Picture a field of solar panels in the English countryside at dusk. The last light fades, and small…
Satellite spots a ‘hummingbird’ in Antarctica photo of the day for July 23, 2026
A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)…
Scientists Broke a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat
There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, for example,…
Do tourists stress out safari animals? We tested their dung to find out
Every year, thousands of tourists pile into game drive vehicles or don their hiking gear and cross South…
I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Suddenly out of nowhere the massive school of fish parted and a great white emerged from underneath…
Awaking early one morning in late June this year I headed down to one of the local beaches…