It’s been conformed – the kraken monster really did exist, 100 million years ago…
The largest predators in Earth’s oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they’d found fossils from…
Fish farms and pollution in Scotland | Fish
Your report (Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’, 4…
45 Million Light-Years Away, Scientists Finally Captured the Violent Heart of a Galaxy Being Consumed by Its Own Black Hole
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of Messier 77, a spiral galaxy whose…
Hubble Capture a Starry Spiral Cosmic Neighbor
The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has taken some truly stellar (no pun!) images over its many years of…
After Standing Rock, could a canceled mine project offer a roadmap for opponents of a new oil pipeline in South Dakota? | South Dakota
Almost exactly a decade since the start of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access pipeline gained…
Dante’s Inferno suggests Hell and Purgatory mirror the physics of a massive asteroid impact
For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin,…
Chinese scientists discover new extreme particle accelerator in cosmos
For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a mystery: Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from? These…
Plastic waste carries toxic chemicals through seas: Study
Turkish scientists studying plastic pollution in the Black Sea found that plastic waste can carry hazardous chemicals and…
Tiny world beyond Pluto is wrapped in a mysterious atmosphere
Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a small icy world beyond Pluto, where gravity should not hold…
Time itself may have a tiny built-in flaw, physicists say
The world’s best clocks keep improving. They lose less than a second over the entire age of the…
Cannabis leaves contain rare compounds with medical potential
Scientists have identified rare plant chemicals in cannabis leaves for the first time, exposing hidden chemistry in a…
Iran war pushes Portugal to halve fossil fuel use over next 10 years – POLITICO
While this target has been in the works for a while, the center-right government has accelerated its planning…