It’s harpoon-proof, ‘sings’ jazz music, and lives up to 200 years – meet a record-breaking giant of the animal world
The animal in question is a record-breaking goliath of its species: it has the thickest blubber, thickest skin,…
Study suggests our galaxy underwent a massive cosmic flip
The Milky Way may not have always looked the way we see it today. New research presented at…
‘It’s truly hell here’: airstrikes, repression and water shortages become ‘new normal’ for Iranians | Iran
As US airstrikes hit port and inland cities in Iran, and Tehran strikes at the US’s Middle East…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an…
Quebec’s captive caribou population grows after 16 fawns are born
Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
The Sky Today on Wednesday, July 22: Dione passes north of Saturn
Back to Article List The 10th-magnitude moon Dione skims above Saturn’s north pole early this morning, accompanied by…
Nine premiers agree to direct-to-consumer alcohol sales from out-of-province
The premiers of nine provinces announced Tuesday that they’re removing major barriers to interprovincial sales of alcohol. Provincial…
The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect
Somewhere above your head, roughly 400 kilometres up, an astronaut is drinking yesterday’s urine. Not metaphorically. The water…
Guest Post: What a High School Student Found When He Stress-Tested a Quantum Benchmark
Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take…
“I didn’t know what I was looking at”: drone films one of the strangest and rarest animals on the planet
A videographer in Western Australia was amazed to see a critically endangered wedgefish leading a group of fish…
A massive crater was spotted on Google Earth. It could be a scar from an ancient meteorite impact
An amateur astronomer’s plans for a camping vacation two years ago transformed into a possible crater find in…
Critical minerals: The hidden resources powering the clean energy future
The story in 60 seconds Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, smart phone; they all depend on…