A “New” Penguin Species Has Been Discovered on One of Earth’s Most Remote Islands
Gentoo penguins. Credit: Claudia Ulloa Genetic research revealed four distinct gentoo penguin species, including a newly identified species…
Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic…
France records ‘hottest summer ever’ in 2026 | Climate News
France joins other European countries in recording its hottest summer since measurements began. Published On 3 Sep 20263…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Could Lose 2 Key Instruments at a Crucial Moment
An iconic NASA probe is currently around 6 billion miles (9.7 billion kilometers) away from Earth, returning data…
A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
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Black Swan Guards Injured Mate For Days On Highway Median As Countless Cars Pass By
As the founder of B.I.R.D.S., a volunteer animal rescue service based in Melbourne, Australia, Sonja Olsen is uniquely…
For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight through the reflector below.
Ángel Vázquez, the observatory’s director of telescope operations, was standing outside the control room on the morning of…
Scientists covered an Amazon rainforest plot with 6,000 panels to block half its rain; large trees died and biomass fell by a third |
Deep in the Caxiuanã National Forest in northern Brazil, a patch of rainforest the size of a football…
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
Let’s start with the number that makes the rest of the story hard to picture: 200 billion. That…
Physicists Spot Curious Signal in Hunt for Elusive Dark Matter Particles
Physicists using the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector deep underground in a former South Dakota gold mine say…
The Pacific Coast Where Sea Otters Have Come Back
A little over a century ago, the sea otter was all but gone. Because it wears the densest…
NASA Observatory Embarks On Mission To Probe Dark Universe
NASA Observatory Embarks On Mission To Probe Dark Universe | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Irene…