Never-before-seen picture of Milky Way galaxy released
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a photo of Milky Way galaxy he captured during his latest…
North America once had 400 million beavers. Nearly wiped out by the 1900s, they are now restoring rivers, wetlands and wildlife one dam at a time | World News
For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping…
For nearly a century, absinthe was banned across the Western world as a hallucinogen that drove artists to madness — then chemists tested the old pre-ban bottles and found nothing special at all, no secret in the wormwood, just an unusually strong liquor that people drank far too much of
Thirteen sealed bottles outlived the panic that banned them. In 2008, a team led by Dirk Lachenmeier at…
Elon Musk’s fortune slumps to pre-SpaceX IPO levels after rout
SpaceX pulled off a successful launch last Friday evening at its Starbase facility in South Texas, sending its Starship rocket…
Vote for the names of twin snow leopard cubs in the Highlands
The public are being invited to help choose the names of twin snow leopard cubs born at Highland…
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
The team also worked with flies genetically engineered so light could switch their olfactory neurons on directly, in…
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly ten kilometres across struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula…
Large shark spotted off Jersey coast
The bay reopened an hour later, after the checks. BBC Jersey reporter Claire Peters, who was at the…
Discarded SpaceX rocket set to unintentionally smash into the moon
A drifting SpaceX rocket is set to crash into the moon on Wednesday, tracking experts say. The rocket…
APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus
Explanation: The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic…
Coyotes overtake abandoned housing development, vexing neighbors
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — In a region where the demand for housing outpaces its supply, a pack of…
Scientists May Have Finally Solved The Sun’s Missing Silver Mystery : ScienceAlert
The curious case of the solar system’s missing silver has had scientists scratching their heads for years. Why…