Ancient DNA shows Ice Age humans targeted female mammoths | News
Excavation in Langmannersdorf in 2025. (Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Cavemen targeted female…
MaiaSpace Losses Required ArianeGroup to Decide on Company’s Future
Credit: MaiaSpace ArianeGroup has decided against dissolving MaiaSpace after the company posted a €37.5 million loss for 2025,…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
The horrifying truth behind Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’: Scientists discover the striking red waterfall is teeming with ancient sea creatures trapped beneath the ice
Scientists have uncovered the gruesome secret behind Antarctica’s infamous Blood Falls – it’s alive with the descendants of…
Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star
For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…
It requires chilly temperatures of 0 ̊C to survive. If exposed to the balmy warmth of 4.4 ̊C, their membranes dissolve and they will melt into goo
Did you now there are some worms that can live in ice? Ice worms can be found living…
Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Science policy
Your editorial rightly criticises the decision to cease funding the Lovell telescope from March 2028 (The Guardian view…
APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great…
Invasive rats are stopping small mammals from returning to Madagascar’s regenerating forests – study
In south-eastern Madagascar, patches of forest that were once cut down to make way for farms are slowly…
aerospace steel and rammed earth shape homeware for life on mars
Roc H Biel imagines homeware of Mars to critique the space race Roc H Biel presents Martian…
On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
Altermagnetic photonic crystals | Nature Physics
Šmejkal, L., Sinova, J. & Jungwirth, T. Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism. Phys. Rev. X 12, 040501 (2022).…