Alpha female hyenas leave huge family dynasties
One female spotted hyena in the Ngorongoro Crater died in 1996. Twenty-seven years later, every hyena born into…
Ancient DNA shows Ice Age humans targeted female mammoths | News
Excavation in Langmannersdorf in 2025. (Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Cavemen targeted female…
Americans discard around 50,000 mattresses every day; one recycling programme has recovered 650 million pounds from 17 million beds
Only a few US states have built systems to collect and recycle mattresses. (Representational photo- Getty images) A…
APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great…
Sea cucumber tissue survived for years after being cut off
Cut a small piece off an animal and it should rot within days. Instead, bits of tissue snipped…
‘Sturgeon Moon’ to bring partial lunar eclipse to Ontario this month
Skywatchers across Ontario will be treated to a rare late-summer spectacle this month as the Sturgeon Moon will…
Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws
Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws,…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
It requires chilly temperatures of 0 ̊C to survive. If exposed to the balmy warmth of 4.4 ̊C, their membranes dissolve and they will melt into goo
Did you now there are some worms that can live in ice? Ice worms can be found living…
WATCH LIVE: NASA to give update ahead of Crew-13 launch from Florida
HOUSTON – NASA is set to hold a pair of news conferences on Monday to preview the upcoming…
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor | Romania
Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube…
The 1st ‘three-headed’ asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
A collage of images of asteroid (44) Nysa, believed to be the first-known asteroid in our solar system…