Scientists Tracked Penguin Poop From Space and Noticed a Troubling Antarctic Shift
The pinkish color of these guano-covered Adélie penguins on Coronation Island in Antarctica is thanks to their diet.…
Suns Rays Erode Mars Atmosphere
Our Sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Short-Sellers Have a “Very Low” Survival Probability. Is He Right?
As is often the case following an initial public offering, some investors are betting that the pre-IPO hype…
Moon bear takes first steps in sunshine after years on illegal bile farm in Laos
Sunlight was something Jing Lee, a young moon bear in Laos, had never experienced during years of confinement…
Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
It took seven months to confirm that NASA’s Opportunity rover was dead. The U.S. space agency’s little robotic…
Night sky August 2026 — What you can see tonight
The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can…
Astronomers Measure the Long Reach of a Quasar
There are a number of things in the Universe that could wipe out life as we know it,…
Meet the marine iguana: The world’s only sea-going lizard that sneezes salt and shrinks to survive |
PC: By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada Most reptiles never venture beyond the shore. The marine iguana built its…
ESCRT-III proteins play an unexpected role in protecting DNA bridges during cell division
Every time a cell divides, it must accurately copy and distribute its DNA between two new cells. However,…
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
As the UK has baked through extreme heatwaves this summer, the same question has echoed across television studios…
NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the…
South Africa released 11 formerly captive elephants onto wild reserves; five years later, their behaviour closely matched elephants that had never lived in captivity
Rewilded elephants on Khamab Kalahari Reserve, who were observed during this research project (from left to right: Ngwedi,…