How COVID shutdowns led to a methane surge
In the early 2020s, as societies around the world shut down to protect their people from the…
Trump’s new Wildland Fire Service is failing to ignite
Wildfires have consumed thousands of buildings, killed dozens of people, and smothered millions in choking smoke in recent…
This SpaceX Situation: Not Good!
In 2015, after reading a book about how the telegraph created a sort of proto-internet that helped make…
Reprogrammed neutrophils promote tumor growth
Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…
Alberta Premier Smith Says Five West Coast Ports in Running For New Oil Pipeline
Alberta is homing in on potential routes for a proposed new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, and…
NASA chief flies over Artemis 2 moon rocket photo of the day for Feb. 5, 2025
With NASA’s Artemis 2 mission set to return humans to the moon for the first time in over…
Scientists Tried Drilling Into Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ But the Ice Had Other Plans
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep…
This black hole “burps” with Death Star energy
When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material…
Scientists Just Discovered a Neutrino With 100,000 Times the Power of the World’s Highest-Energy Particle Accelerator
In February 2023, a neutrino with an energy 100,000 times greater than anything the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…
Rembrandt lion drawing fetches nearly €13 million for big cats
February 5, 2026 The drawing in question. Photo: Sotheby’s A tiny drawing of a young lion by Rembrandt…
Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as…
Wind power pacts and pollution-busting kitchen appliances: Positive environmental stories from 2026
With powerful nations rolling back climate protections and temperatures soaring ever closer to dangerous thresholds, it’s hard not…