Live updates: Spain and France wildfires; thousands evacuated as firefighters battle to control flames
Firefighters are battling to contain wildfires which have forced more than 250,000 people to evacuate from their homes…
World’s First Room-Temperature Quantum Material Sorts Light in an Unprecedented Way
A new Nature study establishes a blueprint for engineering future quantum materials that operate under everyday conditions. Credit:…
A lion’s tongue is covered in hollow, backward-pointing spines called papillae, widely credited with stripping flesh from bone and lifting hair from a hide: the same structure that makes a lick from a domestic cat feel like sandpaper
The spines on a lion’s tongue are made of keratin, the same material as its claws, and they…
US scientists find cleaner way to separate rare earths using minerals
Rare earth elements power everything from electric vehicle motors and wind turbines to MRI scanners and smartphones. However,…
We talk with astronaut Michael Foale about the 1997 Space Station Mir crisis: ‘He took all the blame of the collision on his shoulders’
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Somewhere in the dried bed of an ancient Martian river, the Perseverance rover has been drilling into rocks for more than four years — and last June, NASA scientists announced that two of them contain the same complex carbon-based molecules that form the building blocks of life on Earth
A paper published in Science Advances on 24 June 2026 reports the detection of complex organic carbon in…
The Backyard “Silly Sprinkler” That Cracked One of Physics’ Biggest Puzzles
This photograph shows the jet-like flows of water emitted by the forward sprinkler, as visualized using dye and…
Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized for a potential JUICE flyby
Minor Planet Center. Natural Satellites Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center, accessed 28 May 2026); https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NatSats/NaturalSatellites.html Sheppard, S.…
NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth on July 26: Watch it live
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North American beavers in sub-Antarctic Chile are doing more than flooding forests; they are turning riparian land into methane-spewing wetlands |
North American beavers in sub-Antarctic Chile are doing more than flooding forests; they are turning riparian land into…
Quantum Zeno effect could freeze tomorrow’s bigger quantum computers
The race to build larger and more powerful quantum computers has mostly focused on engineering: adding more qubits,…
New Zealand’s Canada Geese: From Hunting Delight to Agricultural Nightmare | World News
50 Canada geese were imported from North America in 1905. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons What began as an…