World’s largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago
The world’s largest known scorpion lived at a time when other land animals were relatively small, around 415…
Tiny ocean shells draw a hidden line across the Atlantic, and it may shape Earth’s carbon cycle
The ocean handles more of Earth’s carbon chemistry than most people realize, and most of it happens invisibly.…
Ella McSweeney: This killer pet has driven 73 species to extinction, and roams free in Ireland – The Irish Times
Here’s a guessing game. Name this animal. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it among…
Bacteria-based bioplastics reduce ocean waste
URochester biologist Anne S. Meyer and her colleagues created ‘bio-stickers’ that speed up plastic breakdown in marine environments.…
The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left…
US space firm Blue Origin just extracted oxygen from Moon dust. Here’s why it could transform spaceflight
Blue Origin has announced a significant step towards sustainable space exploration. The US space tech firm has revealed…
Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing Faster Than In 3.6 Million Years
Topline Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing as climate change melts glaciers and polar ice sheets, redistributing water across…
‘The ocean has no boundaries’: Beauty and life in a war zone
Iran closed the waterway to foreign shipping, attacking merchant vessels and cutting off around 20 per cent of the world’s…
The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we breathe today
The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71…
Why pyroprocessing could be a game changer for nuclear waste recycling
On December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) in Idaho became the first nuclear reactor in the…
In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across nearly 480,000 kilometres of vacuum
On 7 October 1959, a Soviet probe the size of a small water heater swung around the back…
The most powerful AI stories right now are not chatbots. They are the quiet algorithms reading burnt Roman scrolls, trawling through millions of galaxies, and finding things hidden in data no human team could ever finish searching.
The artificial intelligence that holds the public’s attention writes essays, answers questions and holds a conversation. The artificial…