Stray lions found roaming near Komatipoort may have returned to Kruger National Park
A pride of between five and seven young lions, believed to have wandered out of the Kruger National…
Mysterious fungi found thriving deep below Earth’s surface
Gas wells in northern Michigan pump water to the surface every day. That water comes up from shale…
The U.S. dumped 2 million tires into the ocean to build an artificial reef in 1970. Decades later, officials are still trying to clean up the environmental disaster
Humans have been tossing objects in the ocean with the knowledge that once on the seabed they provide…
APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus
Explanation: The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic…
A 14-kilometre iceberg cut off food supply to an Antarctic penguin colony, and chick numbers dropped by 69% in one breeding season
How one iceberg changed everything for Antarctic penguin colony When it comes to nature, it often reminds us…
Rats are transforming coral reefs by wiping out seabirds
Rats show up on a tropical island as stowaways, and the birds that used to nest there start…
World-first artificial intelligence tool developed in Melbourne could save limbs of diabetics
A world-first AI tool made in Melbourne could help save the limbs of people living with diabetes. Researchers…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Saturn’s moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop…
What is the breakthrough in China’s artificial sun project? A 6.5 Tesla magnet
New Delhi: China’s superconducting magnets have passed key tests at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of…
Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth’s coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization
Happy Shark Week, science fans! To mark the occasion, we had a flurry of fishy features this week,…
What A 400-Year-Old Shark Can Teach Us About Human Longevity
Plate showing the Northern lemargus (lamargus borealis) or Greenland shark. Book “Voyage en Islande et au Groenland” by…