Tourists rush to Iceland to witness rare total solar eclipse | Tourism
Tourists rush to Iceland to witness rare total solar eclipse
Iceland is preparing for a total solar eclipse…
Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test
Insider Brief Three recent experiments show how quantum technology could protect ballot secrecy and help verify election integrity,…
In 1964, an Australian couple camped on a North Queensland island; decades later, its pigeon colony had recovered from 1,451 birds to more than 40,000 | World News
Arthur and Margaret Thorsborne became conservationists after camping on Hinchinbrook Island. They initiated long-term pigeon population counts, chronicling…
Visible light knits nitroalkanes into alkenes
A quirky photochemical process has become the latest addition to the toolbox for making alkenes, a process…
Despite the drought, don’t give up on our native plants | Plants
Richard Eltringham (Letters, 5 August) argues that climate change necessitates switching to a planting palette of drought-tolerant non-native…
Your Guide to August 2026 Eclipse Season
star material Breaking down all the tools you need to use the universe to unpack your desires, fears,…
Fota seeking public’s help in naming Indian rhino calf
Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork has announced the birth of a male Indian rhino calf. The new…
Despite topping the OECD for tertiary-educated 25 to 34 year olds, South Korea also has a third of its working-age adults scoring at the lowest levels of literacy — and the gap reflects both generations and ageing
South Korea leads the developed world on one measure of education and lags on another, and both facts…
Brazil lost the Spix’s macaw from the wild for more than 20 years, then conservationists released captive-bred birds back into the Caatinga | World News
Image(s): Left/An 1878 painting of an adult by Joseph Smit/Right/Wikipedia For more than two decades, the Spix’s macaw…
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)
SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket…
Ireland’s white-tailed eagles went extinct due to human persecution, now the country has released 245 chicks in the wild about 100 years later
Once extinct in Ireland after decades of human persecution, the magnificent white-tailed eagle is soaring across the country’s…
‘Like a jail door slamming’: Male sperm whales’ mysterious rhythmic clanging is the loudest communication sound of any animal
Sperm whales make the loudest communication sound of any animal on Earth, researchers find — but they aren’t…