WWildlife Read More Funding boost to help restore water vole population in NottinghamshireAugust 23, 2026 A wildlife charity hopes funding of £760,000 will help the water vole population in Nottinghamshire to “thrive again”.…
EEnvironment Read More London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? | Low emission zonesAugust 23, 2026 Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room…
SSpace Read More Titan is the only place besides Earth with stable liquid on its surface, a working weather cycle and complex organic chemistry — and now, according to 2025 NASA research, a plausible mechanism for building the first membrane around a primitive cell, without liquid water involved.August 23, 2026 Titan has an unusual way of making an alien landscape feel familiar. Clouds gather. Rain falls. Rivers cut…
PPhysics Read More MIT engineers built a small room-temperature device that generates paired radio waves; a message encoded in one signal could be decoded only with its matching partnerAugust 23, 2026 MIT researchers develop room-temperature quantum technology using magnetic film to enable secure communication. (AI Image) Quantum technology has…
WWildlife Read More Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touching itAugust 23, 2026 The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead…
EEnvironment Read More Florida builds to adapt amid threats of sea level rise and worsening stormsAugust 23, 2026 One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day…
SSpace Read More India’s Rocket Launches Costliest Among Major Space Powers: Cambridge StudyAugust 23, 2026 New Delhi: As India marks its third National Space Day, celebrating the success of Chandrayaan-3 and the country’s…
PPhysics Read More Physics says a spacecraft with mass can never reach the speed of light: as it accelerates closer to c, the energy required rises without limit, so light speed isn’t merely difficult to reach — for massive objects, it’s physically unattainable.August 23, 2026 A powerful enough engine can make a spacecraft move faster and faster. That familiar sentence contains a trap:…
WWildlife Read More This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to ageAugust 23, 2026 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
EEnvironment Read More Sewage alerts in place at East Runton and Gorleston beachAugust 23, 2026 Gorleston and East Runton have seen sewage discharged into the sea from storm overflows. The alerts have been…
SSpace Read More Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed tripletAugust 23, 2026 In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
WWildlife Read More Researchers have documented mugger crocodiles and American alligators positioning sticks and twigs on or around their snouts during birds’ nesting season — apparently using the sought-after nesting material as bait to lure birds within striking distance.August 23, 2026 A crocodile lies still in shallow water near a colony of nesting birds, most of its body underwater,…