10 Extinct Creatures That Aren’t What We Thought
The study of extinct creatures has a major hurdle. There is no living dinosaur to observe. No cave…
Can the EU find its energy independence in the Arctic?
Shrouded in darkness for six months of the year and sparsely populated, the Arctic’s vast expanse may appear…
The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks
Scientists have confirmed one of the most extensive detections yet of complex organic carbon on Mars, found in…
In 2021, ‘Air Jaws’ photographer Chris Fallows bought a South African farm with his wildlife-art earnings and combined land formed a 3,200-acre nature reserve | World News
Portrait of the photographer Chris Fallows along with the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with its jaws open.…
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
All that processing is dictated by which neurons have connections to others. For example, the visual system does…
Culture for Sustainable Development: New UN Decade, a renewed global
The Decade builds on the growing recognition that culture is a powerful driver and enabler of sustainable development. In…
APOD: 2026 September 6 – Pluto in Enhanced Color
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s…
A 10-year-old started a wildlife project after finding a US park covered in trash; years later, he rescues turtles, pelicans and fish | World News
JOHN CARL TILGHMAN AND HIS BROTHER EMPTY MONOFILAMENT COLLECTION BINS THEY INSTALLED TOGETHER/ Image: Points of Light/ JOHN…
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 launches on first flight. Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy announced it successfully launched its…
In What Ways Are We Not Prepared for the Big One?
The West Coast of the United States lies on the Pacific ring of fire, the most seismically active…
Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: much of its famous red dust formed while the ancient planet was still wet.
From Earth, Mars looks red because a veil of extraordinarily fine dust sits on its surface and hangs…
In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new…