Mayor says Nepal disaster should spur planning over Milford Sound tsunami risk
A new report from Emergency Management Southland highlights the risks of a landslide down the cliffs surrounding the…
Pluto’s atmosphere has probably persisted in some form for millions of years, but observations suggest its pressure fell 16% between mid-2021 and July 2023. With Pluto continuing away from the Sun until 2114, astronomers may be witnessing the beginning of its nitrogen sky slowly freezing onto the surface.
Pluto may be losing part of its sky to the ground beneath it. A 2026 study in The…
Delight as kākāpō population soars to 325
The 2026 kākāpō breeding season, the biggest on record, has come to an end with a bumper number…
Saturn’s rings look ancient, but data from the Cassini spacecraft suggests they are surprisingly young, likely no more than a few hundred million years old, meaning dinosaurs walked the Earth in a solar system where Saturn had no rings at all
Saturn’s rings look like they have always been there. Every photo of the solar system puts them front…
El Niño is stronger than at any point in the past 1,000 years, coral records reveal
El Niño variability in the eastern Pacific has increased by about 36.5% compared with the pre-industrial era, according…
Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
Two astronauts replaced a spacecraft docking aid and a video camera during a successful spacewalk outside of the…
A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot
Future quantum computers may depend on the ability to connect widely separated modules through distributed entanglement. Until now,…
The Heartwarming Story of How a Lion, a Tiger, and a Bear Defied Biology and Became Best Friends
Image credits: Noah’s Ark. Their amazing story first started in the dark. Before they became internet legends and…
Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation
The JWST examined ancient light from the Universe’s first galaxies and black holes and uncovered some puzzles. Galaxies…
Opinion: Every Glacier Is Different. Our Failure To Prepare Is Always The Same
We rebuilt the bridge. The river took it again. The Nepal-China Friendship Bridge across the Bhote Koshi was…
This tiny space mission wants to reach Alpha Centauri, in about 80,000 years
In brief: A small team of engineers and scientists have announced what they are describing as humanity’s first…
University of Botswana physicists answer to Einstein :: Mmegi Online
Dr Stuart Marongwe and Dr Moletlany iTshipa are both based in the University of Botswana’s Physics Department. Marongwe…