A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon
Mars’ innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades. One of the biggest unanswered questions is where…
Mumbles dolphin rescue sees medics refloat stranded mammal
Two dolphins spotted thrashing in shallow water sparked an emergency rescue. The female common dolphins were stranded off…
How to flood-proof your home: from water-thirsty plants to deflated footballs | Flooding
The accelerating climate crisis and this year’s record-breaking El Niño mean that, although the summer’s heatwaves are still…
Key food item you can leave out to attract hedgehogs to your garden
Hedgehogs are a common sight in UK gardens this autumn, and there’s one food item you can leave…
A 37 percent carpet recycling rate in 1 state stands against 9 percent for the rest of the country, but the pounds it actually collected have been falling for three years
Pick up a three foot offcut of old carpet and the weight is wrong. It feels like a…
Final ViaSat-3 enters service as SES wraps up O3b mPower launch campaign
TAMPA, Fla. — The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the…
Dorset white-tailed eagle chick fledges as species returns to England
This marks the fourth consecutive year of successful fledging in England. The chick, known as GE38, is the…
Retired wind turbines are being transformed into tiny solar-powered houses and recycled skis by a Swedish company
As much as wind turbines are important, once their blades are decommissioned, all that’s left for them is…
On the dwarf planet Ceres, a lone mountain called Ahuna Mons rises four kilometres from an otherwise flat, cratered plain, built not from lava but from erupting salty brine that froze solid.
Ceres is a world of subdued relief. Its charcoal-grey surface is crowded with impact scars, but between the…
Hummingbird hawk moths and ivy bees: The insects growing in number as temperatures rise
As parts of the West Midlands baked in warmer temperatures this summer, species once considered unusual in the…
A Cold War hydrophone network built to track Soviet submarines across entire ocean basins was declassified in 1991, and scientists now use those same undersea microphones to follow individual whales calling to each other across thousands of miles of open water
Christopher Clark, the marine mammal scientist who ended up running the civilian side of this network, has said…
Jason Momoa raises alarm over coral reefs nearing extinction; scientists report world’s most widespread bleaching event |
From portraying the ocean superhero Aquaman to advocating for marine conservation, Jason Momoa has made ocean protection a…