Animals have been eating nature’s original bioplastic for millions of years
Microorganisms developed biodegradable plastics long before humans began making them. Many bacteria and archaea naturally produce compounds known…
Six-minute ‘eclipse of the century’ is coming to the Valley of the Kings
Often described as the world’s greatest open-air museum, Luxor, in southern Egypt, has basked in the glow of…
CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei
The ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin…
By 1969 or earlier, Japan had introduced peacocks to its southern islands as pets and zoo attractions, and escaped birds later preyed on native lizards and butterflies | World News
Indian peafowl at Domaine de Pescheray in Sarthe, France. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Long before raccoons or bluegill…
Georgios Kritikos died of decompression sickness during the ten-month salvage of the Antikythera wreck and two of his crewmates were left paralysed, and the site they were dragged off has spent the century since giving up marble heads, human teeth and a skeleton to divers who keep going back
The Greek government’s salvage of the Antikythera wreck ran for roughly ten months across 1900 and 1901, and…
Are zoos ready for the changing climate?
When people think about climate change and animals, they might picture melting sea ice, drought-stricken landscapes or species…
It’s official – Earth’s spin is slowing down. Here’s what it means for the future of our planet
If modern life makes you feel as though the days are dragging on, science can offer you a…
Rare family of Delacour’s langurs photographed in Vietnam as conservation efforts protect one of the world’s most endangered monkeys |
A rare glimpse of family life among one of Vietnam’s most endangered monkeys has emerged from the limestone…
Research disruptiveness is falling, insists author of landmark paper
Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News Author of 2023 Nature paper says analysis and conclusions hold despite…
Canada’s Most Powerful Icebreaker Reaches North Pole
Canada’s largest and most powerful icebreaker has reached the North Pole as part of a multi-year effort to…
NASA tests first-of-its-kind spacecraft that navigates without GPS
NASA’s Starling mission has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind navigation system that lets a spacecraft determine its position in orbit…
In 1905, Hawaii introduced mosquitofish to control mosquitoes; the tiny fish later became linked to declines of native damselflies and other threatened species
Hawaii introduced mosquitofish to control mosquitoes Introduced to Hawaii in 1905 to control disease-carrying mosquitoes, the eastern mosquitofish…