Homebuyers are choosing homes with much higher carbon footprints than they realize
When people shop for a home, they tend to focus on the information listings put front and centre:…
Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet
In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
Scientists Discover a Bizarre New Way Life Can Make DNA… Without DNA : ScienceAlert
To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use…
As super El Nino looms, wealthy nations must learn from those already living with water scarcity
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
This Star Whips Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known Star
The universe is full of cool and interesting things, like black hole stars and nightmare planets that get…
Fur seal’s death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain | Bird flu
A long-nosed fur seal has died from H5 bird flu in South Australia, marking the first confirmed case…
Titan is the only place besides Earth with stable liquid on its surface, a working weather cycle and complex organic chemistry — and now, according to 2025 NASA research, a plausible mechanism for building the first membrane around a primitive cell, without liquid water involved.
Titan has an unusual way of making an alien landscape feel familiar. Clouds gather. Rain falls. Rivers cut…
Labor and the Coalition offer two very different plans for Victoria’s energy supply
Victoria’s electricity supply, and where it comes from, will be on the ballot paper when voters head to…
Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.
Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…
These National Geographic filmmakers spent four years following the journey of a single lion cub – I can’t wait to watch!
I’m a sucker for a good nature documentary, but National Geographic’s new series Lion – which premiered this…
The hidden economy beneath our feet: Plants share energy through fungal networks
Beneath forests, grasslands and agricultural fields lies one of nature’s most complex communication and resource-distribution systems. Often described…