SpaceX’s next Starship breathes fire for 1st time in prelaunch test (video)
About a month has passed since the first launch of SpaceX’s “Version 3” Starship rocket, and the spaceflight…
The ‘ballista spider’ builds a trap to catapult unsuspecting prey into its web
LISTEN | Full interview with biologist Ajay Narendra: As It Happens5:55This newly discovered spider catapults its prey with…
Black hole’s ‘point of no escape’ studied with the loudest gravitational waves ever heard
The loudest crash of gravitational waves ever heard has offered us insight into event horizons, the boundaries beyond…
Death of the Major oak should spur tree protection | Trees and forests
I’m sure people throughout the country, and indeed the world, have been greatly saddened to learn of the…
NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to save its aging Swift telescope from falling from space Here’s why
On paper, it seems like the math would be clear. A nearly 22-year-old space telescope, well past its…
Topological suppression of quantum tunnelling in a lanthanide single-ion molecular magnet
µSQUID-EPR mapping of tunnelling gaps The multilevel character of Et4N[160GdPc2] (or [160GdPc2]−) (S = 7/2, L = 0, I = 0), the sizable anisotropy,…
Call for inquiry into Alligator Alcatraz’s ‘abuse of Everglades’ despite closure | Florida
While they welcome the recent closure of the controversial Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, leading environmental groups and…
China’s top-secret ‘dragon’ space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth
China‘s top-secret space plane just released another unknown object over Earth, raising concerns about exactly what the mysterious…
Fourth toddler dies in France as Europe’s brutal heatwave forecast to shift east | Extreme heat
The number of deaths in France linked to the heatwave has climbed to four toddlers and more than…
NASA Announces Winners for 2026 Human Lander Challenge
NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar…
Coherent control of interacting solid-state spins below the diffraction limit
Togan, E. et al. Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit. Nature 466, 730–734…
Navy, DFO join forces to free humpback from fishing gear
The rescued humpback had been spotted in the Strait of Georgia on June 11 with crab lines wrapped…