International Space Station Shares Details Of New Plants Sprouting In Space
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) achieved a major milestone recently. In an Instagram post, they revealed…
Sugar gliders not a major risk to swift parrots in Tasmania, new research finds
A new study has called into question the extent to which introduced sugar gliders prey on critically endangered…
It was as heavy as 10 elephants, as long as a jumbo jet – and even T. rex wouldn’t have dared attack it… This is the biggest land animal ever discovered
Millions of years ago, Earth was ruled by giants. Pterosaurs with 12m wingspans darkened the skies, dragonflies the…
Traffic, mobiles, music … let’s turn the volume down | Pollution
Your editorial is right that noise pollution deserves to be treated as a public-health issue rather than a…
APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia
Explanation: What’s happening to this cloud? Ice crystals in a distant cirrus cloud are acting like little floating…
A metal long thought nonmagnetic changes character when stretched
For years, ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂) has kept physicists confused. Depending on which experiment they looked at, the metallic…
Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States May See Aurora Sunday Night
NOAA forecasts G1 geomagnetic storm on Sunday, Aug. 2, thorugh Monday, Aug.3, with aurora possible on the northern…
Solar storm may hit Earth today
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has forecast geomagnetic storm conditions for August 2, following the expected arrival of…
Rare Gobi Desert fossil rewrites mammal evolution
A rabbit-shaped skeleton from Mongolia just settled an old argument about a group of extinct mammals. For decades,…
Daughter of British couple killed in Spanish wildfire rejects claim they ignored order to leave | Spain
The bereaved daughter of a British couple who died in a Spanish wildfire is calling on the foreign…
NASA Funds 18 Early-Stage Space Concepts, Three of Them Led By JPL – Pasadena Now
A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2026 NIAC awardees. [ NASA]Three of…
Living Underwater in 2026: New Ocean Habitat Just Dropped
A new subsea habitat for humans just dropped (literally), all the way to the ocean floor. The habitat…