The fight to save the Ganges shark and its last refuge
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…
Radiation shielding vest could reduce cancer risk for astronauts on deep space missions – Physics World
Radiation shielding vest could reduce cancer risk for astronauts on deep space missions – Physics World Skip to…
Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our…
NOAA issues geomagnetic storm watch as CMEs head toward Earth — northern lights possible Aug. 27-28
Aurora chasers are on alert after NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm…
NSF Awards Yale-Led Center $37.5M for Quantum Error Correction Research
Insider Brief Yale will lead a $37.5 million NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute focused on developing practical approaches…
Conservationists celebrate ‘bounty of barn owl chicks’ in Northern Ireland – The Irish Times
Conservationists are celebrating the birth of a “bounty of barn owl chicks” in Northern Ireland. Two barn owl…
Quantum Computers Could Give Scientists a New Way to Explore The Hidden Behavior of Matter
Insider Brief Researchers developed a generalized quantum computational spectroscopy method that uses quantum computers to study complex systems…
We finally have some encouraging news on Great Barrier Reef water quality
Imagine a plume of brown sediment is washed off the land into Queensland rivers and carried out to…
APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST Images The Lion’s Head Nebula
Explanation: Are we looking at the future of our Sun? The James Webb Space Telescope captured today’s composite…
Researchers Develop Quantum Memories for Long-Distance Networks
Insider Brief The University of Strathclyde is leading a three-year, €2 million EU-funded project to develop quantum memories…
Curiosity has found the largest field of honeycomb fractures it has ever encountered on Mars. Similar polygons elsewhere preserve mud repeatedly soaked and dried 3.8 billion years ago—but NASA says this new “sea of polygons” could also have been created by temperature swings, compression or mineral changes.
From orbit, the ground ahead of Curiosity looked light-toned and fairly smooth. When the rover drove onto it…
Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic
Scientists have found a new explanation for why Antarctica became covered in ice millions of years before the…