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Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human hearing, and researchers have shown other elephants can not only feel these signals through their feet but tell a familiar caller from a stranger

July 15, 2026

Elephants make deep rumbles that sit mostly below the range of human hearing. Those same low-frequency calls do…

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See-through ringed planet. Credit: Krit of Studio OMG

July 15, 2026

If you’re a space and astronomy fan, chances are you’re already clued-up on dark matter. This strange, invisible…

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July 15, 2026

By Benoit Tessier, Reuters A wildfire tore through a historic forest near Paris on Monday, forcing highway closures…

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$Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter$

July 15, 2026

From a distance, Europa looks like a frozen world. Its surface is a pale shell crossed by rust-coloured…

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Japan officials hunt bear that raided couple’s fridge amid string of break-ins | Japan

July 15, 2026

Authorities are searching for a bear that sneaked into the home of an elderly couple and raided their…

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Kamoʻoalewa, also known as 2016 HO3, a small near-Earth asteroid and quasi-satellite of Earth, now the target of China's Tianwen-2 sample return mission (Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech)

July 15, 2026

What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometres from…

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Could We Mitigate Super El Niños by Artificially Changing the Climate? A New Study Indicates Yes

July 15, 2026

Researchers used computer models to see what would have happened had scientists caused marine cloud brightening in the…

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July 15, 2026

By Ashlee Aldridge and Goulburn Murray For six weeks, the sun did not rise above the horizon at…

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Heavy traffic turns flower-rich road verges into bumblebee traps, and in southern Sweden, scientists found dead bees outnumbered live ones at about 4,000 vehicles a day | World News

July 15, 2026

Bumblebees rely on nectar-rich wildflowers for food, yet new research suggests that flowers growing beside heavily trafficked roads…

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Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and watched by an estimated 500 million people — making it the most widely watched series in American public television history until Ken Burns's The Civil War (1990)

July 15, 2026

In 1980, a science documentary hosted by an astronomer became the most watched series in the history of…

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Coalition and One Nation’s plan to ditch net zero would not lower power prices, CSIRO report finds | Energy

July 15, 2026

Claims by the Coalition and One Nation that abandoning a net zero climate target would bring down power…

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The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day

July 15, 2026

Credit: FCC/Reflect Orbital The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an…

Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human hearing, and researchers have shown other elephants can not only feel these signals through their feet but tell a familiar caller from a stranger

A large amount of the Universe is missing. Scientists think they may have found it

Wildfire rages near Paris as heatwave scorches Europe

Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter

Japan officials hunt bear that raided couple’s fridge amid string of break-ins | Japan

After a Billion Kilometres, China’s Asteroid Hunter Finally Arrives

Could We Mitigate Super El Niños by Artificially Changing the Climate? A New Study Indicates Yes

Life at Davis Station: 24 minutes of sun after six weeks of darkness

Heavy traffic turns flower-rich road verges into bumblebee traps, and in southern Sweden, scientists found dead bees outnumbered live ones at about 4,000 vehicles a day | World News

Carl Sagan’s 1980 PBS series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and watched by an estimated 500 million people — making it the most widely watched series in American public television history until Ken Burns’s The Civil War (1990)

Coalition and One Nation’s plan to ditch net zero would not lower power prices, CSIRO report finds | Energy

The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day