US Space Force Payload Lifts Off on Japanese Satellite
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Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America
Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…
Scientists Melted Diamond at Temperatures Hotter Than the Sun. It Behaved Very Strangely
New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes…
Climate change is undermining coral reef restoration. Could picnic coolers help?
PALAU, Micronesia — The ride out to sea was, in a word, unpleasant. The coastal waters of Palau,…
SpaceX Closes In on $150 as 2 Rockets Launch Back-to-Back
Quick Read SpaceX (SPCX) crushed Q2 estimates by 15%, delivering $7.8B in revenue on 92% year-over-year growth as…
Shark selfies: why ‘finfluencers’ need to put their cameras away | Sharks
Name: Shark selfies. Age: The phrase seems to have emerged in summer 2014 and will hopefully be retired…
On 2 July 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured Earth disappearing behind Phobos from the surface of Mars — the first time in history a camera on another planet has watched our world vanish behind another object.
From the western rim of Jezero Crater, Earth was not a blue world on 2 July 2026. It…
China’s Renewables Boom Faces Record Clean Power Curtailments
Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind…
JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today’s moons may be rubble from Neptune’s original satellite system, destroyed when the captured moon Triton tore through it billions of years ago.
The clay is the clue. Larissa and Galatea are two small, dark moons tucked close to Neptune, where…
In the 1980s, ferrets were released on Northern Ireland’s Rathlin Island to control rabbits; decades later, they threatened seabirds at a colony of more than 250,000 birds
Ferrets were released on Rathlin Island in the mid-1980s, off the north coast of Northern Ireland, to deal…
Astronaut Snaps Photo of a Super Typhoon With His Phone
While our camera rolls are filled with everyday moments here on Earth, astronauts are now filling theirs with…
UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans | Drought
The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to…