Trump administration removes power plant pollution limits
The Trump administration has finalized the repeal of regulations that limit the amount of planet-heating pollution coal and…
Hubble found a narrow ribbon of stars apparently stripped from a globular cluster in a galaxy 115 million light-years away—the first evidence of such a stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to map dark matter in distant galaxies.
A narrow ribbon beside an ultra-diffuse galaxy has become the strongest evidence yet for a globular cluster stellar…
CERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit Earth
Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…
Saudi Arabia released 313 desert gazelles; 20 years later, both species had established in a vast protected desert | World News
Across one of Saudi Arabia’s largest protected desert landscapes, a conservation experiment that began in the 1990s is…
Spanish Scientists Find 1st Evidence of Diplodocus Dinosaur in Europe
Reading for pleasure is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, according…
US repeals rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions by power plants | Environment News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is repealing rules limiting emissions by coal and gas power plants,…
Purple Haze Aurora – NASA Science
One of the inspirations for Jimi Hendrix’s iconic 1967 hit “Purple Haze” is said to be the sci-fi…
A Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt project combining acoustics, MEG and fMRI found that humans can actually hear sounds below the assumed 16-hertz lower limit of audibility, and that the auditory cortex lights up in response to infrasound the ear was long thought to ignore entirely
Human hearing does not end at a hard wall marked 16 or 20 hertz. Sensitivity falls sharply as…
Drama on the trail cam – this is Somerset’s version of the snow leopard | Animals
Deep into the night, and out of our sight, tiny claws rake over plastic. The animal skitters halfway…
New 3D structure reveals how cancer-linked BRD4 protein binds to chromosomes
A new 3D-structure of a cancer-linked protein bound to its cellular partner reveals details of how the protein…
NSW’s renewable energy rollout is running almost $1b under budget
In 2020, the NSW Coalition government outlined a plan for a once-in-a-generation undertaking. To power Australia’s most populous…
ALMA is Watching a Massive Binary Star System Form
Most stars in the Milky Way are binary stars. Binary relationships shape the futures of the stars in…