How worried should we be about this year’s ‘Super-Duper El Niño’? – The Irish Times
Should we be worried about El Niño? The phenomenon is a naturally occurring part of what is known…
Mars’s Interior is 400°C Hotter Under Southern Hemisphere
The planet Mars is a cold and dry world completely devoid of life, but billions of years ago…
Astronomers Catch Black Hole Spewing Matter After Feeding
Black holes are some of the most awe-inspiring and mysterious celestial objects in the universe. This is primarily…
Think Wild seeks volunteers for beaver habitat | Pets, Animals and Nature
BEND, Ore. — Think Wild animal hospital is recruiting hundreds of volunteers this fall to help restore beaver…
Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today
Two astronauts will conduct history’s sixth all-female spacewalk today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live. NASA’s…
As wildfires ravage Irish uplands, has work even begun on the promised national plan? – The Irish Times
Sir, – Your article on wildfires (“Life in Ireland’s wildfire zones: ‘I’ll never forget that evening on Slievenamon…
Elon Musk drops stunning SpaceX forecast
A revenue target posted on X (the former Twitter) on Aug. 27 would require a private company to…
Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe’s Mysterious Arrow of Time
Scientists and philosophers have argued over the nature of time since … well, since time immemorial. Does time…
When animals invade: Five memorable animal encounters at the footy
Snakes, elephants, a pig and more – we look back at some of the most remarkable animal-related incidents…
Scientists get 2 genetic codes working in one cell, a step toward life built with novel proteins
Scientists have cleared a striking hurdle in synthetic biology: They got two different genetic codes working inside the…
Damage Projections for Nankai Trough and Greater Tokyo Earthquakes
The Japanese government estimates that potential major earthquakes over the coming decades could lead to massive fatalities. Disaster…
Across six Apollo landings, astronauts left a commonly cited 96 waste bags and containers on the Moon. Researchers have proposed retrieving one—not to clean up, but to discover whether any human microbes survived up to 57 years of lunar radiation, vacuum and extreme temperature swings.
One of the strangest experiments in astrobiology has already been running for more than half a century. Nobody…