Astronomers fix a key error in measuring the Sun’s silver
Researchers have recalculated how much silver the Sun holds, and the answer is about 55 percent higher than…
Scientists recorded more than 50 days of deep-ocean footage before a goblin shark appeared for just over 20 seconds near the Tonga Trench, one of the first two confirmed sightings of this 125-million-year lineage alive in its natural habitat
For more than 50 days, cameras watched the deep Pacific. Then, at 1,997 metres on the slope of…
Chile: A rural Chile community struggling with drought restored its water supply by protecting a watershed, planting native trees and rebuilding the soil that holds rain
Rural community on Chile’s Chiloé Island restores its water supply. (Picture: Chile’s Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity) A…
Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry but no detectable biology would suggest that the ingredients for life are far easier to assemble than life itself
Most missions searching for extraterrestrial life are imagined as quests for a positive result: a cell, a biological…
India: Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack
CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman…
Scientists Listened to Moss for a Week and Found Strange Electrical Pulses Moving Through It
Credit: Pexels Moss is alive but doesn’t look like much. It has no nerves, no brain, and no…
Hybrid Hydropower Could Unlock Europe’s Next Renewable Energy Boom
There is major potential to develop hybrid renewable energy projects on existing hydropower sites, according to a new…
Anthropic, SpaceX Hand Google Profit Windfall
At least on paper, for now, Google’s investments inAnthropic and SpaceX have paid off and enabled its parent…
They sound like spaceships! Polar researchers capture otherworldly footage of seal mum and pup beneath the ice
Researchers have shared adorable footage of mother Weddell seals teaching their babies to swim in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound. Adult Weddell seals,…
Scientists Bought Centuries-Old Musket Balls on eBay and Turned Them into Cutting-Edge Solar Panels
Perovskite solar cell. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering…
Engineers watching bats near a solar plant in England realized the panels were tricking them into thinking they were water and changing their behavior
Picture a field of solar panels in the English countryside at dusk. The last light fades, and small…
The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
Galaxies surrounded by reservoirs of cold gas draw that gas into themselves and convert it into new stars.…