Kenya crews race to rescue giraffe cow and calf from electric fence, but the mother didn’t make it
A giraffe calf in Kenya survived an ordeal that killed its mother and has another shot at life.…
Fleeting interactions between membrane sugar chains control cell division
Acting as an armor, a scaffold, and a communication platform in one, our cells’ plasma membrane lies at…
China taps high-altitude winds for power generation by flying craft to 4,000m
China has flown an airborne wind energy system to 4,000 metres (13,123 feet) above sea level and generated…
On this day in space! Aug. 27, 1962: NASA launches Mariner 2 to Venus for ambitious flyby
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world’s first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet. Mariner…
NSF Awards $37.5M to CU Boulder-Led Quantum Research Institute
Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation is providing $37.5 million to renew the CU Boulder-led NSF Q-SEnSE…
Suspected bird flu infection in fox sparks fears of ‘long-distance’ spread
South Australian authorities say they have five new suspected cases of bird flu in the state, including a…
Glowing galaxy with anomalous extra arms photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2026
An image of this spiral galaxy NGC 4258 that combines X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory (seen…
A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
This long, hot summer has brought our third drought in five years and the driest July in almost…
Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches 32 Amazon internet satellites to orbit
Flight VA270 | MTG-I2 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace – YouTube Watch On Europe’s most powerful rocket will…
Electric-field control of coherent ferron oscillations
Tang, P. et al. Excitations of the ferroelectric order. Phys. Rev. B 106, L081105 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L081105 (2022). Bauer, G.…
In 1920, Arizona introduced bullfrogs as a game species and food source; a century later, the invasive frogs are threatening the Northern Mexican gartersnake |
A pond in southern Arizona can look quiet from a distance. Beneath the surface, though, the balance between…
Space Weather Losses to Double by 2035, Report Finds
Space weather forecasters have good news and bad news, and it’s the exact same: it’s going to be…