ESA Open Days 2026 are coming: mark your calendar!
Agency 22/06/2026 444 views 5 likes The ESA Open Days season is almost here and our teams across…
Darwin’s bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more than ten times tougher than Kevlar, and strings its web across rivers on bridge lines up to 25 meters long
A spider in Madagascar makes a thread that outperforms anything in the materials labs of the human world.…
Infrared filter could help detect pollution and disease
Researchers have developed a tiny, electrically tuneable infrared filter that could help shrink bulky thermal sensing systems on…
Bye-bye boredom: The ultimate school holiday program guide
Posted on 19 June, 2026 As we approach the end of another term, a familiar school holiday puzzle…
Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system
More than 4.5 billion years ago, a huge world, potentially as large as the moon or even Mars,…
Scientists show quantum mechanics can work without imaginary numbers
A new analysis conducted by researchers at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the German Aerospace Center…
Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for more than 6,000 years, have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula — a discovery made possible by old museum specimens, rare field photographs, fossil fragments and the knowledge of Indigenous Tambrauw and Maybrat elders.
Two marsupials known to science only from fossils, and presumed gone for more than 6,000 years, have turned…
Plant Viruses Advance Virus-Induced Gene Editing
Plant scientists are looking for faster and more flexible ways to edit crop genomes, especially in plants that…
A concrete-free wind turbine could change how renewable energy is deployed worldwide |
For decades, wind power has relied on a familiar formula: enormous towers, vast concrete foundations and specialised heavy-lift…
The planet that lost its crown. 28 amazing facts about Pluto, the icy world on the edge of the Solar System
It used to be the farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System, until it was declassified.…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years, and biologists still cannot explain how it ages so slowly
In the flooded caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives a pale, blind salamander the size of a pencil,…