Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles? An expert explains
Last week a government minister in the Northern Territory, spruiking a plan to make Darwin “the datacentre capital…
A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report
The amount of space junk falling back to Earth is increasing as more rockets and satellites are launched…
Hundreds of exotic ‘by-the-wind sailors’ wash up on an England beach after strong westerly winds; experts warn beachgoers not to touch them
Hundreds of exotic ‘by-the-wind sailors’ wash up on an England beach after strong westerly winds; experts warn beachgoers…
What A 400-Year-Old Shark Can Teach Us About Human Longevity
Plate showing the Northern lemargus (lamargus borealis) or Greenland shark. Book “Voyage en Islande et au Groenland” by…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Saturn’s moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop…
A 14-kilometre iceberg cut off food supply to an Antarctic penguin colony, and chick numbers dropped by 69% in one breeding season
How one iceberg changed everything for Antarctic penguin colony When it comes to nature, it often reminds us…
Scientists left water inside a battery and nearly doubled its power
Sodium ion batteries could offer a more sustainable way to store large amounts of energy, and new research…
Funnels That Harvest Rain and Solar Power While Shading a Public Plaza
Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces…
A piece of SpaceX rocket will slam into the moon. How to see the aftermath
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after…
IBM’s quantum computer cuts error rates 10x in 15-minute test
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have demonstrated a quantum computing system that they say can perform a…
Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth’s coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization
Happy Shark Week, science fans! To mark the occasion, we had a flurry of fishy features this week,…