NASA’s Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish from the surface of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured a remarkable celestial sight: Earth briefly vanishing behind Phobos in the evening…
NZ wants a high-tech future. Its proposed physics curriculum may make that harder
New Zealand is placing big bets on science and technology, with plans to boost high-tech research funding by…
More Sharks Off New York’s Beaches, and Scientists Say That’s Good News
How Cats Handle Rising Temperatures Unlike humans, cats have limited ways to cool themselves down. Their sweat glands…
One faulty gene copy can make the heart’s DNA fold the wrong way
Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting about 1 in 100 babies born each year.…
Safe havens protect Australian mammals from invasive predators. Why aren’t they working for other animal groups?
Feral cats and foxes now roam across almost all of Australia. These predators are a major reason why…
On this day in space! Aug. 13, 2014: Game-changing WorldView-3 Earth-observing satellite launches to orbit
On Aug. 13, 2014, a company called DigitalGlobe launched what was then the sharpest-eyed satellite of all time.…
In 2025, scientists made sound behave like a rainbow, separating different frequencies and sending them in different directions
A rainbow of light forms because different wavelengths travel through a prism or water droplets at different angles.…
Brain scans reveal language-specific network of neurons even during nonlinguistic tasks
The language network in your brain can be seen, even if you aren’t saying a word. For a…
Australian family bought a remote island to run a sheep farm, now they are turning it into a $4.8 million conservation sanctuary for endangered wildlife
An Australian family who once built their life around sheep farming on a remote island are now helping…
UAE’s Altair-1 AI Earth Observation Satellite Heads to US for October Launch, Boosting Space and Environmental Monitoring Ambitions
Special handling from Dubai to Los Angeles A dedicated Emirates SkyCargo team managed the satellite’s transport from end…
Guest Post — Quantum Strategy Demands a New Operating Model: From Uncertainty to Readiness.
Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves. In boardrooms around the world, a…
During the total solar eclipse of July 8, 1842, an astronomer watched the ground itself start to ripple — thin bands of light chasing each other across open earth in the last seconds before the sky went fully dark, and 184 years later, nobody has proven why
During the total solar eclipse of 8 July 1842, observers across Europe recorded a strange effect in the…