Largest-ever fruit fly brain map could reveal how brains turn senses into actions
Scientists have created the largest complete map of a fruit fly brain, a major neuroscience milestone that could…
Kabardino-Balkaria Avalanche Deathtoll Climbs to 13 as Rescue Efforts Continue
At least 13 people are now confirmed to have died after an avalanche struck a group of climbers in…
Mercury may have shrunk by seven miles since it formed
Scientists found that Mercury’s roughest terrain may conceal ancient cliffs, suggesting the planet shrank substantially more than estimates…
Inside the mission to save orangutans from raging fires
A team of wildlife workers from YIARI in Indonesia rescue an orangutan and its baby in Kalimantan. (ABC News:…
Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector – And Strange Signals Kept Turning Up : ScienceAlert
Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally – they turned Earth itself into a giant…
Protect Your Patio From Mosquitoes With An Affordable Find From Amazon
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SpaceX needs Starship to deliver on Earth before reaching Mars
SpaceX is entering a critical phase for Starship as it weighs the rocket’s near-term role as a revenue…
Reintroducing kiwi to Wellington has been a wild, stoat-busting success
Veronika Meduna Science & environment writer·New Zealand Listener· 12 Sep, 2026 07:04 PM4 mins to read Subscribe…
Tiny sound waves could help solve a major quantum computing problem
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new…
In 1980, a Texaco crew drilling over Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur missed their mapped position by about 400 feet and punched into a working salt mine below, and within hours the entire lake had drained into the hole, swallowing 11 barges and briefly reversing a canal that ran to the Gulf
Lake Peigneur, in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana, was a modest body of water with an unusual…
On-chip space–time wave packet laser array
Weiner, A. M. Ultrafast optical pulse shaping: a tutorial review. Opt. Commun. 284, 3669–3692 (2011). Article ADS Google…
Scientists played human shouts, wolf and cougar calls near British Columbia crop fields; deer fled 64% of the time from human voices, but quickly learned to ignore the deterrents
What scares a deer away from a crop field, a wolf howl, a cougar call or the sound…