Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason
A persistent patch of unusually warm tropical ocean helped intensify snowfall over East Antarctica, contributing to a temporary…
Labor Day in space: NASA astronauts get the holiday off
Like most of their compatriots here on terra firma, the three Americans living off Earth will get to…
How do animals survive life on the equator? The astonishing tricks rainforest creatures use to survive the world’s hottest, wettest forests
Living successfully in the tropics is no mean feat. Stuart Blackman looks at the living conditions at the…
Jura research casts new light on how rivers carve through landscapes
Their findings suggest that the contrast between the hardness of the riverbed and the sediment which causes the…
How China’s green tech is undercutting Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ oil strategy in Africa
In the US, the push is on to “drill, baby, drill”. In China, the national strategy is to…
US boosts its on-orbit threat inspection capability with new test
The United States has taken a significant step toward developing faster and more responsive capabilities for monitoring activity…
Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second
Insider Brief Sparrow Quantum and Ruhr University Bochum developed a deterministic source that delivers more than 500 million…
Asian Hornets 'established' in South East despite sightings drop – BBC
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Are we the aliens? Earth could be sending life to Venus, say scientists
A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over…
APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
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Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World
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Turtle doves released in South Downs National Park to help species recover
Conservationists have released 30 turtle doves in the South Downs National Park in a bid to help the…