The End of the European Summer
Although climate scientists warned in the nineteen-eighties that extreme heat posed a growing danger, policymakers in Europe didn’t…
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across…
Smithsonian researchers used X-rays, plastic cups and 216-yard spools of thread to find wild turtle nests; predators raided 13 of 16
Eastern box turtle (Image Credit: Canva) Finding a turtle nest in the wild is far more difficult than…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of its…
World-first wooden turbine blade plant aims to tackle fiberglass waste
A German startup is moving forward with plans to build the world’s first large-scale factory for wooden wind…
Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
You’ve read it, heard it in casual conversations, and seen it in TV shows and movies: black holes…
From Beaches to Bits to Qubits
Insider Brief Silicon’s path from beach sand to quantum processor traces an unbroken arc from 1950s transistor doping…
‘Like a sci-fi movie’: giant spider web covers Israeli nature reserve
A giant blanket of spider webs is covering the vegetation after millions of long-jawed orb-weaver spiders of the…
NASA’s SkyFall Mars Helicopters Will Feature a Revolutionary Antenna Design
From 2021 to 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian…
China’s Renewables Boom Faces Record Clean Power Curtailments
Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind…
The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be ‘Black Hole Stars’
The early Universe’s Little Red Dots (LRD) could be the JWST’s strangest discovery. LRDs are small, red, astronomical…
Meet Mohammed Almuntasir: The Libyan wildlife photographer whose 18-second YouTube video proved a “ghost cat” still lives in Libya | World News
In 2017, Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded an 18-second YouTube video that appeared to show nothing more than a small…