John Barkham obituary | Environment
My dad, John Barkham, who has died aged 82, was an inspirational teacher of ecology and a lifelong…
China Provides Glimpse of Colossal Orbital Aircraft Carrier
Last weekend, a China Central Television YouTube channel shared a video showing off some recent developments in autonomous…
See the first baby elephant born at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in nearly 25 years
A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in…
Sunspot region continues to blast out powerful solar flares
A newly active area on the sun is responsible for dozens of eruptions known as solar flares, including…
Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians
LISTEN | Full interviews with scientist Christine Bishop and union leader Sean O’Reilly: What On Earth24:10What Ottawa’s job…
Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth’s darkest sky gets cancelled
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories…
Watch dead neutron stars smash together in new NASA supercomputer simulation
A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars…
Quebec fisherman reels in 244-pound, record-breaking Atlantic halibut — for science
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying neptunium, a rare radioactive element. It serves as the…
Scientists May Have Just Seen a Black Hole Explode, and It Could Change Everything
In 2023, the detection of an unusually high-energy neutrino puzzled scientists, as no known cosmic source could explain…
Photons Demonstrate Thermal Equilibrium Via Continuous Exchange With Average Energy
Scientists are re-examining the very foundations of temperature and thermal equilibrium, proposing that photons, not simply heat transfer,…
Why the Chagos Islands’ ecology will not be wrecked by return to Mauritius | Chagos Islands
There has long been a lobby against returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius based on tenuous environmental arguments,…