On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic…
Indian professor wins eminent Dirac Medal, joining Hawking and other physics giants
Deepak Dhar, an IINSA distinguished professor and one of India’s most respected theoretical physicists, has been awarded the…
In 2017, Antigua and Barbuda removed invasive rats and goats from Redonda; by 2023, vegetation biomass rose over 2,000% and ground dragons increased 13-fold
Redonda had become a thriving haven for wildlife within a few years, and now it has received a…
Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols in the…
150 bilbies released in Queensland national park where they were once extinct
In the middle of the night in western Queensland, Save the Bilby Fund CEO Kev Bradley is nervous…
IN-SPACe moves to privatise operations of Rs 986 crore spaceport
To identify a suitable industry partner, IN-SPACe has issued an expression of interest (EoI) inviting proposals from eligible…
Punch The Baby Monkey: Punch, the baby monkey, turns 1: His childhood loneliness has turned him into a baby protector and he’s received 25000 birthday cards on his special day
Punch, the orphaned baby Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, Tokyo, who conquered the hearts of millions while…
In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned out to be a species everyone had assumed died with the dinosaurs
Roughly 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney, at the bottom of a narrow sandstone canyon in Wollemi National Park,…
Researchers mapped more than 100 lakes across 1,000 kilometres of Brazil and Uruguay; the network could detect ecosystem stress before irreversible damage
Published in the journal One Ecosystem, the research provides the first systematic assessment of the Southern American Coastal…
In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”
The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…
In 1976, a 26-year-old biologist camped alone beneath a 35-foot artificial eagle nest: One chick she raised went on to father around 70 more
AI REPRESENTATION: The goal was to use a technique known as hacking, in which young birds are raised…
Massive Snapping Turtle Sparks Outrage in Crimea Aquarium Tank / X
Last updated Aug 9, 2026 Footage from Alushta Aquarium in Crimea shows the turtle, nicknamed Snapper by activists,…