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…
Starship Passes Two Engine Tests Before Orbital Flight
When could Starship launch? Sources disagree on the timing. Tesla Oracle writes that, if the remaining tests go…
Yellow-eyed penguin crisis: How researchers are using live tracking to rescue dying chicks
Newly fledged yellow-eyed penguins are swimming thousands of kilometres north into depleted fishing grounds to starve. The mainland…
Researchers have documented mugger crocodiles and American alligators positioning sticks and twigs on or around their snouts during birds’ nesting season — apparently using the sought-after nesting material as bait to lure birds within striking distance.
A crocodile lies still in shallow water near a colony of nesting birds, most of its body underwater,…
Japan Earthquake Today: 5.9-Magnitude Quake Strikes Ibaraki, Strong Shaking Hits Tokyo, Weeks After Deadly Tremor
Tokyo and the eastern Kanto region were shaken at around 2 am Sunday by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
These National Geographic filmmakers spent four years following the journey of a single lion cub – I can’t wait to watch!
I’m a sucker for a good nature documentary, but National Geographic’s new series Lion – which premiered this…
‘Game changer’: Cancer center opens at Park City Hospital
PARK CITY — Jim Becker traveled two hours each way, at least, five days a week while receiving…
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability Why are some of the world’s largest coffee companies betting…
Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.
Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, Spain’s “wolf boy of Sierra Morena,” dies aged 80
He became known as “the wolf boy of Sierra Morena.” For most of his childhood, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja…