Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear
A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard…
In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting
Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…
In 1949, five domestic cats were brought to Marion Island to control mice; their population grew to about 2,000 and was estimated to kill 450,000 seabirds a year
Satellite view of Marion Islands | Wikimedia Commons South Africa established a permanent meteorological station on sub-Antarctic Marion…
Were these polygonal cracks on Venus once on a seafloor?
View larger. | Here’s a region of cracks on Venus, 2nd world outward from our sun. They might…
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we’re excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is…
APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies…
Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878, today, the population of 11,000 is on the verge of eradicating the island’s forests
Newfoundland introduced moose for food in the region more than a century ago. Today, about 110,000 of their…
Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies…
Hundreds of sea turtles are stranded in Cape Cod each year. An ‘amazing network’ has mobilized to help | US news
Sea turtle #471 gasped audibly, as veterinarian Kathy Tuxbury palpated the surgical scar on the animal’s left flipper.…
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…
Meet Ryoya Sugimoto: The Japanese teenager who spotted strange jellyfish at a dock and helped scientists identify a species new to science
Representative Image of diverse jellyfish species drifting through Japanese coastal waters (AI-generated image) In 2018, 13-year-old Ryoya Sugimoto…
Earth’s crust off US East Coast cooled far faster than expected
Earth’s crust off the U.S. East Coast cooled as much as 1.6 times faster than conventional geological models…