Shark selfies: why ‘finfluencers’ need to put their cameras away | Sharks
Name: Shark selfies. Age: The phrase seems to have emerged in summer 2014 and will hopefully be retired…
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing
The footage runs just under three minutes. A wolf swims out from a rocky shoreline on the central…
Ban on illegal dumping on farm near St Oswald’s in Gloucester
A six-month ban has been placed on an illegal dump which “caused misery” for the surrounding community. More…
US Space Force, Japan launch sensor to bolster space surveillance above Indo-Pacific
A U.S. Space Force Space Domain Awareness payload launched successfully Aug. 10 aboard Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7, or…
Shortcut for simulating logical magic states could accelerate the design of fault-tolerant quantum computers – Physics World
Shortcut for simulating logical magic states could accelerate the design of fault-tolerant quantum computers – Physics World Skip…
It spans over 1 million acres, contains rare creatures and is the only place on Earth where two watery apex predators clash
Sometimes referred to as the ‘river of grass’, the Everglades National Park is a subtropical wetland spanning 1.5…
RNA is supposed to fall apart within hours, yet researchers have now read it from a mammoth frozen in Siberian permafrost 39,000 years ago — and the transcripts caught his muscle tissue in the middle of a stress response
RNA is the molecule biologists generally treat as disposable. Unlike DNA, which is built to be a stable…
UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans | Drought
The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to…
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
On Aug. 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos. Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of…
Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds
Researchers have shown that nanoscale silicon structures can amplify an otherwise weak optical effect enough to control light…
Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America
Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns’ worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a core powered by nuclear fusion.
In a Webb image, MoM-BH*-1 is scarcely more than a red point. Its spectrum, however, looks like no…