SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch ‘in a few months,’ Elon Musk says
We’ll have to wait a bit longer for a highly anticipated Starship milestone, it appears. On Aug. 4,…
It uses its razor-sharp saw-like teeth as a cookie cutter to rip circular chunks of flesh from its prey
One of the weirdest sharks in the world, and smaller than a koi the cookiecutter shark, found in…
Biosphere 2 was built to test whether eight people could survive completely sealed off from the rest of Earth for two years — but inside its glass walls, cockroaches and stowaway ants boomed while most of the birds and pollinators died.
Picture two versions of Earth. One is the planet outside your window, running its rainforests and coral reefs…
A UK solar farm began generating electricity in 2013; 12 years later its biodiversity had risen 41 per cent | World News
Representative Image of a solar farm integrated with thriving wildlife habitats, vibrant flora, and diverse fauna (AI-generated image)…
Artemis Mission Patches – NASA
A jacket decorated with Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the…
It’s as long as a 2 litre soda bottle, has 21 legs, is venomous enough to kill a bat – and a small child – and has eaten flesh from a human corpse
The biggest centipede in the world is the aptly named Amazonian giant centipede, measuring up to an incredible…
Molecular Bypasses Boost Grass Lignin, Starch Synthesis
One hundred million years ago, long before human intervention, ancestors of grasses, like wheat, rice and maize generated…
France nuclear power plants: How heatwaves and drought affect reactors in 2026
High temperatures and low water levels can force reactors to reduce output or shut down Golfech has temporarily…
A weather satellite 22,000 miles above Earth saved my 2026 total solar eclipse cruise on the Mediterranean Sea
When the 11,000-ton cruise ship Le Boréal set sail from Nice, France, on Thursday, Aug. 6, its 205…
An octopus was filmed carrying two halves of a coconut shell across the seafloor to reassemble them later as a portable suit of armour, one of the only clear cases of a wild invertebrate using tools.
A team of Australian marine biologists were diving off the coast of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, on a research…
Scientists reported phosphine in Venus’s clouds in 2020, then watched the finding come under fierce attack. But years of follow-up observations have repeatedly recovered the signal with far more data, while no known non-biological process has yet been shown to produce the claimed amounts.
The phosphine argument at Venus did not end when the original result was challenged. Reprocessed ALMA observations, a…
As super El Nino looms, wealthy nations must learn from those already living with water scarcity
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…