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…
The hidden economy beneath our feet: Plants share energy through fungal networks
Beneath forests, grasslands and agricultural fields lies one of nature’s most complex communication and resource-distribution systems. Often described…
A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland
Petermann Glacier has shed a rare, Manhattan-sized Arctic ice island that researchers had watched develop for years. Credit:…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
Pastures Past: Kiwi family discovered on Northland farm in 1949
Kiwi chick progresses Young bird doubles its weight “Happy event” expected Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune, January 4, 1938 Since…
We may have finally cracked the explosive mystery behind Saturn’s rings
There are many mysteries about the planet Saturn and its entourage of moons. One, of course, is how…
Companies Are Bracing Themselves For El Niño’s Ripple Effects
In other words, the potential effects of El Niño over the coming year are both local and specific…
Researchers turned data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere, mapping a hard-to-observe region around 500 kilometres above the planet
Representative Image (AI-generated) A network of Starlink satellites designed primarily for internet connectivity is giving scientists a new…
Physics Wallah’s Full-Stack Bet: Looking Into The Revenue Engine
For a generation of Indian students preparing for competitive exams, “Hello bacchon…” became more than a classroom greeting.…
This Star Whips Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known Star
The universe is full of cool and interesting things, like black hole stars and nightmare planets that get…
In 2012, a man in Panama began collecting plastic discarded along streets and beaches: Years later, those bottles had become a village
The project collected waste from across the island, and Bezeau later expanded the effort by collecting discarded bottles…