How some abandoned wells are helping bats feel more at home on P.E.I.
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The Sky Today on Sunday, September 13: Venus, the Moon, and Spica
Back to Article List Three celestial objects form a triangle in the evening twilight as Venus and the…
Where El Nino is already making its mark
In some parts of the world, El Nino can trigger erratic changes in precipitation and wind. That can…
The Creatures Waiting At The Bottom Of The Deep Sea
At the bottom of the deep sea, it seems the creatures get stranger the farther down they live.…
From 1974 to 1990 Kumamoto Prefecture sealed about 1.5 million cubic metres of Minamata Bay sediment above 25 ppm mercury under a 58-hectare landfill that cost 48 billion yen
Stand on the eastern shore of Minamata Bay today and part of the ground underfoot is manufactured: 58…
11 Costco locations will open in Canada by the end of 2027
Costco is in the middle of a major expansion in Canada, with as many as 11 new warehouse…
Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
Quantum computers remain highly vulnerable to errors and tiny disturbances from their surroundings. The longer a quantum operation…
Why sleeping less than apes helped humans become Earth’s dominant species
For most people, bedtime is a routine matter of turning off the lights and hoping for eight hours…
Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark…
The Hearst family spent decades planning a resort town along 18 miles of California coastline, then locked 80,000 acres of the ranch behind a conservation easement instead — and the beaches below the castle now host one of the largest elephant seal rookeries on the Pacific coast
Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Highway 1 runs for 18 miles through a landscape that makes…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
A Century-Old Physics Effect Just Got a New Dimension
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new…