Restoring Sabah’s rainforest with community conservation
LAHAD DATU, Sabah – As Taisa Mating, a grandmother of nine, bends down to pick up a seed…
Violent supernova remnants may still nurture the chemistry of life
Astronomers have found warm cocoons of gas wrapped around newborn stars inside the wreckage of a star that…
MIT Scientists Create Robot That Can Fly and Swim
Scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have created a flying robot that can also dive underwater. The…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Rocket stages stacked and ready for liftoff today
2026-07-16T11:29:18.830Z Starship stacked, awaiting launch countdown SpaceX’s first Starship V3 vehicle launches on a test flight on May…
Why do astronauts’ bodies waste away? Space-station study points to mitochondria
The mitochondrion (green in this false-colour transmission electron micrograph) could have a role in the physiological effects of…
Big Bees at Risk: How Rising Global CO₂ Levels Threaten Key Pollinators and Food Crops
Pollinators — including bees, flies, wasps, moths, butterflies and some nectar-loving birds — are a cornerstone of our…
A laser disappears into the Milky Way’s heart photo of the day for July 16, 2026
The Gemini South Observatory shoots out a beam of light. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek) A laser…
Why some primates have even tougher births than humans
Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates. And it’s true that…
Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works
Earth appears to have a natural climate control system that has helped keep the planet habitable for more…
New Horizons mission wakens to explore solar system fringes
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
Bear invades elderly couple’s home, empties fridge in Northern Japan
Bear invades elderly couple’s home, empties fridge in Northern Japan (Representative image: AP) A bear allegedly broke into…
Saturn’s moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
The Huygens probe drifted under a parachute through an orange haze on January 14, 2005, and set down…