EEnvironment Read More Builder pays over £200k after polluting stream and watercoursesSeptember 5, 2026 A number of projects will receive money for ongoing environmental work and conservation Silt blasted out the drains…
SSpace Read More The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.September 5, 2026 Gateway is often described as the Moon’s first spaceport, but almost nothing about it resembles an airport on…
PPhysics Read More No escape from thermodynamic limitsSeptember 5, 2026 HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
WWildlife Read More Country diary: The wild, riotous sounds of otters in battle | EnvironmentSeptember 5, 2026 I hear them before I see them: a wailing, or something more like ululation. High-pitched, repeated vocalisations that…
SScience Read More Private group wants to launch “cheapest possible” mission to Alpha CentauriSeptember 5, 2026 There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within what is known as the Local Group of galaxies—our…
EEnvironment Read More Panama Canal begins reducing crossings due to El NiñoSeptember 5, 2026 The Panama Canal has begun to reduce the number of ships passing through due to a drought caused…
SSpace Read More What Could SpaceX (SPCX) Flight 14 Mean For Its Reusable Rocket Push?September 5, 2026 Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS: SPCX) is targeting its first orbital Starship mission with Flight 14, marking a shift…
PPhysics Read More In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What EnduresSeptember 5, 2026 But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing.…
WWildlife Read More Bones found in Yukon ID’d as ice-age cheetahSeptember 5, 2026 At first, bones found in the Bluefish Caves and at a mine site in northern Yukon were assumed…
SScience Read More Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on its ownSeptember 5, 2026 Blood clouded the water off Dominica just before noon, and eleven sperm whales pressed in closer instead of…
EEnvironment Read More Two men pulled alive from Nepal hydropower plant tunnel nine days after floodsSeptember 5, 2026 If you’re just joining us, there is a sense of renewed hope in Nepal today after two workers…
SSpace Read More Elon Musk Committed SpaceX to Building “Exclusively on Nvidia.” Here’s What That Locks In for SpaceX’s Compute Bill.September 5, 2026 SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) held its first earnings call as a publicly traded company on Aug. 4, and CEO Elon…