1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup | Plastics
More than 1.3m plastic bottles were collected from beaches, rivers and waterways last year during the world’s largest…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot…
Videos capture humpback whales stopping to snack as they migrate along Australia’s coast
The southern humpback whale migration is in full swing. Tens of thousands of whales are now making their…
New platform enables large-scale production of custom proteins
Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E.…
What’s the Largest Current on Earth? It Moves More Water Than Every River Combined—Many Times Over
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest current has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC,…
How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning…
Inside Mercury’s Raditladi and Eminescu craters, MESSENGER images revealed glacier-like flows that may consist of salts and other volatile-rich material preserved for more than a billion years—raising the possibility of buried niches analogous to salt deposits inhabited by extremophiles in Earth’s Atacama Desert.
Mercury looks like the last place to search for a glacier. Sunlit ground can reach about 430°C, the…
Working with nature can help NZ adapt to climate change. Where is the plan to do it?
Two major reports released in recent weeks help illustrate the scale of New Zealand’s climate adaptation challenge –…
LatConnect 60 and Phi Earth Partner to Connect Space and Soil
Nature-based projects are generating more environmental data than ever before. Satellites observe landscapes from orbit, while field teams…
World-first test sends information through light beams without loss
A laser beam shot across a university campus may have just solved one of telecommunication’s oldest problems. Researchers…
AI Spots Hidden Solar Storm Signs 9 Hours Early
When we think of weather forecasts, we instinctively think of weather on Earth like rain or shine. However,…
Kiwis missing after Nepal disaster were on pilgrimage
Five New Zealanders are among those reported missing after a massive flash flood and landslide hit Nepal and…