As global heating heads to 1.8C, is it time to consider the ‘Voldemort’ of climate policy?
The world is set to miss the 1.5°C global warming target, and plans are underway for UN climate…
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…
2,800+ wolves killed, nearly $10 million spent and 15 caribou herds still at risk: Why scientists say British Columbia is targeting the wrong problem
Since 2015, British Columbia has killed 200-300 wolves annually to help endangered caribou populations recover. Recently, the provincial…
A boy who started working in barbershops at 11 was named the world’s oldest working barber at 96, and 11 years later he was still cutting five days a week from noon to eight, spending much of the day on his feet in the same worn, cracked black leather shoes.
Most people who reach 107 are not standing up for hours a day with scissors in hand, taking…
Live updates: Rescues underway as two workers pulled alive more than a week after Nepal-China floods
Arnold Dix, a disaster-response expert and tunnel engineering professor advising the rescue efforts, described the operation as a…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…
In 1972, scientists travelled into remote Queensland after receiving an unidentified snake head. What they found became one of Australia’s most famous venomous snakes
In 1972, scientists travelled into remote Queensland after receiving an unidentified snake head. What they found became one…
How brainless sea sponges use sunset as a cue to prepare for metamorphosis
Well before I start collecting coats, keys or shoes, my dog always knows when we’re about to leave.…
‘Everyone seems to have forgotten’: In Tibet, flood-hit families search for the missing and grapple with China’s silence | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
Fan Hong last heard from her husband on the morning of the Nepal-Tibet disaster. More than a week…
Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic…
A newly found star circles the Milky Way’s central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than 8 percent of the speed of light, and the pass is so close that its discoverers say there is a fair chance of measuring the hole’s spin within a decade
A faint point of light showed up 15 milliarcseconds northwest of Sagittarius A* in the spring of 2023,…
Scientists use satellite tags and time-depth recorders to track female northern elephant seals diving 1,735 metres into the Pacific Ocean |
A female northern elephant seal disappeared beneath the Pacific surface carrying a small electronic recorder that would reveal…