Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning | El Niño southern oscillation
British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days…
The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home
For Mars missions, those navigational points may include asteroids, Holt says. “We would say [to the astronaut], we…
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing.…
In 1995, Canada eradicated rats from British Columbia’s Langara Island; by 2004, ancient murrelet pairs had nearly doubled to 20,000–30,000 | World News
Image of an Ancient Murrelet. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Islands have long been risky places for ground-nesting birds…
Wildfires can be tracked by their distinctive rumble
acoustic: Having to do with sound or hearing. array: A broad and organized group of objects. Sometimes they…
Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England | Water
Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people,…
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet,…
Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
Deep-sea ‘ghost shark’ spotted feeding in the shallows off the coast of Vancouver Island
An underwater photographer was finally rewarded with a sighting of a rarely seen deep-sea fish when a chimaera…
New injectable treatment helps the brain rebuild after stroke
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable biomaterial that may help the brain recover from damage…
‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’ | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be found, and some…
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…