Astronomers Couldn’t Explain This Ancient Star’s Chemistry. A Lab Experiment Just Did.
Everything from the gold in your smart phone to the calcium in your bones was originally created in…
One of Earth’s Oldest Animal Fossils Found in a Norwegian Sheep Field
Sheep in a field in Finnmark, Norway. Credit: Yorick Veenma One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship – Spaceflight Now
SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy rocket stands at Pad 2 at Starbase prior to the Starship Flight 14 mission. Image:…
Paul McCartney joins over 500 public figures calling for an end to trophy hunting of lions, elephants and endangered rhinos | World News
Paul McCartney, PC: Wikipedia Paul McCartney is among hundreds of public figures backing a new international campaign calling…
Even the best telescopes have blind spots. This fix can help us build better maps of the universe
Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets…
New Haven turned a landfill that stopped accepting trash more than 20 years ago into a solar farm with over 1,900 panels, enough to generate the equivalent annual electricity use of about 200 homes while bringing the city $72,000 a year in rent
A landfill in New Haven, Connecticut, stopped accepting trash more than two decades ago, but its working life…
Jeff Bezos has given $26 million for satellites so advanced that they can spot a fire the size of two parking spaces from space, and they have sent their first images. Once fully live, FireSat will save forest land twice the size of Rhode Island from getting burned each year in the US
What if satellites could spot a wildfire when it was still little more than a patch of heat…
Scientists discover two new species of sea spiders along Canadian coastline : NPR
Tanystylum kiixin, a new species of sea spider, with round eggs inside its legs. Cormac Toler-Scott/The University of…
Tonga’s volcano looked small, but researchers say its collapse may have supercharged a tsunami
Size alone may be a poor guide to tsunami danger from an underwater volcano. A new study on…
International Whaling Commission to discuss continued threats to whales
Australians love watching whales from tourist boats that follow humpbacks off the east coast or spying on southern…
The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…
Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns | Food & drink industry
The vast majority of the UK’s essential foods, including cereals, potatoes, sugar and oil, are grown in areas…