Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say
Whenever there’s a series of destructive or notable earthquakes, scientists get asked the same question: are earthquakes becoming…
Webb has produced the highest-resolution wide-area dark-matter map yet—more than twice as sharp as Hubble’s earlier view—using distortions in roughly 250,000 galaxies to expose previously unresolved clumps and filaments within a field containing nearly 800,000 galaxies.
The blue web spread across Webb’s new COSMOS image is not a photograph of dark matter. No telescope…
New Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Grow Together
Understanding the formation and evolution of galactic centers is a major challenge facing astrophysicists. For some time, astronomers…
Drone pilot films great white, tiger sharks gorging on whale carcass off Bawley Point
Professional bodyboarder and marine mammal rescue volunteer Lilly Pollard always wanted to film a shark from a drone…
A giant cliff that vanished billions of years ago may explain the mystery of Earth’s ‘missing’ billion years |
Representative Image of the Grand Canyon revealing two billion years of geological history and missing rock layers (AI-generated…
Public perception of climate change: Why the Black Summer fires led more Australians to question the science, according to new study
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New NASA telescope to probe dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets
Key points NASA plans to launch the roughly US$4 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday from…
Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance,…
Drones over the Azores recorded two sperm whales turning to face each other, converging at speed and striking head-on with the front of the skull — the battering-ram collision the species’ anatomy had implied for two centuries, and nobody had ever filmed
For two centuries, one detail about the sperm whale has sat there unresolved. Its head, taking up roughly…
Next-Gen Dish Boosts NASA’s Deep Space Network
Antennas soak in the summer Sun in August 2026 at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow,…
Parliamentary inquiry into Melbourne waste-to-energy plants prompts calls for tougher regulations
Melbourne’s outer suburban residents have called for tougher standards on rubbish burning after the tabling of a waste-to-energy…
New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space Network
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio…