SScience Read More Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metresAugust 29, 2026 A whale shark tips nose down, holds its tail almost still, and sinks. The camera watching this is…
EEnvironment Read More Turkiye: 51% New Vehicles are Electric, 60% Power from Renewables, amid Hormuz Energy ShockAugust 29, 2026 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the…
SSpace Read More On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA’s Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent ‘8 days in a garbage can’August 29, 2026 On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and…
WWildlife Read More Goliath The Squirrel Monkey: A 1.5-pound squirrel monkey named Goliath was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1961; 35 seconds later, the Atlas E rocket was destroyed after the flight went wrong |August 29, 2026 Goliath weighed barely less than a carton of milk and stood just six inches tall, but he became…
SScience Read More New ‘Google-like’ search engine can scan millions of cells for hidden RNA clues in secondsAugust 29, 2026 Malva can search RNA sequences across millions of individual cells in seconds without requiring researchers to download enormous…
EEnvironment Read More Wild blonde capuchin monkeys — an endangered species in Brazil’s dry Caatinga forest already known for using sticks to fish termites — were filmed cracking food open with stones, the first record of stone tool use in this species anywhereAugust 29, 2026 A camera trap in Brazil’s Caatinga dry forest caught something researchers had never documented in this species before:…
SSpace Read More SpaceX Christmas Island rocket retrieval small part of Elon Musk’s futuristic quest to dominate the skyAugust 29, 2026 Elon Musk is an ideas man. And, whether you like it or not, some of those ideas will…
WWildlife Read More In 1971, a Canadian art student visited a fogbound island to draw wild horses; she stayed nearly 50 years studying its wildlife, and Sable became a national park reserve | World NewsAugust 29, 2026 Representative image of a naturalist observing wildlife in a remote, misty landscape. Image credits: ChatGPT. In 1971, Zoe…
SScience Read More Facey Group: Wickepin milestone marks 25 years of grower support | Farm WeeklyAugust 29, 2026 Perri is an agriculture journalist with Farm Weekly. Born in regional Victoria, Perri developed a love of regional…
EEnvironment Read More England’s Water Network Buckles Under Sudden Summer DroughtAugust 29, 2026 The severe “flash drought” that has gripped England is pushing an already struggling water network toward breaking point…
SSpace Read More NASA once sent chicken eggs to space with funding from KFCAugust 29, 2026 The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake… or the chicken.…
WWildlife Read More Researchers Find Shark Graveyard—in the DesertAugust 29, 2026 In a stretch of Egyptian desert that today feels anything but aquatic, scientists say they’ve found evidence…