Wildlife struggling in record-breaking heat, charities say
Wildlife charities across the South have said this summer’s heatwaves have had an “unprecedented impact” on wild animals.…
Irish scientist describes capturing eclipse from plane
A Co Wicklow solar physicist has described partaking in an aerial mission to record images of this week’s…
Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear
A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard…
A NASA processor now being tested at JPL is performing 500 times faster than the radiation-hardened chips currently used in spaceflight — yet fits in the palm of a hand and could let future spacecraft make AI-powered decisions on their own when communicating with Earth can take 44 minutes round-trip.
A palm-sized processor undergoing tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced an early result that could reset…
A shark clamped onto a 12-year-old 60 miles from help. His brother’s split-second move saved him.
Jack Roll, of Friendswood, Texas, saw it before anyone else and decided it was nothing. He took the…
Scientists looked inside the heads of crocodiles – and made an astounding discovery
For the past 100 million years, crocodiles and their close relatives – including alligators, caimans and gharials –…
Bones of medieval kings saved from Spanish wildfire
Firefighters raced to save a mythical 1,000-year-old monastery in northeastern Spain as a growing wildfire prompted the hasty…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
Rescued lions and tigers leave Argentine zoo for sanctuaries abroad
LUJAN, Argentina (AP) — Thirty lions and tigers that were kept alive — barely — for years in…
A confidence expert shares a simple body language gesture that signals a person is trustworthy and confident
Confidence is not always easy to have in social settings, especially when meeting new people. In 2021, a…
7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Indonesia
The earthquake struck offshore in the Flores region A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Flores…
A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune’s winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to 9 kilometres per second, about…