First case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lion confirmed – as it happened | Australia news
Confirmed case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lionLisa Cox South Australia has confirmed its first H5…
Archaeology discovery: Scientists find feathers that shine light on 66 million-year-old dinosaur mystery
Scientists have uncovered exceptionally preserved bird feathers within a piece of fossilised dinosaur excrement dating back 66 million…
Global Microplastics Regulations: How Governments Are Rewriting the Rulebook to Curb Plastic Pollution at Its Source
A plastic bag can be banned. A bottle can be collected and recycled. But microplastics are different. They…
Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
Andromeda can be found without a telescope under a sufficiently dark sky, even though its light has travelled…
First case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lion confirmed – as it happened | Australia news
Confirmed case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lionLisa Cox South Australia has confirmed its first H5…
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and shrapnel tore into the statue’s arm — in the 110 years since, no visitor has been allowed back up the ladder
Every year, millions of people visit the Statue of Liberty, and a lucky, pre-booked fraction climb the 162…
Where El Nino is already making its mark
In some parts of the world, El Nino can trigger erratic changes in precipitation and wind. That can…
A molecular-hydrogen cloud only 300 light-years away spans roughly 40 full-Moon widths across our sky, yet astronomers did not identify it until 2025. Named Eos, it escaped conventional surveys because they search for molecular hydrogen indirectly through carbon monoxide—and almost all of Eos is CO-dark.
One of the nearest molecular clouds to the Sun hid across a patch of sky about 20 degrees…
In 1807, sailors left pigs on a remote island as emergency food; 192 years later, rescuers found small, athletic animals valuable to medical research | World News
Auckland Island pigs at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve – Christchurch, New Zealand. Credits – Wikimedia Commons The Auckland Islands…
Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn
Another meteor shower arrives later in November, with the Leonids expected to peak around 17 November. The Leonids…
Will building more homes to solve the housing crisis cost us our trees?
As we build more homes to tackle the housing crisis some worry trees will become collateral damage. But…
A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
After decades of observations, an international effort led by researchers at the University of Queensland’s School of Mathematics…