Requiem in Power (RIP) | Memo
I type −37.718466, 145.042741 into my phone. They are the coordinates engraved in gothic font onto a stone…
Labor’s flagship renewable energy scheme has not worked: It’s time to replace the CIS with a CFD
The decision to move on from the renewable energy target was a correct one. But replacing it with…
A Martian day runs 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, so rover teams at JPL live on Mars time for the length of a mission, sliding their whole schedule later each day until they are eating breakfast at midnight, and their families describe it as jet lag with no destination
At first, the change is almost trivial. A rover engineer who begins work at 8 a.m. today begins…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Ancient DNA reveals Ice Age humans selectively harvested female mammoths
Excavation in Langmannersdorf 2025. Photo: Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences. Credit Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences An international…
Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
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APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
America cancelled the world’s most powerful particle collider, leaving a 22.5-km tunnel hidden beneath Texas for more than 30 years | World News
A vast underground tunnel system stretching 22.5 kilometres still lies hidden beneath the fields of Texas, marking the…
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
Ocean researchers have shared the extraordinary moment a nautilus swam right up to their underwater vehicle to say hello. Marine…
Arctic Ocean Holds Permafrost Carbon Securely
Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When the frozen ground thaws or coastal sections…
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather | Wildfires
The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by…
It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse’s Companion
Most of us are familiar with Betelgeuse (also known as alpha Orionis), the bright shoulder star in the…