APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in…
Australia’s first bird flu case in a mammal confirmed in South Australia
Australia’s first case of bird flu in a mammal has been confirmed, after testing of a long-nosed fur…
Scientists Discover a Bizarre New Way Life Can Make DNA… Without DNA : ScienceAlert
To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use…
Leftover coffee grounds could help curb ants without traps, bait, or chemicals
If ants keep showing up around your home, a morning cup of coffee could already have a surprisingly…
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most…
In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt sent New Zealand 20 elk for sport, and their hybrid descendants are still at the centre of a conservation debate
A small group of American wapiti, known in the United States as elk, was sent to New Zealand…
Astronomers Detect a Record-Breaking “Cosmic Laser” From 8 Billion Light-Years Away
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting…
There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized : ScienceAlert
Hidden inside tree trunks, between grains of soil, deep within our bodies, and below our feet, fungi seem…
Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet
In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
Phoenix is flying again | Coeur d’Alene Press
SANDPOINT — After an eagle attack, a young osprey has risen like the mythical bird for which he…
Europe’s Next-Gen Rocket Concept Could Be Way More Efficient Than SpaceX’s Starship
Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) published a paper in May 2025 proposing a…
As super El Nino looms, wealthy nations must learn from those already living with water scarcity
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…