Ontario wildfires: 180 blazes burning, with seven new fires
Officials with Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources put the active number of wildfires burning in the north at…
Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, seen here in June…
Cities may be going too easy on coyotes, researcher says
A new academic paper by a Trent University biologist suggests Toronto needs to revamp its approach to coyote control…
UCLA engineers observe quantum heat waves at room temperature
Visualization of ray-like heat flow in boron arsenide at 300 K (80°F) Credit H-Lab/UCLA Researchers at the UCLA…
What can the Galápagos Islands’ animals teach us about the threats of El Niño? | Environment
The ocean waters around the Galápagos Islands are hot. Very hot. Observed for centuries in the Pacific by…
Taiwan eases rules on foreign telecom satellites, eyes Musk’s Starlink
Telecommunication Taipei signals security a key consideration; China lobs rhetorical warning shot Taiwan currently has no low-Earth orbit…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Six fluffy barn owlets were found nesting on a farm near Peterborough, bringing good news after the farm faced six suspected arson attacks this summer
A surprise brood of six barn owlets has brought a welcome lift to a Cambridgeshire farm after a…
In June 2025, on a Chilean mountaintop, scientists switched on the largest digital camera ever built — named for the astronomer who found the first convincing evidence for dark matter — at the start of a project whose decade-long survey may finally find a ninth planet hidden in the outer darkness of our solar system
The camera is about the size of a small car and holds 3,200 megapixels across 189 sensors. On…
Chile: A rural Chile community struggling with drought restored its water supply by protecting a watershed, planting native trees and rebuilding the soil that holds rain
Rural community on Chile’s Chiloé Island restores its water supply. (Picture: Chile’s Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity) A…
2 Missions, 3 Launches, and Up to $300 Million for Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is on a roll — not that you could tell from the stock price.…
Scary Finding in Catfish: a Contagious Cancer
Researchers on a Vermont-Quebec border lake have stumbled onto something never seen in fish before: a cancer…