Officials seize 50,000 shark fins disguised as car parts at U.S. ports
Inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seized roughly 50,000 dried shark fins at ports across the…
Black Ghost Knifefish Inspires Next-Generation Maneuverable Underwater Robots
Published in the journal Ocean, the study led by Ze-Jun Liang and colleagues from Northwestern Polytechnical University’s Ocean Institute…
Invasive long-spined sea urchin found on Tasmania’s west coast sparks fears for marine habitat
The discovery of a long-spined sea urchin on Tasmania’s remote west coast has signalled a critical new expansion…
NASA Wants to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Having demonstrated that it has the operational capability to transport humans safely to the moon and back, the…
Photographer Reflects on Epic Career Capturing Great White Sharks on ’60 Minutes’
Wildlife photographer Chris Fallows, known for his striking images of great white sharks in False Bay, spoke with…
UNM astronomers reveal always-changing multi-planet system
Astronomers at The University of New Mexico have published new research confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic exoplanet…
Satellite captures the first high-resolution look at a giant tsunami
When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a…
NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X
An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer)…
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of…
Brazil’s Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Return to Rio After 200 Years: ‘A dream come true’
A blue and yellow macaw in Jurong National Park, credit – Luc Viatour, CC 2.0. In Rio de…
A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave
Artistic depiction of an ancient Neanderthal around a campfire. Humans and Neanderthals not only coexisted and interbred, but…
ISO Releases New Version of Flagship Environmental Management Standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced the release of ISO 14001:2026, the new edition of its flagship…