Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How
Some laws of physics are so fundamental that they’ve served as the baseline for science for centuries. But…
Droughts were predicted decades ago – yet water companies did nothing | Drought
In 1998, I travelled to London for the release of the Meteorological Office’s first forecasts of the impact…
Percy Sees An ‘Eclipse’ of Earth, From Mars
*The Perseverance rover catches the Martian moon Phobos covering up the Earth. * Sure. It may not look…
Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test
Insider Brief Three recent experiments show how quantum technology could protect ballot secrecy and help verify election integrity,…
Shark spotted off Scarborough Beach 🦈 – YouTube
Shark spotted off Scarborough Beach 🦈 YouTubeGreat white shark pulls lifeguard underwater at popular family beach destination on the…
A zircon crystal small enough to sit on a fingertip, found in the Jack Hills of Western Australia, has been dated to 4.404 billion years old, right around the same moment a 2025 study says the Moon itself finished crystallizing
In the Jack Hills of Western Australia, a grain of zircon small enough to sit on a fingertip…
Despite the drought, don’t give up on our native plants | Plants
Richard Eltringham (Letters, 5 August) argues that climate change necessitates switching to a planting palette of drought-tolerant non-native…
Your Guide to August 2026 Eclipse Season
star material Breaking down all the tools you need to use the universe to unpack your desires, fears,…
Jackie, the famous California bald eagle, dies after weeks of intensive care – BBC
Jackie, the famous California bald eagle, dies after weeks of intensive care BBCBig Bear’s famous bald eagle Jackie has…
Despite topping the OECD for tertiary-educated 25 to 34 year olds, South Korea also has a third of its working-age adults scoring at the lowest levels of literacy — and the gap reflects both generations and ageing
South Korea leads the developed world on one measure of education and lags on another, and both facts…
Brazil lost the Spix’s macaw from the wild for more than 20 years, then conservationists released captive-bred birds back into the Caatinga | World News
Image(s): Left/An 1878 painting of an adult by Joseph Smit/Right/Wikipedia For more than two decades, the Spix’s macaw…
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)
SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket…