Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Best Evidence for Dark Matter Yet
Dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that astronomers say constitutes roughly 85% of the universe’s mass, doesn’t interact…
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer…
Deimos may owe both its enormous south-polar depression and strangely smooth surface to a single 300-metre asteroid impact — a blow whose debris spread around the entire moon and would mean Mars’s smaller satellite is essentially a porous rubble pile
Deimos has the surface of a world that seems to have been gently dusted over and the silhouette…
London is famous for its great trees. More than 70% are at risk due to climate change, research finds
In the middle of a heat wave and severe drought in Britain this summer, Divya Hariramani was pruning…
Watch SpaceX set rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year early Aug. 25
Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one’s definitely worth staying up for. A SpaceX Falcon 9…
A single neutrino caught beneath the Antarctic ice sent astronomers searching across 11 billion light-years — and led them to a young galaxy nicknamed the Shadow Blaster, its light bent and magnified by another galaxy standing between it and Earth
At 18:17 UTC on 22 September 2021, a pattern of light appeared inside a cubic kilometre of instrumented…
Two moose shooting cases under investigation
This bull moose was recently shot and left to waste near Alvena. (Image Credit: SaskTip/Facebook) By Cam Lee…
Evolutionary arm race in Cenozoic seas shaped modern diversity of marine snails
image: Phylogenetic tree of nearly 700 Neogastropoda genera sampled across the radiation of Neogastropoda colorcoded by superfamily attribution.…
World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August | Oceans
The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average…
What Is the ‘Messy Middle’ Between Eclipses? How It’ll Impact You
In Lucky Stars, TODAY.com’s astrologer Lisa Stardust highlights the zodiac signs most impacted by certain astrological events or…
University of Göttingen Researchers Map Molecular Wave Functions in 3D
Universities of Goettingen UniversityGermany · 1001-5000 FTEs The University of Göttingen is a public research university in Göttingen,…
Conservationists carry the eggs of the world’s rarest duck for 44km on foot. Here’s why
After heavy rainfall threatened nests of the Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, conservationists collected its eggs from…