This chaotic 2,000-pound seal has returned to sea – but leaves behind a conundrum
Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this…
NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, permanently silencing the most distant human-made object.
Nearly half a century after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switch at a…
The real-life ‘Hobbits’ survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away | World News
For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of…
Earth’s largest waterfall is not Niagara or Victoria Falls—it lies entirely underwater in the Denmark Strait, where cold, dense water cascades roughly 3,500 metres down the ocean floor, a drop more than three times the height of Angel Falls.
The largest waterfall on Earth has no viewing platform, no mist rising into sunlight, and no tourist boats…
We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit…
Ontario Cooper’s hawks on the hunt, in photos
For 18 months, a pair of Cooper’s hawks have been hunting in the woods behind my apartment building.…
Europe just unveiled a new rival to SpaceX’s Starship
When SpaceX’s Starship lifted off from the Texas coast in the summer of 2023, it marked a milestone…
Advocates say Inuit no longer welcome to gather at Ottawa underpass; police say otherwise
Dedicated facility needed to help most vulnerable community members says group co-founder Nick Illauq For many in Ottawa,…
Space Force Has a New Weapon to Blind Enemy Satellites
The Space Force added a new weapon to its arsenal, a device designed to blast electromagnetic beams to…
In 1859, Australia released 13 rabbits for hunting. Decades later, they created one of the world’s worst invasive species crises | World News
When European rabbits arrived in Australia in the 19th century, they were brought in as familiar game animals…
Rare fossil goose rewrites the story of New Zealand’s giant birds
A rare fossil goose discovered in the remains of an ancient lake in Central Otago is changing scientists’…
First Nation seeks say on new Alberta oil pipeline with Metro Vancouver terminal | Daily Hive
Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) is emphasizing that it should be consulted on the Alberta government’s proposed new oil…