Study: Raccoons Don’t Just Solve Puzzles for Food, They Do It for Fun
In a new study led by University of British Columbia Ph.D. student Hannah Griebling, raccoons (Procyon lotor) continued…
Nasa plans to have a permanent base on the Moon by 2030 – how it can be done
A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is…
Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: ‘pesticide industry wishlist’ | US news
The newly proposed, Republican-led farm bill includes a range of provisions opponents say constitute a “pesticide industry wishlist”…
Astronomers Just Found a Monster Cosmic Explosion in the Last Place They Expected
Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars.…
Finding Gold In A Stellar Explosion
Our first satellites were little more than repeater stations that propagated our radio and tv signals around the…
A “ghost” great white shark just reignited a Mediterranean mystery
On April 20, 2023, local fishermen accidentally caught a juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) off the coast…
Newly Discovered Comet Could Appear During the Day—If It’s Not Destroyed First
A recently discovered comet is plunging toward a fateful encounter with the Sun, which will determine whether it…
The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization
Oke, C. et al. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustain. 1, 11 (2021).…
Experts Mapped Out World War III in Space Day by Day, and What They Found Should Worry All of Us
Space is no longer just a scientific frontier or a playground for billionaires with rockets. It has quietly…
Simulation of a Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator with photonic quantum walks
Qi, X.-L. & Zhang, S.-C. Topological insulators and superconductors. Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 1057–1110 (2011). Article ADS Google…
Huge carnivores are roaming the streets of this Ethiopian city. What they’re doing could be saving people $100,000 USD per year
Climate change has an unlikely new ally. In Ethiopia, urban scavengers, such as hyenas and hooded vultures, are…
Shades of a lunar eclipse – FlowingData
There was a total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026. From Michala Garrison mapping for NASA Earth Observatory,…