U.S. cancels automatic protections for imperiled animals as critics warn of extinctions
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts
NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars’ northern…
Brought to Australia for sport hunting in the 1800s, foxes devastated native wildlife, so in 1996 the country scaled up poison baiting, and the woylie and numbat began bouncing back | World News
Brought to Australia for sport hunting in the 1800s, foxes devastated native wildlife. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. At…
CSIRO Program Aids Aquaculture SMEs in R&D Planning
The free eight-week online program, delivered by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, helps SMEs turn early-stage ideas into…
Air quality warnings remain in place across US as wildfire smoke continues to swathe country | Wildfires
Warnings of dangerous conditions are expected to remain in place on Saturday across swathes of the US, amid…
Space launch costs could fall 90% by 2040
Getting something into space has always been incredibly expensive. Every extra pound of equipment has come with a…
Residents kept reporting dolphins in two Japanese bays. Underwater microphones revealed how frequently they visit
Scientists monitored dolphins in two bays along Sea of Japan coast. (Representational photo) People living along Japan’s Sea…
Cassini watched bright “islands” appear, disappear and reappear in Titan’s methane seas — and laboratory experiments suggest they may be fields of nitrogen bubbles fizzing out of solution as the alien lakes warm or mix
Cassini’s radar saw bright features appear within Titan’s dark northern seas, vanish on later passes and, in one…
Canada to deny entry to foreigners who were recently in DR Congo, against U.N. advice
The Canadian government said Sunday it would deny entry to any foreigner who has been to the Democratic…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…
Gene editing could help Tasmanian devils fight off deadly facial cancer
A new research partnership hopes to make Tasmanian devils more resistant to the contagious cancer that has driven…
Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower
False-color particles reveal water flowing into a reverse sprinkler, making the invisible movement of fluid clearly visible.Photo credit:…