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…
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…
Dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires moves into the Great Lakes and Northeast
By Meteorologist Dakota Smith, CNN Massive plumes of Canadian wildfire smoke have started to pour over the border…
Jupiter’s strange icy moon has a secret ocean, making it one of the best places to search for life in our Solar System
At first glance, Jupiter’s moon Europa might look less like a cradle for life and more like a…
Is dark matter ‘tuned in’ to a hidden dimension?
Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could…
How shark teeth and rose thorns solve the same problem
A new study has found that nature’s puncture tools – its fangs, stingers, spines and thorns – are…
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 monkey discovered with orange lips in Democratic Republic of Congo
A newly discovered species of monkey with striking orange lips has been found in the east-central Democratic Republic…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Rocket stages stacked and ready for liftoff today
2026-07-16T11:29:18.830Z Starship stacked, awaiting launch countdown SpaceX’s first Starship V3 vehicle launches on a test flight on May…
In the 1980s, Guam’s kingfisher vanished from the wild after invasive snakes devastated the island’s birds: The last 29 were rescued and four new chicks are now helping rebuild the species |
The Guam Kingfisher is known as the “sihek” in Chamorro, the native language of the Marianas Archipelago and…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
Targeted tropical forest restoration can offset deforestation-induced water flux losses
Mitchard, E. T. A. The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change. Nature 559, 527–534 (2018). Article CAS …