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…
New injectable treatment helps the brain rebuild after stroke
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable biomaterial that may help the brain recover from damage…
‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’ | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be found, and some…
Astronomers See How a Centaur Can Become a Comet
Centaurs are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. Because they move among…
Scientists Built a Sound ‘Tractor Beam’ That Can Move Objects From Nearly Half a Meter Away
A speck of polystyrene seemingly floating above a device. Credit: Physical Review Letters A tiny polystyrene bead hangs…