Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter
Black holes created before the Big Bang may have survived into the Universe we see today, according to…
Indonesian officials race to contain wildfires as dozens of schools shut | Climate Crisis News
Cloud-seeding aircraft have been deployed as dozens of schools remain closed due to poor air quality. Published On…
APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn
Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June…
Scientists Reveal Hidden Structure of a Quantum Fluid
Insider Brief Berkeley Lab researchers observed a tunable Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor, creating…
The island on New Zealand’s $5 note once held 200,000 rats; a 19-person team cleared them all, and native birds returned | World News
From rat-infested wilderness to a thriving haven for native birds. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. The island on the…
Starlink 10-19 Scrubbed, Rescheduled Tuesday, X Report 11 Aug 2026
Latest Developments SpaceX scrubbed the Starlink 10-19 mission from Cape Canaveral on Monday and is now targeting Tuesday…
Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46
Mariano Cenamo spent more than two decades trying to make standing forests economically competitive with cattle ranching…
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event induced currents so strong in North American telegraph lines that operators disconnected their batteries and kept sending messages on the geomagnetic current alone, while auroras lit up the sky over Cuba and Hawaii
On the morning of 2 September 1859, telegraph operators along the Boston-to-Portland line unplugged their batteries, watched the…
Thermal imaging technique helps overcome a major problem for gravitational-wave astronomy – Physics World
Thermal imaging technique helps overcome a major problem for gravitational-wave astronomy – Physics World Skip to main content…
In 1964, an Australian couple camped on a North Queensland island; decades later, its pigeon colony had recovered from 1,451 birds to more than 40,000 | World News
Arthur and Margaret Thorsborne became conservationists after camping on Hinchinbrook Island. They initiated long-term pigeon population counts, chronicling…
Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 1 day until totality
2026-08-11T08:10:01.994Z Tomorrow is the day! Are you ready? After years of anticipation, the wait is almost over. Tomorrow,…
A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
In 1999, out on the gravel flats of central Oman, someone picked up a dark, unremarkable rock. It…