The humble balloon has an environmental problem — these scientists think they have a fix
LONDON, Aug 24 — A global symbol of parties and celebrations but an environmental headache, the humble balloon…
Starwatch: Lunar eclipse to reward early risers in UK and Europe | The moon
The early hours of Friday 28 August will reward very early risers in the UK, Europe and Africa…
After months of tracking, volunteers found five leopard cats breeding in Changi’s forest, but Terminal 5 construction is forcing them to relocate |
For months, the forest around Changi was being watched after dark. More than 50 volunteers, working with conservation…
How, when and why to use agentic AI in our neuroscience labs
It dawned on me in early March this year, on the Caribbean island of Barbados, of all places.…
‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself | Biodiversity
Tucked away on a country lane, a small field bursts with yellow and pink flowers. Quail and whitethroats…
A round-trip Mars mission could last roughly three years, and a model based on bone-density data from 69 astronauts predicted that everyone following the longer mission profile would return with osteopenia, while roughly one-third could be at risk of osteoporosis.
No astronaut has returned from Mars with osteopenia. No human being has travelled to Mars at all. The…
‘Very distressing’: Bird flu spreads to mammals in Australia
Bird flu has likely spread to a second seal, one day after the first mammal in Australia was…
Antarctic bacteria share ‘life-support’ genes to survive extreme conditions
Antarctica is one of the driest, coldest places on Earth. Very little life survives its extremes. In the…
‘Exceptional’ summer heatwaves in Europe hurting economies
Across Europe, extreme weather is drying up rivers. From the Rhine to the Danube to the Po, critical…
A gas giant 520 light-years away has equatorial atmospheric motion approaching 33,000 kilometres per hour—around 16 times Neptune’s fastest winds. When announced in January 2025, it was the fastest planetary jet stream yet measured, although an even faster one was reported on another exoplanet just a month later.
For 28 days in early 2025, WASP-127b held one of planetary science’s most striking records. Atmospheric material around…
Koala run over by e-bike in Brisbane
A koala has had a lucky escape after being run over by an e-bike on the side of…
Engineers sent robotic “sensor fish” through a Columbia River dam, then subjected 5,767 young salmon to the same pressure drop — revealing that turbine blades are rarely what kill them; their swim bladders expand so violently that organs rupture and gas bubbles lodge in their gills
Every spring, millions of young salmon ride the Columbia and Snake rivers toward the Pacific, and on the…