Hughenden residents relying on bottled water as Queensland’s water infrastructure reaches a crisis point
In Queensland more than half of the state’s water infrastructure is beyond its service life, but in the…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from the direction of Sagittarius with the highest incoming speed of any known interstellar visitor, accelerated to nearly 250,000 kilometres per hour near the Sun, and is now escaping on a hyperbolic trajectory that will never bring it back.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is doing something no ordinary long-period comet does. It is leaving the Solar System without…
Dark matter: Flash of light gives scientists burst of inspiration
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Ancient English supervolcano blasted ash across northern Europe 454 million years ago
A buried volcanic complex beneath eastern England may be the long-sought source of the enormous Kinnekulle ash layer…
Water leak found near Seddon after 3000 cubic metres lost
The leak in a Marlborough water main has been identified after about 3000 cubic metres of water was…
Every galaxy in our neighborhood, including our own, is being pulled toward a single point in space hidden directly behind the crowded disk of the Milky Way, and when astronomers finally looked through the dust, they found a large, previously hidden cluster of thousands of galaxies sitting almost exactly where the pull was coming from
In 1986, a small team of astronomers noticed something that did not add up. They were measuring how…
Meissner Raises $2.6 Million to Search For New Superconducting Materials
Insider Brief Meissner raised $2.6 million in pre-seed financing to develop superconducting materials for quantum computing, fusion energy…
A black monkey with a pinkish-orange patch around its mouth was photographed in a Congo forest canopy in 2008, detected 114 times between 2018 and 2022, and only then named Colobus congoensis — by its describers’ count, the fifth African monkey species new to science in 75 years
The Mituku communities along the eastern edge of the range call it kasaba nkoni, the branch shaker. Across…
Guest post: Why tough methane cuts are crucial for keeping warming ‘well-below’ 2C
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide (CO2). Methane…
All 16 New Russian Starlink-Rival Satellites Short of Target Orbit
An entire batch of Russian low Earth orbit satellites, intended to help create Moscow’s version of Starlink, has failed…
LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter
For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible…
White-tailed eagle spotted soaring over Peterborough park
Aylin posted photographs of the eagle on her wildlife site on Facebook – Peterborough Walks, external – and…