New Nature Reserve Announced; More Land, Water Protected in Nova Scotia
NOTE: The list of new designated and expanded protected areas, and areas now open for consultation, follows this…
When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born
You already know that water freezes. At zero degrees, the disordered chaos of liquid molecules suddenly snaps into…
Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly…
In Brazil, capybaras face a dark fate. Some people are trying to change that.
On a tall, green riverbank between two highways in São Paulo, Brazil, a woman with round glasses and…
Floating Solar Could Be a Lifeline for Land-Scarce Nations Facing Energy Crises
Floating solar farms could be significantly more efficient than solar farms on land thanks to the natural cooling…
US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing…
A New Model Helps Astronomers Study How Merging Black Holes Ring
Gravitational wave astronomy has been a tremendous breakthrough in our understanding of black holes. We can now detect…
Tiny, blue Galápagos octopus identified as newfound species
Summary Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of octopus discovered in the Galápagos Islands in 2015. The…
‘Poised to disintegrate’: Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is set to lose its ice shelf this year
A vital ice shelf is about to break away from Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” further destabilizing one of the…
Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space…
The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder
Somewhere in the future, there’s a finish line in the marathon to understand supermassive black holes (SMBH). We…
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…