Highest heat alert for all major cities in Italy
Italy is placing all its 27 major cities under its highest heat alert on Thursday, as the country’s…
Mars is back! The Red Planet returns to the morning sky this month. Here’s how to see it
Mars is a morning planet in August 2026, slowly pulling away from the Sun to become a favourable…
Welcome to the Precision Era: Why Quantum Is the Next Great Technological Revolution
At this year’s Global Quantum Forum in Chicago, I had the opportunity to share why I believe quantum…
Kazakhstan’s Caspian tiger was declared extinct due to hunting by the military and prey reduction, now the country has released its first tiger in the wild after 70 years
Kazakhstan has released adult Amur tigers into the wild after a 70-year absence. This reintroduction follows extensive habitat…
A colossal magma system has been hiding beneath Tuscany
Scientists have discovered an enormous body of magma deep beneath Tuscany, even though the region shows few of…
Lisa Fryett: British mother dies weeks after being trapped in raging Spanish wildfires
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
SpaceX rocket expected to have crashed into Moon – live updates
The Moon’s growing junkyard – and the threat it could pose to future missionspublished at 08:33 BST 08:33…
Ask me anything: Kristian Dominek Barajas – ‘I’m able to take a really complicated problem and give it my best guess’ – Physics World
Ask me anything: Kristian Dominek Barajas – ‘I’m able to take a really complicated problem and give it…
Brazil’s Snake Island is home to just two snake species, including one of the world’s most venomous pit vipers | World News
Image: Left/Golden lancehead (Bothrops insularis)/Right/Dipsas albifrons (Sauvage’s snail-eating snake)/AI Generated About 33 kilometres off the coast of São…
A 2025 study tested whether impacts could keep Titan’s methane skies alive and found that a 20-kilometre object released up to 1% of the atmosphere’s methane directly, while even favourable impact histories extended its lifetime by no more than 3%, leaving the source of its rivers and rain unresolved
Titan’s clouds, rain, rivers and seas all depend on methane. Yet the same distant sunlight that powers this…
Africans bear the brunt of biodiversity loss
But the world spends 30 times more money destroying nature than protecting it, and Africa often lacks the…
Nasa’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess
a new visualisation of Earth looks nothing like the Blue Marble seen from space. Nasa has released a…