EEnvironment Read More Tropical Storm Lala nearly a hurricane, impacting HawaiiAugust 15, 2026 Tropical Storm Lala is just short of hurricane strength as the storm slowly strengthens. Conditions worsen for Hawaii…
SSpace Read More U.S. company’s ‘sunlight on demand’ project worries N.B. astronomersAugust 15, 2026 Some New Brunswick astronomy experts and enthusiasts are joining a chorus of opposition against a U.S.-based company’s big…
PPhysics Read More Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first timeAugust 15, 2026 Even after a nuclear reactor is switched off, activity continues deep inside its core. Long-lived radioactive fission products…
WWildlife Read More Endangered monarch butterflies boom amid wet hot Canadian summer on the PrairiesAugust 15, 2026 MaryAnn Lepp has never seen so many monarchs go through their magical metamorphosis in her garden — counting…
SScience Read More They’re a whopping 150 million years older than dinosaurs, look like a shark, have a tail like a rat, teeth like a rabbit and sharp, venomous spines August 15, 2026 Deep in the ocean is an ancient fish that glides along by flapping their wing-like pectoral fins instead…
EEnvironment Read More Wildfires latest: Firefighters battling major incidents as Britons warned ‘country in the thick of it’August 15, 2026 Emergency wildfires alert causes chaos on live TVYour support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights…
SSpace Read More The idea that Earth is the Solar System’s ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean’s volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.August 15, 2026 Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…
PPhysics Read More Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” WaveguideAugust 15, 2026 Artist’s illustration of plasmon canalization in MoOCl₂, showing light propagating along a narrow channel. The image depicts the…
WWildlife Read More Lemur used in ‘lemur yoga’ session dies of human herpesvirus, study findsAugust 15, 2026 Four lemurs that had close contact with people, including one via a “lemur yoga” class, caught a human…
SScience Read More Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.August 15, 2026 In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
EEnvironment Read More Buenaventura residents criticise state neglect after Colombia’s earthquake | Earthquakes NewsAugust 15, 2026 Chronic under-investment In Buenaventura alone, some 540 homes have collapsed and 3,416 sustained damage. Some 330 residents were…
SSpace Read More In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmittingAugust 15, 2026 Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…