Fluffy seaweed-inspired nets capture microplastics of every size
Balls of dead seagrass wash up on beaches with plastic tangled inside them. Researchers have now recreated that…
Climate crisis: The everyday Aussies who can’t afford another flood, drought or fire disaster
Scene one: Bayden Bedwell feels trapped. In the raging October 2022 flood that swept through Greater Shepparton, the…
How spaceflight changes astronauts’ ability to eat and drink
Imagine trying to swallow a sip of water while your face feels stuffed with congestion, your sense of…
What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force
In a historic breakthrough, a Chinese-led international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the glueball –…
In 2017, Antigua and Barbuda removed invasive rats and goats from Redonda; by 2023, vegetation biomass rose over 2,000% and ground dragons increased 13-fold
Redonda had become a thriving haven for wildlife within a few years, and now it has received a…
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
Archaeologists working at several sites in southern Africa have uncovered hundreds of unusual pieces of engraved ostrich eggshell.…
Researchers mapped more than 100 lakes across 1,000 kilometres of Brazil and Uruguay; the network could detect ecosystem stress before irreversible damage
Published in the journal One Ecosystem, the research provides the first systematic assessment of the Southern American Coastal…
Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 3 days to totality
2026-08-09T09:29:49.860Z What actually happens during a total solar eclipse? A composite image revealing the beauty of each stage…
Punch The Baby Monkey: Punch, the baby monkey, turns 1: His childhood loneliness has turned him into a baby protector and he’s received 25000 birthday cards on his special day
Punch, the orphaned baby Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, Tokyo, who conquered the hearts of millions while…
Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols in the…
In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”
The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…
In 1976, a 26-year-old biologist camped alone beneath a 35-foot artificial eagle nest: One chick she raised went on to father around 70 more
AI REPRESENTATION: The goal was to use a technique known as hacking, in which young birds are raised…