Pet cat impact on wildlife could be overstated, UQ researchers say
A new study has found pet cats were responsible for fewer than 1 per cent of native animals…
Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works
Earth appears to have a natural climate control system that has helped keep the planet habitable for more…
Four first-time astronauts with only four hours of training took the first diagnostic X-rays ever captured on human beings in orbit, and radiologists on the ground judged the images clinically usable enough to catch a fracture a quarter-million miles from the nearest hospital
The first X-ray ever taken of a human body, in 1895, was of Wilhelm Röntgen’s wife’s hand, wedding…
During Tanzania’s deadly 1993 drought, an elephant matriarch’s memory helped save her entire herd, while a younger leader stayed behind and more calves died | World News
During a brutal drought in Tanzania back in 1993, one elephant’s memory ended up making the difference between…
A laser disappears into the Milky Way’s heart photo of the day for July 16, 2026
The Gemini South Observatory shoots out a beam of light. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek) A laser…
Smoke from Canadian wildfires moves into US, impacting air quality
Massive plumes of Canadian wildfire smoke have started to pour over the border into the United States, bringing…
Saturn’s moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
The Huygens probe drifted under a parachute through an orange haze on January 14, 2005, and set down…
Why some primates have even tougher births than humans
Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates. And it’s true that…
New Horizons mission wakens to explore solar system fringes
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
New Zealand on tsunami alert after 5.9-magnitude earthquake
New Zealand authorities on Thursday lifted the tsunami warning issued after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the west…
Pluto’s moon Charon may have once spun once every 14 hours, and its ancient mountains still record how it slowed down |
For decades, Charon was often viewed as the quieter half of the Pluto system, a frozen world marked…
Honey bee larvae can’t smell – and that’s actually a good thing
A honey bee larva does almost nothing for itself. It lies curled inside a six-sided wax cell while…