Peter’s farm is on ‘flood country’. As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge | Climate crisis
When grazier Peter Lake moved to the Clarence Valley in the New South Wales northern rivers region in…
10 billion km in 3 minutes! Epic video captures a spacecraft’s 8-year odyssey to planet Mercury
After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the…
Guest Post: What CERN Brings To Quantum
Guest Post by Dr. Kris Naudts, Zeynep Koruturk and Donald Harmitt @ Firgun Ventures. Firgun Ventures is a…
New data flips the narrative on how lions and hyenas interact in the wild
In The Lion King, the hyenas Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed were at the evil lion Scar’s every beck…
In 1984, NASA left a satellite carrying 57 experiments in orbit for a planned 10 months — repeated delays stretched the trip to 69 months before Columbia brought the entire laboratory home inside its cargo bay, its exposed surfaces weathered by years in space.
When NASA deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility in April 1984, its experiments were supposed to spend about…
Ugandan communities planted 4,053 trees beside one of Africa’s great rainforests; now the new forest is rebuilding a damaged wildlife buffer |
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Image Credit: Ron Van Oers/Wikipedia Communities living beside Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park have planted…
A NASA Photo Processing Technique to Study Mars Has Discovered Ancient Art on Earth
‘As he was developing the Dstretch plug-in, Harman applied it to this image from the Cave of San…
Guide Spots Remarkable Three-Legged Elephant Roaming With Herd
A remarkable three-legged elephant is filmed moving freely alongside the rest of her herd at a private game…
The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?
In 1915, Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity and transformed our view of the fabric of…
Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750
Jacobson, M. Z. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature…
Science says we’re not special. But here’s why that could be wrong – and why we should be thankful we’ve not been swallowed by the Sun
We’re not special. If astronomy has taught us anything over the last few centuries, it’s this: rather than…
Space weather can cause both beautiful auroras and infrastructure challenges – 5 essential reads on protecting life and technology
Most days, you can look up and see the Sun shining above. Even if it’s hidden behind clouds,…