Nasa’s new space telescope will tackle some of the universe’s biggest mysteries
Nasa is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in…
On a windswept Norwegian island, scientists painted a single blade black on 4 wind turbines, and the number of birds killed by those spinning blades fell by about 72 percent
Picture a huge wind turbine turning slowly against a gray sky. Its long white blades sweep around in…
NASA’s Roman Telescope will use a fascinating new method to locate supermassive black holes
Black holes sit at the center of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Some contain millions or…
To make a single pound of honey, the bees in a hive may visit around two million flowers and can fly more than 50,000 miles between them — equivalent to more than twice around the planet
Let’s start with the flowers. To produce a pound of honey, a colony’s worker bees have to visit…
Michael Shanks mocked for renewables boast as Labour eye new North Sea oil fields
On Friday, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) issued a release celebrating the Commonwealth Games…
As Mars’s atmosphere thinned and its surface became cold, dry and irradiated billions of years ago, any surviving microbial life may have found its last refuge underground. Yet the environments most capable of sheltering life could lie metres—or kilometres—below the surface, far deeper than any spacecraft has directly sampled.
Mars has a life-search problem built into its geology. The material we can reach most easily sits in…
Scientists find the secret of birdsong's 'spectacular diversity' – BBC
Scientists find the secret of birdsong’s ‘spectacular diversity’ BBCScientists reveal eight building blocks that make up songs of all…
Bins outside houses across Liverpool in line for major makeover
New measures are being adopted in Liverpool to tackle fly-tipping The communal bins like these across the city…
SpaceX stock stumbles ahead of major Starship test tonight
SpaceX (SPCX) stock stumbled to a new all-time low ahead of a major mission test tonight, just as…
Mating season may be behind monkeying around on Hong Kong MTR tracks: expert
Hong Kong could see more monkey encounters during the animals’ mating season, an expert has said, after one…
In June 2025, on a Chilean mountaintop, scientists switched on the largest digital camera ever built — named for the astronomer who found the first convincing evidence for dark matter — at the start of a project whose decade-long survey may finally find a ninth planet hidden in the outer darkness of our solar system
The camera is about the size of a small car and holds 3,200 megapixels across 189 sensors. On…
France sends boats to evacuate tourist hotspot Cap Ferret as wildfires rage
French authorities ordered the complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, launching boats to help rescue…