Canada’s West Coast Ports Eye Bigger Role as Trade Shifts Beyond U.S.
Canada’s largest West Coast ports are positioning themselves for a bigger role in the country’s push to diversify…
Partial lunar eclipse Aug. 27-28 live updates — tonight is the night!
2026-08-27T10:09:26.409Z Tonight’s the night! Don’t miss the deep partial lunar eclipse (Image credit: Created in Canva Pro) The…
Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material
A recently proposed form of magnetism known as altermagnetism could eventually help researchers make computer memory smaller, faster,…
JMIR calls for papers on misinformation in scholarly publishing
Shutterstock.com/Ekaterina_Minaeva JMIR Publications has launched a call for papers examining misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation generated or perpetuated through…
‘Parisians out!’ Why the French have had enough of French tourists | France
Name: “Parisians out!” Age: It officially commenced at the start of August. Appearance: Scratched into cars and painted…
Why was the first picture of the Red Planet’s surface black and white – and what camera was used to take it 50 years ago?
Over 50 years ago, on July 20 1976, NASA achieved something quite incredible for humanity and photography. At…
Invasive Species India: In the 1840s, this African snail reached India decades ago and now appears in gardens and farms across the country
Giant African Snail (Photo via Canva) The Giant African Snail came to India nearly 180 years ago, and…
Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material
A recently proposed form of magnetism known as altermagnetism could eventually help researchers make computer memory smaller, faster,…
Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods
The UN desertification conference, running from 17 to 28 August in Mongolia, is has awarded three land rejuvenation programmes,…
APOD: 2026 August 27 – Colorful Aurora over an Icelandic Waterfall
Explanation: What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain…
A severe drought forced Australian scientists to rescue platypuses and keep them in captivity for five months; after being returned to the wild, they rebuilt their home ranges and resumed normal movements within days
Representative Image (AI-generated) For five months, a group of platypuses lived far from the waterways they once called…
In 2025, NASA funded LEAP, a jumping robot concept designed to bound directly through the geysers of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, collecting water and ice expelled from its buried ocean. The appeal is beautifully simple: instead of drilling through kilometres of ice to reach the ocean, let the ocean erupt directly into the robot’s sampler.
Enceladus presents planetary scientists with an unusual offer. Its ocean is buried beneath ice, but some of that…