Toronto zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia | Toronto
The Toronto Zoo has announced the birth of a female pygmy hippo calf. Kindia, the zoo’s 20-year-old pygmy…
China’s 2035 moon base could see robot dogs patrol, build and explore
In anticipation of its International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), China intends to usher in the new era of…
What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force
In a historic breakthrough, a Chinese-led international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the glueball –…
Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, but most of the distance from its centre to…
East Africa’s iconic snow peaks will soon disappear for good – what will be lost when they melt
East Africa’s shrinking mountain glaciers on three peaks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will soon be no more.…
‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data | Solar eclipses
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik…
Forget Lasers—Researchers Just Created Quantum Entanglement Using Sunlight
Lasers are no longer required to produce quantum entanglement, physicists say, after achieving the state using sunlight. In…
Blue whales can weigh 330,000 pounds, eat six tons of krill a day and communicate through powerful underwater songs |
The blue whale is not merely the biggest animal alive today. At roughly 33 metres in length, it…
Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling
Voyager 1’s power test came back at the end of July, and by Kareem Badaruddin’s own account it…
Tuvalu asked China to look for missile it fired on ocean floor
Despite the missile splashing down close to Tuvalu, he said the country had no warning from China, unlike…
On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic…
Indian professor wins eminent Dirac Medal, joining Hawking and other physics giants
Deepak Dhar, an IINSA distinguished professor and one of India’s most respected theoretical physicists, has been awarded the…