White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
These National Geographic filmmakers spent four years following the journey of a single lion cub – I can’t wait to watch!
I’m a sucker for a good nature documentary, but National Geographic’s new series Lion – which premiered this…
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability Why are some of the world’s largest coffee companies betting…
Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.
Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, Spain’s “wolf boy of Sierra Morena,” dies aged 80
He became known as “the wolf boy of Sierra Morena.” For most of his childhood, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja…
The hidden economy beneath our feet: Plants share energy through fungal networks
Beneath forests, grasslands and agricultural fields lies one of nature’s most complex communication and resource-distribution systems. Often described…
A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland
Petermann Glacier has shed a rare, Manhattan-sized Arctic ice island that researchers had watched develop for years. Credit:…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
Pastures Past: Kiwi family discovered on Northland farm in 1949
Kiwi chick progresses Young bird doubles its weight “Happy event” expected Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune, January 4, 1938 Since…
We may have finally cracked the explosive mystery behind Saturn’s rings
There are many mysteries about the planet Saturn and its entourage of moons. One, of course, is how…
Companies Are Bracing Themselves For El Niño’s Ripple Effects
In other words, the potential effects of El Niño over the coming year are both local and specific…