Lemur used in ‘lemur yoga’ session dies of human herpesvirus, study finds
Four lemurs that had close contact with people, including one via a “lemur yoga” class, caught a human…
Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can quell effects of solar storms, study suggests
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot…
Heatwave latest: Burnham sends army to battle South Wales wildfires after emergency alert sent to millions
Emergency wildfires alert causes chaos on live TVYour support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights…
WATCH: Bright Fireball Streaks Across Washington at 33,000 MPH
A bright fireball streaked across the Washington night sky early Aug. 14 at 12:48 a.m. PDT. First spotted…
Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878, today, the population of 11,000 is on the verge of eradicating the island’s forests
Newfoundland introduced moose for food in the region more than a century ago. Today, about 110,000 of their…
In April 2025, four private astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Fram2 became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit — a route that neither NASA, the Soviet Union nor any other government space programme had flown in the entire history of human spaceflight.
At 01:46 UTC on 1 April 2025, a Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon Resilience south from Florida with…
Hundreds of sea turtles are stranded in Cape Cod each year. An ‘amazing network’ has mobilized to help | US news
Sea turtle #471 gasped audibly, as veterinarian Kathy Tuxbury palpated the surgical scar on the animal’s left flipper.…
In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting
Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…
Meet Ryoya Sugimoto: The Japanese teenager who spotted strange jellyfish at a dock and helped scientists identify a species new to science
Representative Image of diverse jellyfish species drifting through Japanese coastal waters (AI-generated image) In 2018, 13-year-old Ryoya Sugimoto…
Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies…
Urban expansion and the collapse of tropical stream ecosystems
Ruddiman, W. F. The Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 45–68 (2013). Article Google Scholar Malhi, Y.…
NASA rover finds gemstone-like minerals on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found unexpected traces of chromium-bearing corundum, a mineral associated with gemstones, in rocks at…