Photographer has astonishing leopard shark encounter in enchanted kelp forest
In June 2025, underwater videographer Jordan Manning shared spellbinding footage that shows just how peaceful sharks can be. In the…
Scientists find evidence for two origins of life on Earth
Where and how did life first emerge on Earth? Those questions are at the heart of research at…
Europe is the world’s fastest warming continent. What is to blame? | Extreme weather
The whole world is getting hotter as carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning traps ever more heat, but…
Watch: How Ireland viewed the solar eclipse of 1999
Shortly after 6pm this evening Ireland will experience a partial solar eclipse as the Moon moves across the…
A Human-Specific Gene May Help Explain Our Extraordinary Brainpower
A human-specific gene may help explain why key brain cells mature so slowly and what that timing means…
Remains of lost village uncovered as drought lowers reservoir levels in record-breaking heatwave
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Elon Musk Said SpaceX’s AI Revenue Will Outpace All Its Other Products
Elon Musk has predicted that AI will earn SpaceX more money than its other offerings. On Tuesday, SpaceX…
Gazing grizzly bear among 9 extraordinary images by wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen
Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen has spent more than three decades capturing images of the natural world. After years…
In 1989, Voyager 2 measured winds up to 2,100 kilometres an hour circling an Earth-sized storm on Neptune; by 1994, when Hubble looked again, the storm had simply vanished, unlike Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which has raged for more than a century
In 1989, Voyager 2 measured winds up to 2,100 kilometres an hour circling an Earth-sized storm on Neptune.…
UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds | Economics
Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK economy more than £4bn in lost…
Total Solar Eclipse – August 12th, 2026
The eclipse will be visible in the shaded regions shown above. There will be a total solar eclipse…
NASA proposed Mars in the 1980s and Europe once aimed for 2033; today NASA says its architecture is not a mission or manifest, which explains why no landing date is official
Human beings have been “about twenty years” from Mars for more than half a century. The dates change,…