Blue Whales Are Born Bigger Than Adult Great White Sharks
Great white sharks are documented scavengers of dead whales, and young blue whales are considered vulnerable to shark…
There’s a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it
For four years, an instrument station in the hyperarid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert logged one rain event.…
The Guardian view on Europe’s wildfires: politics must catch up with the new reality | Editorial
A new and ominous word has entered the vocabulary of firefighters struggling to cope with the vast wildfire…
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star’s elusive companion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover…
Quantum Heat Waves Spotted at Room Temperature for the First Time
Visualization of ray-like heat flow in boron arsenide at 300 K (80°F). Credit: H-Lab/UCLA The discovery could improve…
Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park
Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the icy waters of Northeast Greenland, scientists…
AI Camera System: Affordable Bumblebee Monitoring
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers have developed a low-cost, semi-automated, AI-driven method that uses remote cameras to survey bumblebees…
Several dead in Japan after magnitude 7.1 earthquake causes blast at mall | Earthquakes News
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing…
Why an Irish semi-state body is cashing in on a satellite company
Analysis: You may never have heard of AirNav Ireland but its multi-million windfall is a useful reminder about…
In 1861, an English lord sent three red deer to New Zealand for sport; the animals later multiplied into a costly pest
A wild red deer. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons What began as an aristocratic gift intended to enhance New…
‘Crazy idea’ succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes
Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists are…
The Hidden Wildlife Challenge Of The Renewable Energy Boom
Wind turbines in a sunflower field set against a blue sky. getty Global investment in renewable energy has…