Zabaikalsky Region Offers Bounties for Bears as Human Encounters Rise
Authorities in Russia’s Far East Zabaikalsky region have introduced a bounty for bear culling in the region to…
Juice: ESA’s Jupiter mission completes third gravity assist
DIAS’s Dr Mika Holmberg talks to us about Juice, the first European-led mission to the outer solar system.…
Travellers name the cities where they felt ‘unwelcome’ – including popular areas in Japan and France
Travellers are dishing out the cities where they felt ‘unwelcome’ as tourists – from ‘rude’ locals and ‘unfriendly’…
The Sky This Week from October 2 to 9: Saturn at its best
Caption: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this stunning color view of Saturn and several of its smaller moons in…
Electrons slow to a crawl in a strange new quantum state
Over the past decade, scientists have made major progress in creating two-dimensional materials with unusual quantum properties that…
Viral video shows massive elk smash car window with brute force in Colorado
Another crazy nature video is going viral. As our loyal readers know, nature content is one of the…
Scientists have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our Solar System
Get the key facts about this news story in our 1-minute read Radio emissions: Researchers have captured direct…
Mysterious Antarctic region that could lift sea levels by several metres must be studied – researchers
A mysterious Antarctic region that holds enough ice to lift sea levels by several metres needs to be…
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
systems If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems, Google’s…
In 2010, just 66 Christmas Island blue-tailed skinks were saved; 15 years later, 545 were released on a new island | World News
Blue-tailed skinks from four separate populations were brought to Horsburgh Island (Image: Parks Australia) In 2010, the Christmas…
Underwater umbrellas for coral reefs could help protect against heat damage, study finds
image: A shaded coral photographed by Karen Neely. view more Credit: Karen Neely High sea temperatures driven by…
North Dunedin’s litter problem is more than an eyesore
Litter in North Dunedin is often discussed as an aesthetic nuisance: an eyesore that reflects poorly on the…