Decades of data show that snakebites are not random
Global snakebite patterns are predictably correlated with a variety of environmental and socioeconomic factors. Every morning, millions of…
Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.
Enceladus is small enough to fit comfortably within the length of Great Britain. Its electromagnetic influence, however, reaches…
At Denmark’s Port of Aalborg, designers cut a retired wind-turbine blade into a curved roof that now shelters bicycles — a second life for the composite piece turbines can’t easily recycle
At the Port of Aalborg in northern Denmark, a section of decommissioned wind-turbine blade sits on steel supports…
One of the world’s darkest paints makes everything look like a black hole – and it could save our night sky
A new study of one of the world’s darkest coatings suggests it could dramatically reduce the impact of…
Feisty survivor: Sage the rare olive ridley turtle is going home after ghost net ordeal
Sage, a rare olive ridley turtle, was rescued from a ghost fishing net in December 2025 and…
Scientists get close to discovering dark matter
Scientists searching for dark matter have detected a particle interaction that could be one of the strongest clues…
It’s one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it’s about to bloom with millions of flowers
Stretching along an over 1,000km-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes, is the Atacama…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Biopsies, aerial drills and a personal pizza: a day in the life of a shark scientist | Well actually
“Sharks are not monsters, they just need better PR,” writes Jasmin Graham. And she should know: Graham is…
The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a very bad day, not its normal state.
Voyager 2 reached Uranus on 24 January 1986 and remains the only spacecraft ever to have visited the…
The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
The numbers are now trickling in: nearly 2,900 dead in the UK, at least 35,000 dead across Europe.…
Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia
Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts said a small asteroid impact will happen over the Indian…