It’s a staggering 300 metres underground, features amazing 11-metre-tall crystals – and has a deadly 90% humidity level
The aptly named Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried around 300 metres underground and contains giant…
Premier’s boat trip passed into sanctuary zone while towing lures, RecFish SA concedes
South Australia’s peak recreational fishing body has taken responsibility for a boating blunder on Labor’s campaign trail, conceding…
🔭 A mapping of supermassive black holes near merger
Detecting supermassive black holes just before their merger would lead to significant advances in astrophysics. To achieve this,…
600-million-year-old secret of the human body may lie inside this brainless ocean creature |
The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about…
Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish | Global development
On my journey documenting environmental stories in Kenya, I attended the Africa Climate Summit in 2023. It ignited…
Baby Gorilla Gets Tiny ‘Nose Boop’ From His Big Sister in Moment of Pure Sweetness
Adding a new baby is always an exciting time for a growing family. The older kids are typically…
Ex-Google boss may launch a bigger-than-Hubble space telescope within three years
When Yerkes Observatory opened in Wisconsin in 1897, it was a wonder. Alongside the great one-metre (40-inch) telescope…
A perfectly balanced atom just broke one of nuclear physics’ biggest rules
For many years, nuclear physicists believed that “Islands of Inversion” were found mainly in isotopes packed with extra…
Secret staircase to ‘Lost Pompeii’ found in groundbreaking archaeological discovery
The grand staircase inside Pompeii’s House of Thiasus villa was previously thought to lead nowhere – but it…
NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other
Roughly 15% of asteroids that pass near Earth have a smaller companion orbiting them. These paired objects are…
Werner Herzog Captures a Man’s Tireless Search for Ghost Elephants
The first photo of a ghost elephant captured by a motion controlled camera. The eyes glow in this…
Scientists Form Complex DNA Structures Without Hydrogen Bond
Complex DNA architectures are obtained by stacking triangular units, much like well-placed bricks without mortar. Credit Simon Vecchioni…