Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.…
VIDEO: Scientists sample tephra from inside crater on Kilauea volcano summit
Three scientists went on a mission to collect tephra samples from one of Kilauea’s craters in order to…
Why water shortages are coming to Britain
Gleick thinks this is a sign of things to come for countries such as Britain: the wealthy will…
NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic…
The optics of an OCR increase during an election year
While the choice to hike the Official Cash Rate (OCR) can be justified economically, how these decisions are…
7/9/2026: Tropical cyclones suck the atmosphere dry
The aftermath of 1991 Cyclone Val in Western Samoa. Despite the intense rainfall during cyclones, drier conditions follow…
Sold as nothing more than clean power, a Sahara paved in solar panels would more than double the rain in the Sahel, and the reason is the opposite of what almost everyone assumes
Rain almost never reaches the deep Sahara. Some corners of it go years between storms, and the sand…
Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87 | US news
Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half…
To Ancient Astronomers, Theta Eridani Was Brighter For A Thousand Years. Now We Know Why
There’s a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD…
Death Divers Jump Off 65-Foot-Tall Iceberg in Greenland
Dumb ways to die. Photo: 00Nation // YouTube Death diving is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.…
NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on…
Researchers confirm cause of Earth’s biggest mass extinction
image: Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). (Image credit:…