Plant biodiversity in Europe: Study shows why an increase in plant species isn’t good news
The number of plant species in many ecosystems in Europe has grown rather than shrunk over the last…
Yes, China Is Largely Responsible For Rising Carbon Emissions
The Bao Steel mill in the morning, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China. Baotou is an excellent example of…
Two Planets Lighter Than Candy Floss
How flimsy and fluffy can a world be? We tend to picture planets as solid, weighty things and…
Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
Researchers have shown that an unusual class of quantum states known as “fractional Fermi seas” can be deliberately…
Clip of Woman’s Very Vocal Pushback on Bear Goes Viral
A hike in Canada’s bear country turned into a tense standoff for one woman and her dog,…
In the mudstones of a place called Bright Angel, Perseverance detected complex carbon molecules hundreds of times across two rocks, a find researchers called the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars
On the edge of an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, at an outcrop the mission team named…
This is why Europe was so fatally unprepared for the June heatwave
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An Island of Calm at the Violent Heart of the Galaxy
Where would you go to watch a star being born? Probably not the heart of the Milky Way,…
Elephant released into forest found dead
The elephant that was tranquillised and fitted with a radio collar was found dead in the Vettampara forest in…
In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar space.
On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, reported a faint moving object to…
Europe heatwave: drought fears in Italy as records tumble around Europe – as it happened | Europe
Germany records new all-time highest temperature of 41.5C Germany has recorded a new temperature record today, just a…
Who is Amanda Nguyen: Meet the rape survivor who became the first Vietnamese woman in space on Blue Origin’s historic mission |
Image: Space for Humanity History was made when Amanda Nguyen crossed the Kármán line aboard Blue Origin’s New…