Extraordinary shoebill encounter has more tourists hoping to see them
Jan. 28, 2026Updated Jan. 29, 2026, 11:53 a.m. ET Last November, a prehistoric-looking shoebill landed on a tour…
Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age
Image credits: Marcelo Cidrack. A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide…
How Earth’s atmosphere and climate come together to create a polar vortex
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed…
The West Faces Snow Drought
The mountains of the western United States are sporting thin winter coats in early 2026. Although most regions…
Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park unveils two new cheetah cubs
Fota Wildlife Park is celebrating the birth of two endangered cheetah cubs. The cubs were born on November…
Strange Bright Lines on Mercury Suggest It’s Not ‘Dead’ After All : ScienceAlert
The smallest planet in our Solar System may be hiding a big secret. Curious bright streaks on Mercury‘s…
Polar bears and climate change: New research in Norway has scientists baffled
Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals…
Rocket Lab Neutron Fairing Breakthrough And Test Setback Reframe Reuse Ambitions
Rocket Lab (NasdaqCM:RKLB) delivered its world first “Hungry Hippo” reusable fairing to the Neutron launch site, introducing a…
Milky Way Magnetism Map Unveils Cosmic Evolution Insights
Rebecca Booth, Dr. Anna Ordog and Dr. Alex Hill with the DRAO 15m telescope behind them. Photo courtesy…
Giant worms discovered under the ocean: scientists can’t believe it
Giant worms discovered under the ocean: scientists can’t believe it – Futura-Sciences January 28, 2026 3 min Researchers…
Biofilms May Have Sparked Life on Earth—and Could Sustain It in Space
It’s 2041 and an astronaut on Mars Station 1 orbiting the Red Planet is inspecting life support systems…
How does probing almond-shaped nuclei help push the boundaries of nuclear physics?
Key Takeaways Argonne researchers used the Argonne Tandem Hall Laser Beamline for Atom and Ion Spectroscopy (ATLANTIS) apparatus…