Scientists found over 200,000 barrels of leaking radioactive waste
Scientists exploring the Northeast Atlantic have directly observed heavily corroded barrels of radioactive waste. Some are in bad…
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 8) from California’s scenic central…
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability seen on the Sun
The surface of the Sun has been photographed in more detail than ever before, and it turns out…
Sea snakes can have more potent venom than rattlesnakes; but there’s a surprising catch |
A sea snake gliding through warm coastal water hardly looks like the sort of animal that should be…
‘Fearless and quietly astonishing’: the dragonfly that migrates further than any other insect | Environment
All hail the wandering glider, a citizen of the globe, an insect for all of us. Whenever we…
In 1969, an Australian pilot leased a coral island left barren by guano mining; he flew in water and native trees, his plantings began a 50-year ecological recovery | World News
Aerial view of Lady Elliot Island. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons. In 1969, when pilot Don Adams set foot…
Northrop Grumman, Canadian Space Agency repurpose their Gateway projects
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency said this week they will adapt what they had…
10 of the biggest animals to ever exist in the world’s oceans
Researchers from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute spotted the whale and her calf off the coast of…
It’s about the size of Spain, stretches 800km – and protects the planet from a whopping 5 metres of rising sea levels
Ice shelves are large platforms of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by glaciers. They are found…
The alarming charts that reveal a planet in peril
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar system that will not repeat until the 2150s
Voyager 2 left Cape Canaveral at 14:29:44 UTC on 20 August 1977. Its Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket supplied the…
D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Published A Two Qubit Quantum Gate In Nature
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