SSpace Read More Mars passes in front of a beautiful star cluster this weekend. Here’s how to see itOctober 9, 2026 Mars and Jupiter are currently the planets of the moment, shining like two beautiful bright ‘stars’ in the…
WWildlife Read More Country diary: A passing osprey needs to eat – but the local terns won’t let it | BirdsOctober 9, 2026 The autumnal sunlight gilded the sea as our boat drifted off Fowley Island, a small, uninhabited tidal saltmarsh…
SScience Read More Watch private Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft leave the International Space Station todayOctober 9, 2026 NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 Departure – YouTube Watch On A private cargo spacecraft will leave…
EEnvironment Read More Refined crop modelling reveals intensifying impacts of droughts and heatwaves on global wheat productivityOctober 9, 2026 Rezaei, E. E. et al. Climate change impacts on crop yields. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 4, 831–846 (2023).…
WWildlife Read More Take a Closer Look at Bears, Birds, and Blooms From Nat Geo’s Photo EditorsOctober 9, 2026 A Day at the ShipyardWhile snapping pictures at a shipyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh, photographer GMB Akash could hear…
SScience Read More Investigation of key parameters influencing 222Rn exhalation rate from selected industrial and environmental samples using AlphaGUARD monitorOctober 9, 2026 Effect of sample area on the inferred effective 226Ra activity concentration and exhalation rate of radon-222 To investigate…
EEnvironment Read More 12 Trillion Tons of Polar Ice Are Already Gone and What’s Left Is Melting Fast. But the Biggest Culprit Isn’t Surface MeltingOctober 9, 2026 A photo showing polar ice melting in Greenland. Image credits: Dave Meckler/Unsplash The world’s great ice sheets are…
SSpace Read More Orionid meteor shower 2026 — How to see meteors from Halley’s Comet this OctoberOctober 9, 2026 The Orionid meteor shower returns this October, giving skywatchers another chance to catch a glimpse of debris left…
PPhysics Read More To Win A Nobel Prize, Go To The Ends Of The EarthOctober 9, 2026 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino…
WWildlife Read More Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon | ConservationOctober 9, 2026 By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals…
SScience Read More Anthropic’s Claude Science creates the first complete ultraviolet map of the skyOctober 9, 2026 Anthropic’s Claude Science just mapped the entire sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. The project is…
EEnvironment Read More US waste company plans 60MW waste-to-energy plant in VietnamOctober 9, 2026 David Duong started his business 34 years ago with eight used collection trucks that he drove around Oakland.…