Attract hedgehogs to your garden with 2 household items this summer
Hedgehogs are a beloved symbol of British wildlife and are often welcomed into gardens for their natural pest…
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
A night-migrating robin can choose a seasonally appropriate direction inside a featureless cage even when stars and landmarks…
The world is on fire: True scale of devastating wildfires wreaking havoc across the globe
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
We just got a glimpse at what NASA’s Skyfall helicopters will look like in action
If you just can’t wait for NASA’s new Mars helicopters to get to work, you can now see…
China pushes quantum entanglement 4x to 260 miles across fiber
Quantum networks could eventually connect computers and sensors across cities, but distance remains a major engineering hurdle. Quantum…
Rare footage shows dolphins using empty seashells as tools to catch fish, a skill called ‘shelling’
Video footage shows dolphins using empty seashells to catch fish and a calf potentially learning the hunting technique…
Enceladus appears to have almost everything life should need — water, chemistry, hydrothermal energy and an ocean capable of lasting geological ages. If we search it thoroughly and find nothing alive, that failure may become one of astrobiology’s most important discoveries: evidence that habitability alone is not enough to make life happen.
Enceladus offers astrobiology an unusually disciplined question. Saturn’s small icy moon has liquid water, contact between that water…
Greek wildfire kills two people as aircraft deployed to blaze at Belgian nature reserve | Wildfires
An elderly couple died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis on Sunday and a fire ravaged…
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a spacecraft with razor-thin power margins and no possibility of physical repair.
Voyager 2 has no repair port that anyone can reach, no spare spacecraft waiting nearby and no possibility…
Vietnamese scientists explore universe through some of world’s largest physics experiments
Through “High-Energy Physics Research through Selected International Experiments in Japan,” the Vietnamese scientists have joined two of the…
White magpie spotted behind Hamlyn Place, Kingsland
The bird, seen behind Hamlyn Place, was first noticed by David Clegg at around 10am this morning. Only…
R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described…