Australia confirms H5N1 bird flu case in local mammal
Australia confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal on Sunday, after it found the…
When scientists announced Webb’s first definitive detection of Neptune’s auroras in March 2025, they revealed another surprise: observations taken in 2023 showed that the planet’s upper atmosphere had cooled by several hundred degrees since Voyager 2 visited in 1989—and scientists still don’t know exactly why.
The first definitive detection of auroras on Neptune came with a quieter discovery concealed in the same infrared…
Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say | Environment
The Australian government has been accused of leaving waters near the mainland largely unprotected by establishing the bulk…
Rescue mission canceled for NASA’s Swift space telescope
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to…
Physicists create a tiny “Big Bang” with surprisingly small atomic nuclei
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have recreated the primordial state of matter believed to have filled the…
Listening to the bush: how AI can help NZ rid its wilderness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain…
A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded
Healthy growth and development depend on tens of thousands of genes being switched on at the right time…
30 dead after Guinea landfill collapse from torrential rain landslide
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
China's Chang'e-7 launch will not proceed in planned window this year – news.cgtn.com
China’s Chang’e-7 launch will not proceed in planned window this year news.cgtn.comChina postpones launch of unprecedented water-hunting moon mission…
Cosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwise
A major limit on dark photon dark matter may be far weaker because early-universe plasma stops absorbing energy…
Penguin Spots Strange Object in Snow and Can’t Resist Investigating
In this incredible footage captured by wildlife photographer Piet van den Bemd, a curious penguin waddles down a…
Psychology says people who fill every spare moment with noise — podcasts, playlists, background television — aren’t distracted or disorganised, they’re often quietly managing a loneliness they haven’t quite named yet
The year I sold my restaurants, I found out I had no idea what silence sounded like. A…