Space launch company investigates rocket ‘issue’ ahead of engine test plans
The company which hopes to launch a space rocket from the northernmost edge of the UK is investigating…
Glen Affric sees first wild-born beavers in 400 years
Glen Affric, near Cannich, is a large area of woodland, lochs, hills and mountains. Trees for Life said…
Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn | Strait of Hormuz
The closure of the strait of Hormuz has created conditions for an extreme global biodiversity threat, with scientists…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…
Africa Alive welcomes arrival of two newborn animals
Africa Alive saw the birth of a pair of red river hoglets earlier this month. The wildlife park…
As Trump threatens wildfire smoke tariffs, Canada looks to reduce fire risk
While U.S. President Donald Trump threatens tariffs over wildfire smoke drifting south, Canadian fire experts say large forest…
Vigorous turbulence driven by quasar-mode feedback in a cluster core
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)1 is the successor to the Hitomi X-ray observatory2, which ceased operations…
Just feeding, or maybe a bit of fun? Killer whale seen smashing into captive sunfish on video.
The video, captured in 2024 by research scientist Kathryn Ayres off the coast of Baja California Sur in…
Drilling for Oil the Old-Fashioned Way in ‘Little Texas,’ Indonesia
The old red truck’s engine was jury-rigged to control a pump tied to a three-legged tower cobbled together…
Cassini was deliberately flown into Saturn in September 2017 while still working perfectly, because the alternative was letting a dying spacecraft carrying Earth bacteria eventually drift into Enceladus, a moon with a liquid ocean and hydrothermal vents on its floor.
On 15 September 2017, Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere while eight of its instruments were still returning data. The…
Russia’s ‘Red Book’ exists to keep rare species alive. After September 1, builders who claim ‘no other site available’ get a legal green light to wipe one out.
The independent Russian data project “To Be Precise” has published an article explaining how Russia’s “Red Book” is compiled, why it exists, and…
Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years | Wildfires
A spate of ferocious wildfires across North America and Europe, worsened by the climate crisis, has incinerated homes…