Fossil hunters find a new dinosaur track site on South Africa’s coast – the youngest so far
Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past,…
Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Linked to Airborne Mineral Dust
A University of Waterloo scientist and a team of international collaborators found that airborne mineral dust and other…
‘Extraordinary’ trove of ancient species found in China quarry
PARIS, Jan 29 — Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion…
Venus Might Harbor Massive Subsurface Lava Tunnels
It’s 2050 and you’re living on Venus. This might come as a surprise due to the planet’s crushing…
Discovery of badly decomposed whale carcass on Sai Kung beach triggers probe
Hong Kong authorities are investigating the discovery of a severely decomposed whale carcass discovered on a beach in…
430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found
An undated photo provided by Nicholas Thompson shows small 430,000-year-old wooden tools of uncertain function recovered from a…
February starts with a Full Moon
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New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’ | Pfas
New filtration technology developed by Rice University may absorb some Pfas “forever chemicals” at 100 times the rate…
Venice’s lagoons invaded by colony of cannibal jellyfish
The gelatinous creature, also known as the sea walnut, normally lives in the western Atlantic. But it has…
Monarch butterflies face a 3,000km migration. Can they survive with dwindling nectar supplies?
Published on 29/01/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Every autumn, millions of monarch butterflies embark on a treacherous journey –…
Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides
Map of the calculated magnetic anisotropy. (Credit: Beeson et al., Adv. Mat., 2025) Although most of us simultaneously…
Scientists drill ‘Doomsday Glacier’ to help predict sea level rise
The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, a huge mass of ice up to 2,000 metres thick which covers…