NASA selects 41 space technologies for future Moon and Mars exploration
NASA has chosen 41 technology proposals from 37 American companies to help develop the capabilities needed for future…
Spotting whales no fluke | Otago Daily Times Online News
A pod of humpback whales were having a swimmingly good time in Otago Harbour yesterday. The whales were…
Seals’ Dual Hearing Mastery: Land and Sea Acoustics
New research from an international team of scientists has identified how a specialised tissue in the ears of…
Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Astronomers have directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems. Every system lies within…
Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human hearing, and researchers have shown other elephants can not only feel these signals through their feet but tell a familiar caller from a stranger
Elephants make deep rumbles that sit mostly below the range of human hearing. Those same low-frequency calls do…
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After Nearly 50 Years In The Depths Of Space, Voyager 1 Still Sends Messages That Take 23 Hours To Reach Earth
It traverses the ocean of stars that lies beyond our solar system,…
Japan officials hunt bear that raided couple’s fridge amid string of break-ins | Japan
Authorities are searching for a bear that sneaked into the home of an elderly couple and raided their…
Penguin Predators Driven by Prey Accessibility, Not Abundance
Large seabird colonies have a surrounding boundary known as Ashmole’s halo, where food sources are depleted, forcing the…
Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter
From a distance, Europa looks like a frozen world. Its surface is a pale shell crossed by rust-coloured…
Heavy traffic turns flower-rich road verges into bumblebee traps, and in southern Sweden, scientists found dead bees outnumbered live ones at about 4,000 vehicles a day | World News
Bumblebees rely on nectar-rich wildflowers for food, yet new research suggests that flowers growing beside heavily trafficked roads…