NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot
Even if you aren’t the kind of person who often looks up the latest space images, it’s hard…
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to roughly 37 years of humanity’s current energy use, largely stored beneath the surface where most of us will never see it.
Earth’s oceans ended 2025 with more heat stored in their upper 2,000 meters than in any other year…
A Distant Stream of Stars May Offer New Clues to Dark Matter
Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material that…
Quantum materials’ search supercharged with new prediction framework
Scientists at the University of Osaka have developed a new prediction framework that can accurately evaluate if a…
Rainton Meadows reserve chicks hatch on new raft
The first chicks hatching at a nature reserve’s new raft have been hailed a “win for conservation”. Common…
Every wild land mammal on Earth — elephants, deer, wolves, mice and the rest — adds up to only about 20 million tonnes, a 2023 study estimated, roughly three kilograms per person, compared with about 390 million tonnes of humans
Add up every wild land mammal alive today, every elephant, wolf, red deer, field mouse and cave bat,…
NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton
What qualifies as a win in environmental campaigning? Is it when a huge forest area that is home…
Comet 220P McNaught Puts On An Encore Performance
Comet 220P flares back into binocular visibility. It has been a busy month for astronomy. In the midst…
Big science seeks big wins from sustainability efforts – Physics World
Big science seeks big wins from sustainability efforts – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
Björn Persson’s New Book Highlights the World’s Incredible and Endangered Wildlife — Colossal
From the Tanzanian grasslands around Mount Kilimanjaro to the ever-evolving icy realm of Antarctica and beyond, Swedish photographer…
Models of the flood that refilled the Mediterranean put its peak flow through Gibraltar at roughly 100 million cubic metres a second — around 1,000 times the Amazon’s average discharge — with erosion at the Camarinal Sill reaching roughly 0.4 metres a day
Roughly 100 million cubic metres of water per second, pouring from west to east through the Strait of…
This state is likely to get the worst of El Niño
In February 1998, almost a year’s worth of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, as a series of…