Baffin Island’s ancient ice cap, a frozen relic older than civilization, ran out of snow in the middle of summer for the first time ever recorded
For thousands of years, the Barnes Ice Cap has held its ground on Baffin Island — a remnant…
Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars’s Crust
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and…
Award-winning images of night sky capture fleeting moments not usually seen by naked eye – The Irish Times
This year’s Reach for the Stars astrophotography competition attracted more than 140 entries from photographers across Ireland. The…
The world’s biggest trees could hold the secret to coping with drought
Rising more than 70 metres above the rainforest canopy, a giant skyscraper of a tropical tree can seem…
“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
The 1919 Eclipse Plates That Proved Einstein Right
For about five minutes on May 29, 1919, the Moon blotted out the Sun over an island in…
Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides
Worker bees normally serve as a colony’s first line of defense against contamination, filtering harmful substances before they…
Nighttime restrictions put in place on major water supply in Mayo – news
Uisce Éireann is advising customers on the Erris Regional Water Supply Scheme that nighttime restrictions will come into…
Astronomers Realize Dark Matter Has Been Magnifying Cosmic Readings
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have announced new research suggesting that neutrino detections at…
Caltech Physicists Use Advanced Quantum Technologies to Test Decades-Old Theory Predictions – Pasadena Now
Left to right: Yuan Le, Xiangkai Sun, Jason Alicea, Manuel Endres, Stephen Naus, and Richard Bing-Shiun Tsai in…
Archaeologists discover mysterious 400-year-old Indigenous pot in Florida
Roughly 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe shaped a small clay vessel by hand.…
On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing
Joint management of the Great Barrier Reef is changing, with Traditional Owners playing an increasing role in…