A Biologist Explains Why Humans Have Lips (Hint: No Other Primate Has Them)
You have looked at your lips every day of your life and probably never once wondered why they’re…
Wash rice twice, not 7 times: Drought-hit England targets faith, cultural habits
England’s water crisis has prompted a £270,000 campaign urging people to wash rice fewer times and use less…
How to photograph this week’s 96% ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse on August 27-28
Just over two weeks after the total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, eclipse season will deliver a…
‘Best Day of My Entire Life’: Incredible Polar Bear Encounter in Remote Canada
A breathtaking encounter with a polar bear in Canada’s Arctic left one Nunavut resident describing the moment as…
Moderate earthquake shakes Japan, injuring more than 30 in the Tokyo region
TOKYO — A moderate earthquake rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, early Sunday, injuring more than 30…
Saudi space economy set to nearly quadruple to $31.6bn by 2035
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s space economy is projected to expand nearly fourfold to $31.6 billion by 2035 from $8.7…
Alaska eradicated rats from a 6,869-acre Aleutian island more than two centuries after they arrived in a shipwreck; within two years some native bird populations had increased 200% or more and missing seabirds began returning
Alaska eradicated rats from a 6,869-acre Aleutian island More than two centuries after a shipwreck brought non-native rats…
Corn buntings that had all but vanished from England’s fields raised 5 nests inside an Oxfordshire solar park, and every one fledged while four in ten failed just beyond the fence
From the road, the array near Watchfield in Oxfordshire looks like any other, rows of dark panels on…
Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…
Stuck Jersey hedgehog saved in ‘miracle’ wall rescue
It comes as animal charities have sounded the alarm over the impact of successive heatwaves on hedgehogs. They…
Why Swimming in Rivers or Lakes During Heatwaves Could Be a Deadly Mistake
Why Swimming in Rivers or Lakes During Heatwaves Could Be a Deadly Mistake – Futura-Sciences August 23, 2026…
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…