Sydney CBD solar farm to cut carbon emissions by 2,000 tonnes a year
A solar farm heralded as the largest in any central business district (CBD) in the Southern Hemisphere is…
US boosts its on-orbit threat inspection capability with new test
The United States has taken a significant step toward developing faster and more responsive capabilities for monitoring activity…
Scientists covered bat drinking pools with clear plastic; 11 bat species tried to drink from the fake water |
A thirsty bat sweeps over a pond, listens to the echoes returning from its surface and drops closer…
JADES-GS-z14-0, a galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, already contained oxygen less than 300 million years after the Big Bang — a finding confirmed by ALMA, suggesting generations of massive stars had already been born, lived and died, scattering newly forged elements into space billions of years before our Sun existed.
JADES-GS-z14-0 already contained oxygen when the universe was less than 300 million years old. Two teams reported the…
Starwatch: Waning crescent moon gets close to brilliant beacon of Jupiter | Astronomy
Those already out and about at 5am this week will be rewarded with a beautiful waning crescent moon…
Man throws dead fish at leopard seal’s face on Petone Beach
Leopard seal washes ashore on Petone Beach Footage of a man throwing a dead fish at a three-metre…
Albatrosses reveal how a volatile environment reshapes the pace of life
Decades of tracking two albatross colonies showed that unpredictable conditions push birds toward slower reproductive strategies. Reproduction can…
A Bright Spot at Mount Michael
Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many…
Meet Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo, the Australian ecologist who found an ancient ‘vegan Dracula’ fish 900 miles beyond its known range |
Australian brook lamprey. Image Credit: David Moffatt In 2022, Australian ecologist Dr Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo set out to study…
Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion years.
The Milky Way’s expected collision with Andromeda became considerably less certain in June 2025. In a Nature Astronomy…
On renewable energy, it’s time to debunk the ‘transition minerals’ narrative (commentary)
The world needs to move from fossil fuels to renewable ones, but the narrative pushed by powerful…
Pixxel funding: Satellite imaging startup Pixxel bags $100 million from Temasek, others
Satellite imaging startup Pixxel raised $100 million (around Rs 945 crore) in the largest funding round in India’s…