Japan probe made closest-ever asteroid flyby: space agency
A Japanese probe flew 400 metres (1,312 feet) from a near-Earth asteroid this month, marking the closest approach…
Pulverised recycled glass helps boost farm productivity with benefits to soil, plants and livestock
A growing number of Australian farmers are spraying or spreading pulverised glass on their paddocks to boost the…
Staying strong in orbit with ARED
Exercise is one of the most important countermeasures against the effects of spaceflight. Without Earth’s constant gravitational pull,…
America cancelled the world’s most powerful particle collider, leaving a 22.5-km tunnel hidden beneath Texas for more than 30 years | World News
A vast underground tunnel system stretching 22.5 kilometres still lies hidden beneath the fields of Texas, marking the…
North America once had 400 million beavers. Nearly wiped out by the 1900s, they are now restoring rivers, wetlands and wildlife one dam at a time | World News
For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping…
Learning from routine health system data builds better neuroimaging AI models
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‘It was hell’: French communities are on the front lines of Europe’s new wildfires
The flames came quick and strong. Pushed by westerly winds, they’d already devastated Saumos, France, 14 kilometres away,…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
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World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
Ocean researchers have shared the extraordinary moment a nautilus swam right up to their underwater vehicle to say hello. Marine…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
New solar panels in Great Britain at 15-year high as fossil fuel costs soar | Solar power
Great Britain has recorded more new solar power installations in the first half of this year than in…