Scientists optimistic despite losing 14,000 tagged bogong moths
Every year, billions of bogong moths migrate across the country to New South Wales’s Snowy Mountains to escape…
This “new” frog was hiding in plain sight for 100 years
Scientists at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador have formally described Pristimantis milpe, a common and widespread frog…
Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think : ScienceAlert
We’ve made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
A Biologist Counted 6,000 Reindeer on This Remote Island. Later Surveys Found 42.
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This “new” frog was hiding in plain sight for 100 years
Scientists at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador have formally described Pristimantis milpe, a common and widespread frog…
On September 11, 2018, a Dutch city opened a 30-meter bike path built from hollow prefabricated modules containing the recycled equivalent of 218,000 plastic cups, with sensors installed inside to measure temperature, loading and the number of bicycles crossing it
Roughly 218,000 plastic cups, in recycled-plastic terms, is what went into a single 30-meter stretch of bike path…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
Woster: When a high school physics story sticks for life – Mitchell Republic
Back in high school, probably in a physics class although I can’t be certain, Howard Elrod told us…
In 2002, Lundy began its rat-eradication project; puffins later rose from 13 in 2000 to 1,335, and more than 40,000 seabirds now nest on the island
Off the coast of southwest England, the small island of Lundy was once a textbook case of how…
Mercury Isn’t What Scientists Thought: New Study Reveals a Surprisingly Different Surface
Mercury may preserve evidence of a hotter, more extreme interior than scientists once expected. Credit: Shutterstock From tiny…
Lunenburg lifts water restrictions after dam breach
Nova Scotia Water restrictions in Lunenburg, N.S., were lifted Saturday after a dam breach three days ago led…