Black Swan Guards Injured Mate For Days On Highway Median As Countless Cars Pass By
As the founder of B.I.R.D.S., a volunteer animal rescue service based in Melbourne, Australia, Sonja Olsen is uniquely…
Almost 500 years after its last eruption, Italy’s supervolcano is growing restless
Decades of uplift and earthquakes appear to have progressively weakened parts of the shallow crust beneath Italy’s Campi…
Australia Is Evacuating an Antarctic Base So No One Has to Watch Thousands of Seals Die
A research base near Antarctica is about to be cleared of its human residents for the rest of…
‘There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity’: Physicists prove Einstein’s equivalence principle holds true at quantum scales
For the first time, physicists have measured the tiny quantum shift an object acquires by falling through Earth’s…
Angelina Jolie-backed wildlife sanctuary is fighting to save 217 animals in Namibia; lions, leopards and African wild dogs are at the centre | World News
PC: The Namibian Investigative Unit At a wildlife sanctuary east of Namibia’s capital, the fate of more than…
Hawaii put 195,000 plastic bottles’ worth of recycled plastic into Fort Weaver Road in 2022, but the experiment came with a hidden environmental question | World News
A road in western Oahu looks much like any other stretch of asphalt. Cars pass over it, tyres…
Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
The Moon has a full dance card along the ecliptic this month. The Moon is busy in September.…
New Study Expands Search for “Dark Photons,” a Leading Dark Matter Candidate
More than fifty years after it was proposed, the search for Dark Matter continues, whether through cosmic surveys…
In 1997, Ted Turner opened his New Mexico ranch to endangered Mexican wolves; the facility became a major breeding centre for animals released into the wild | World News
Image(s): Left/ Robert Reck/Right/US Fish and Wildlife Service In 1997, Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in south-central New Mexico…
‘A new mission starting today’: 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival
After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun its…
Climate injustices have been laid bare in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The recent glacial collapse and catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet are not isolated tragedies (Report, 28 August).…
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
Let’s start with the number that makes the rest of the story hard to picture: 200 billion. That…