The fall equinox doesn’t really bring equal day and night — here’s why
The first day of fall in 2026 arrives Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 8:05 p.m. EDT (1205 GMT on…
It Was a Wild Morning Yesterday in San Francisco
San Francisco residents woke up to an uninvited visitor on Friday: a mountain lion weaving through the…
Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest Earth was already dragging surface water into its mantle and using it to generate volcanoes 3.1 billion years ago — through a primitive recycling process that may have preceded modern plate tectonics
Pillow lavas look like a heap of stone beanbags, slumped one over another where molten rock hit cold…
Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century
Malaria was once endemic across much of the Caribbean. This map shows how much progress has been made:…
5 amazing lunar sights to explore on International Observe the Moon Night tonight!
International Observe the Moon Night is upon us! To celebrate, we’ve put together a list of 5 breathtaking…
International Snakebite Awareness Day 2026 (ISBAD ’26)
Disabilities from snakebite envenoming: The Hidden Crisis Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease affecting poor people in…
On Deimos, orbital speed just above the surface is only about 14 km/h—around elite racewalking pace—while roughly 20 km/h would let you escape the tiny moon altogether.
On Earth, orbit belongs to the realm of rockets. The International Space Station travels at roughly 28,000 kilometres…
In The Middle Of The Amazon Forest, Scientists Discover A New Frog Species Hidden Among Lookalikes
Deep in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, scientists have identified a frog species that had remained…
International Observe the Moon Night 2026 shines tonight — Here’s how to join in
Moon lovers rejoice! International Observe the Moon Night returns tonight (Sept. 19). Here’s everything you need to know…
Forgotten on an island, these cows survived alone for 130 years, and their story fascinates scientists
Forgotten on an island, these cows survived alone for 130 years, and their story fascinates scientists – Futura-Sciences…
Reef fish on a Curaçao coral patch never bolted from a black disk expanding on an iPad below two metres a second, and that threshold sits just under the speeds at which bar jacks on the same reef were filmed attacking
Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of the thing…
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023
WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group. Global sea-level budget 1993–present. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 10, 1551–1590 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1551-2018 (2018).…