US Air Force flight to Antarctica turns back after space activity warning
A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous”…
Australian couple bought a cattle farm and planted 34,000 trees to restore rainforest for koalas and other wildlife | World News
Image: The Daily Telegraph An Australian couple who bought a former cattle property in New South Wales are…
NASA’s Return to the Moon and Transformation at Scale | SAP NOW
At NASA, a moonshot is not a metaphor. It is an operating model. Returning humans to the Moon—and…
Nature invented biodegradable plastic millions of years ago and animals have been eating it ever since; scientists now think it could offer a clue to Earth’s plastic crisis
The study began with an unusual marine worm, Olavius algarvensis. The little animal has neither a mouth nor…
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky ‘mega-Earth’ 23 times more massive than our planet
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form. Called…
Fast radio bursts reveal that the universe’s ‘missing matter’ is found far from galaxies – Physics World
Fast radio bursts reveal that the universe’s ‘missing matter’ is found far from galaxies – Physics World Skip…
A polar bear destroyed almost an entire seabird colony in Alaska; scientists say changing food habits may explain why | World News
Female polar bear near Kaktovik, Barter Island, Alaska. Image Credit: Alan Wilson/Wikipedia A single polar bear destroyed 89%…
Multi-responsive foldamer gel platform opens new route to controlled drug delivery
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a responsive material that could offer a new approach to…
In the 1950s, Japan imported American turtles as pets and released adults, which later spread through waterways and may have competed with native turtles | World News
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas), Hawai’i, USA. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons In the postwar decades, a small turtle native…
Closest black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1, 1,600 lightyears
The closest black hole to Earth is a stellar mass black hole just 1,600 lightyears away called Gaia…
CERN, where scientists smash particles at nearly the speed of light, has a 2-metre Shiva Nataraja statue outside; why India gifted the cosmic dancer to the physics lab in 2004
Lord Shiva Statue Unveiled (CERN official) For those who don’t know, CERN is Conseil Européen pour la Recherche…
In 1994, a Cheetah scientist began giving African farmers guard dogs; livestock losses fell by as much as 80–100%, reducing pressure to kill predators | World News
The representation shows a livestock-guarding dog protecting a herd of sheep and goats on a Namibian farm, illustrating…