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Anti-whaling protester caught in crow’s nest as Iceland resumes hunt
A lone anti-whaling protester who climbed into the crow’s nest of a whaling vessel in Iceland says he…
Arrakihs, a Spanish mission to illuminate the mystery of dark matter: ‘We have broken molds’ | Science
Dark matter, one of the universe’s most enduring mysteries, is not exactly dark — it’s invisible. Astronomers know…
FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda, reaches space as NASA studies football technology aboard ISS
Houston [US], June 21 (ANI): The official match ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Trionda, has reached…
About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10-15 km wide struck off Mexico’s Yucatan, gouging a crater some 180 km across — and the extinction that followed wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and around 75% of all species
Roughly five billion. That is the number of Hiroshima-sized bombs it would take to match the energy of…
FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda, reaches space as NASA studies football technology aboard ISS
Houston [US], June 21 (ANI): The official match ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Trionda, has reached…
China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes
A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect space hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth’s upper…
HD 189733b looks deep blue from space, almost Earth-like at first glance — but its colour comes not from oceans, but from silicate particles in a scorching atmosphere where glass may rain sideways through winds of thousands of kilometres an hour.
From a distance, the exoplanet HD 189733b looks like the most reassuring thing in the sky: a deep…
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 close encounter: new image & video – 19 June 2026.
We are happy to share with you our latest image and a video of the potentially hazardous asteroid…
New plasma process converts wet coffee grounds into fuel in 90 seconds
Scientists have demonstrated a new plasma-based process that converts wet coffee waste into high-performance biochar without any pre-drying…
Rescued baby turtles set to embark on 1,400km journey to Ningaloo Reef
Two rescued loggerhead turtles are set to embark on a 1,400 kilometre journey to be released back into…
Scientists Just Repeated a Nobel Prize-Winning Experiment in a Creature Older Than Jellyfish
Experiments on comb jelly embryos reveal that a core developmental process shared across animals may trace back to…