Great Barrier Reef avoids ‘in danger’ listing in World Heritage Committee draft decision
The Great Barrier Reef has avoided an “in danger” listing in a draft decision by the World Heritage…
Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that’s falling back to Earth thanks to solar storms
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s…
How astrophysicist Arthur McDonald’s summer job at a power plant came full circle
Open this photo in gallery: Photo Illustration by The Globe and Mail. Sources: Queen’s University, Getty Images Even…
Here’s How This ‘Hobbit’-Like Human Ancestor Survived on an Island with Komodo Dragons
Anthropologists have been debating the life and times of Indonesia’s prehistoric “hobbit-like” human ancestor, Homo floresiensis, ever since…
70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility…
SpaceX’s Next Big Business Isn’t Rockets. It’s Computer Chips.
Six months ago, SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) was a private rocket company. Today, it is a public one worth…
E.T. poem home | Canberra Daily
If extra-terrestrials exist, let’s hope they like poetry because an old radio telescope that once served NASA at…
Fossil fuels won’t fix a fossil fuel crisis
One year ago I became the first independent member for Bradfield. For three decades before that, I worked…
The Milky Way’s arms might not look as we thought
This video shows what astronomers thought the Milky Way looked like, and what the new data indicates instead.…
Ancient ‘hobbits’ feasted on Komodo dragons’ leftovers
An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind…
XMM-Newton gamma-ray detection shows the Milky Way is bigger than previously thought
The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent…
Tiny forests popping up across Sydney as part of effort to restore urban tree canopy
Tiny forests are starting to spring up in small land plots in Sydney’s suburbs as locals look to…