It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone? | Global development
A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an…
John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics – Physics World
John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
It’s harpoon-proof, ‘sings’ jazz music, and lives up to 200 years – meet a record-breaking giant of the animal world
The animal in question is a record-breaking goliath of its species: it has the thickest blubber, thickest skin,…
UK wildfires and heatwaves show extreme weather is becoming the new normal for Britain and Europe
London | There is a joke doing the rounds about how England is turning into Southern Europe: a…
The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect
Somewhere above your head, roughly 400 kilometres up, an astronaut is drinking yesterday’s urine. Not metaphorically. The water…
How a YouTube video proved the existence of Libya’s sand cats
It’s not every day that a YouTube video triggers a major wildlife discovery, yet that’s exactly what Mohammed…
Protein Excess Tips Balance Of Cellular Health
Published on A UNIGE study shows that even a slight overproduction of tubulin, a protein essential for cell…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
Astronomers found a planet 63 light-years away that appears as blue as Earth from space—but its colour comes from a scorching atmosphere where glass may rain sideways in 4,500-mile-per-hour winds
At first glance, HD 189733b sounds almost comforting. It is blue. Not merely imagined as blue in an…
Guest Post: What a High School Student Found When He Stress-Tested a Quantum Benchmark
Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take…
Reassuring Touch Kept Peace Millennia Before Humans
During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation :…