Hydraulic traits govern opposing range shifts of montane trees under warming
Sayre, R. et al. A new high-resolution map of world mountains and an online tool for visualizing and…
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope’s little red dots — and how they might be evolving
New evidence has come to light showing that the mysterious ‘little red dots’ discovered in the early universe…
China finds first strong evidence of mysterious new matter glueball
In a global first, researchers at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China have found experimental…
What’s behind this summer’s butterfly boom in your garden?
Analysis: Native Irish butterflies may have declined in population since 2008, but migrant butterflies are increasingly attracted here…
NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the “Big Bang”, to keep…
I’m a disaster responder – Britain’s constant heatwaves have left it broken, bone-dry and in denial
If the unbearable heat wasn’t enough, leading to our hottest June day and night on record, the consecutive…
‘Not looking good right now’: Starship likely to be lost at sea 2 weeks after epic 13th test flight, Elon Musk says
It looks like Starship’s two-week-long ocean adventure won’t have a happy ending. The SpaceX megarocket conducted its 13th…
Farmers in Kenya dispute that cyanide poisoning could have killed 15 elephants
Last month, the Kenya Wildlife Service announced that 15 elephants had died in the Amboseli ecosystem in a…
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012 — but it will still take many thousands of years to exit the Oort Cloud, meaning it has technically left the solar system and is nowhere near leaving the solar system at the same time
Voyager 1 has been travelling away from the Sun since 1977. It has passed every planet, crossed the…
AI analysis reveals dramatic rise in global ocean algae blooms
An analysis of 1.2 million satellite images powered by artificial intelligence has uncovered a massive expansion of floating…
SpaceX serious about building factories on the moon: ‘It’s going to happen,’ Elon Musk says
As usual, SpaceX is dreaming big. The company plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to…
Meet the only truly wild camel left on Earth that survives by drinking water saltier than the ocean |
Bactrian Camel (AI-generated image) In the remote Gobi Desert spanning northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia, a critically endangered…