Scrub clearance in Curraheen described as a ‘disaster’ for hedgehogs, birds, bats and more
The clearing of vegetation growing alongside the N22 in Curraheen has been described by a leading Cork environmentalist…
Week 3 — A focus on the core while adding movements to your Pilates workout to target the upper back
In our Pilates programme last week, Aoife Lennon of Vanilla Matcha Pilates introduced several new movements aimed at…
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
A forester sprays a giant sequoia during a controlled burn in 2009 in Kings Canyon National Park. About…
Everyone talks about ‘equinox auroras’ — but the Harvest Moon may have other plans
Last winter I made two trips to see the aurora, one to northern Canada and the other to…
A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge
A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…
Pelican Knocks for Help, NOAA Biologists Respond
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Who better to come to the aid of a pelican who is in trouble…
Sentinel-3C and FLEX satellites launch to study Earth
image: ©imaginima | iStock Two European satellites with major UK contributions have successfully launched into orbit. They will…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…
Pikachu in space! New ESA-Pokemon partnership sends the electric mouse to the ISS
Pikachu is one of Earth’s newest outer space ambassadors, thanks to a new partnership. The European Space Agency…
Astronomy’s Decades-Long Quest To Understand Cosmic Topology
If some aspects of cosmic topology turn out to be true, the idea that starships might voyage the…
Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives | Alaska
The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week…
Scientists Say Lead in Ink Could Finally Crack Herculaneum’s Burnt Scrolls—So They Baked a Fake One as a Test
How do you test a theory on how to decipher a priceless archaeological artifact? According to a team…