Scientists collected 49 spider webs in Australia; their DNA revealed 85 vertebrate species hiding nearby |
Spider webs may hold a surprising record of the animals living nearby. A study found that genetic traces…
Joseph Nguthiru: Turning the world’s most invasive plant into bioplastic
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
APOD: 2026 September 13 – Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea
Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before…
How Chennai’s mridangam makers solved a physics puzzle centuries before CV Raman
The lane in Mylapore announced itself before I saw it: the smell of wet leather and wood shavings…
The Creatures Waiting At The Bottom Of The Deep Sea
At the bottom of the deep sea, it seems the creatures get stranger the farther down they live.…
Priced out of Melbourne, an Australian couple bought 1.5 hectares in Tasmania for $330,000; in 2022 they began a recycled bottle Earthship and completed the home nearly three years later for $880,000
For Matt Ellis and Kate Tucker, buying a home in Melbourne became a familiar cycle of hope, bidding…
US study warns a 1-in-250-year solar storm could cut power to 5 million, cost $1.8 billion a day
New research estimates the devastating effects an extreme geomagnetic storm would have on the United States and how…
Tiny sound waves could help solve a major quantum computing problem
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new…
Photographer captures four seals together in Poole Harbour
The photograph offers a remarkable glimpse of the marine mammals in their natural environment. Martin Shaw, who posted…
Plastics Recycling: TotalEnergies Becomes the Sole Owner of
Paris, September 11, 2026 – As part of the restructuring of Plastic Energy’s shareholding, TotalEnergies agreed to acquire…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
A Century-Old Physics Effect Just Got a New Dimension
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new…