On this day in space! July 31, 1971: Apollo 15 astronauts drive on the moon for 1st time
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the…
Meet the marine iguana: The world’s only sea-going lizard that sneezes salt and shrinks to survive |
PC: By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada Most reptiles never venture beyond the shore. The marine iguana built its…
The James Webb telescope keeps finding supermassive black holes in the infant universe so large that a few appear to outweigh every star in their host galaxy combined, a ratio the standard picture of how these giants grew cannot easily explain
Between 2019 and 2022, astronomers managed something that had never been done: they took two direct images of…
In a first, ‘super-Earth’ rocky exoplanet may have an atmosphere
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…
To protect endangered mountain gorillas, this wildlife vet empowers their human neighbors
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was just 26 when she became the first wildlife veterinarian in her home country of…
The Velociraptor stalking the kitchen in Jurassic Park was nearly two metres tall and scaly. The real animal barely reached your knee — about 15 kilos, roughly turkey-sized, and covered in feathers, with the quill anchor points still visible on a fossil forearm
The scene I remember most clearly from Jurassic Park is the kitchen one. It was one of my…
Scientists finally find a way to recycle plastic indefinitely
Chemistry chair Wei Zhang (right) and Graduate Research Assistant Zepeng Lei study plastic materials in the Zhang Lab.…
SpaceX veteran on how rocket tech could solve Earth’s water crisis
Spacecraft have to survive launch, operate flawlessly in orbit, and return safely to Earth. Jonathan Criss spent over…
Critically endangered sawfish are still killed for teeth carved into cockfighting spurs; one rostrum can produce products worth roughly $8,000
Sawfish are some of the ocean’s most unusual animals. With their long, saw-like snouts and ancient-looking bodies, they…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Interstellar Travel: The Space Age and Nuclear Rockets
The Universe is unfathomably huge, with over 2 trillion galaxies in an “observable” volume measuring 93 billion light-years…
No species left behind: how Spain saved its animals from wildfire
While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think…