Experts looked inside Cape Town’s largest predator. What they found has them worried
Most of Cape Town’s caracals have rat poison in their bodies. The discovery, reported in Environmental Pollution, raises concerns…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
1 week to go until the deepest partial lunar eclipse until 2028 The partial phase of a lunar…
Without action wildfires in Europe will increase 39% even in best-case climate scenario, study finds | Wildfires
Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 4: Looking For Us
(This is Part 4 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read Part…
Ultrafast triggering of strong coupling in a semiconductor terahertz Fabry-Pérot cavity
THz characterization of a photo-excited thin Si wafer When a semiconductor is excited above band-gap, its optical properties…
Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner | Hawaii
In 1868, the government of Hong Kong gave eight axis deer to Hawaii’s King Kamehameha V. They were…
Reflect Orbital says satellite will not illuminate Saskatchewan communities – DiscoverMooseJaw.com
A company developing satellites that reflect sunlight back to Earth says it has no plans to illuminate Saskatchewan…
How Africa Is Battling Climate Change and the Coming ‘Super’ El Niño
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: African countries respond to climate change-driven wildfires, drought,…
Armed with funding boost, SpaceSail accelerates China’s push to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink
In a record funding round for China’s satellite internet sector, domestic start-up SpaceSail has raised around 7 billion…
Korean Researchers Identifies Cause of ‘Beat’ Signal in Topological Insulator Nanowires
Insider Brief Researchers from KRISS, GIST and Kongju National University identified the source of a beat signal in…
Proposed changes to endangered species law would ‘stab it to death,’ says scientist
Five former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open…
The world banned CFCs and put the ozone layer on a path to recovery. Now thousands of dying satellites are introducing aluminium oxide nanoparticles into the upper atmosphere — particles scientists warn can catalyse the chlorine chemistry that destroys ozone.
The Montreal Protocol produced a result that can be measured in the atmosphere. Nearly all controlled ozone-depleting substances…