Wildfires latest: Firefighters battling major incidents as Britons warned ‘country in the thick of it’
Emergency wildfires alert causes chaos on live TVYour support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights…
Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
Even after a nuclear reactor is switched off, activity continues deep inside its core. Long-lived radioactive fission products…
Teenager pleas guilty to attacking California sea lion in viral video | California
An 18-year-old California man has admitted he kicked a sea lion in a video that went viral recently…
Two Spacecraft Are Creating Fake 5-Hour Solar Eclipses—And Revealing A Faster Solar Wind
Topline If you were lucky enough to witness last week’s total solar eclipse, you’ll have seen one of…
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we’re excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is…
The idea that Earth is the Solar System’s ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean’s volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…
Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” Waveguide
Artist’s illustration of plasmon canalization in MoOCl₂, showing light propagating along a narrow channel. The image depicts the…
In 1949, five domestic cats were brought to Marion Island to control mice; their population grew to about 2,000 and was estimated to kill 450,000 seabirds a year
Satellite view of Marion Islands | Wikimedia Commons South Africa established a permanent meteorological station on sub-Antarctic Marion…
Titan’s air warms the surface and its sky cools it: the greenhouse effect adds about 38 degrees Fahrenheit while the high-altitude haze subtracts about 16, leaving the surface about 22 degrees warmer than Titan’s effective temperature
Planetary atmospheres can warm and cool at once, and Titan makes the split unusually clear. Saturn’s biggest moon…
Hope reborn in Colombia as signs of life emerge under earthquake debris
Rescuers reported apparent signs of life under the rubble in two of the Colombian cities hit hardest by…
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…
Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878, today, the population of 11,000 is on the verge of eradicating the island’s forests
Newfoundland introduced moose for food in the region more than a century ago. Today, about 110,000 of their…