First Australian death of little penguin with H5 bird flu confirmed on Phillip Island | Bird flu
Australia’s first case of the deadly H5 bird flu in a little penguin has been confirmed on Victoria’s…
Astronauts’ weight-bearing bones lose around 1 to 1.5 percent of their mineral density every month in microgravity — and with a journey to Mars potentially lasting nine months, their bodies could already be substantially deconditioned before they take a single step on another planet.
Astronauts do not lose bone evenly in microgravity. The largest changes occur in structures that normally support body…
Urban expansion and the collapse of tropical stream ecosystems
Ruddiman, W. F. The Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 45–68 (2013). Article Google Scholar Malhi, Y.…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
In 1965, two British sisters bought a Cornish Island for £22,000; they lived there for nearly 40 years and left it forever protected as a wildlife reserve
Looe Island from a small boat off shore. Image credits: Instagram/@visitlooe In 1965, sisters Roselyn “Babs” Atkins and…
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: Thoroughly engaging story of frantic race to smuggle out a V-2 – The Irish Times
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket Author: Guy Walters ISBN-13: 978-1035910854 Publisher: Head of Zeus Guideline Price: £25; 304pp On July…
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…
Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Astronomers…
Timmy the Turtle Was Swimming in Circles Before the Coast Guard and Doctors Came to Her Rescue
What Happened to Timmy? “We have some theories,” says Bette Zirkelbach, manager at the Turtle Hospital. Initially, doctors…
Hubble Reveals that Star Formation is Slowing Down in the Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy, one of the Milky Way’s closest cosmic neighbors, is a fascinating subject for astronomers. Located…
Tsunami warning lifted after earthquake kills two in Indonesia
Two people were killed after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Flores region on Saturday, following the lifting of…
NASA watched Earth disappear from the surface of Mars for the first time ever
Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another…