More than 800 Canadian wildfires burning as air quality alerts extend to US
Air quality in the Midwestern city of Detroit is currently the worst in the world, Swiss air quality…
Saturn’s moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
The Huygens probe drifted under a parachute through an orange haze on January 14, 2005, and set down…
Calls for road signs after Wheldrake hedgehog deaths
A spate of hedgehog deaths on a village road has prompted calls to warn drivers with signs. Upset…
The moon is drifting away from Earth by about 3.8 centimetres a year — measured to the millimetre by bouncing laser light off mirrors the Apollo astronauts left sitting in the lunar dust more than half a century ago
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick…
Southern Water admits polluting four miles of sensitive River Test stream
Salmon born within the River Test chalk stream are genetically unique. They are more vulnerable and less resilient…
New Horizons mission wakens to explore solar system fringes
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
Honey bee larvae can’t smell – and that’s actually a good thing
A honey bee larva does almost nothing for itself. It lies curled inside a six-sided wax cell while…
Titan is the only place beyond Earth where a spacecraft has landed on a surface with liquid nearby, and the probe sent back the sound of alien wind before falling silent forever
On 14 January 2005, a small European probe dropped through an orange atmosphere, broke through the haze and…
Water firm amends ‘unacceptable’ Scilly sewage plan
The water firm said “there are no straightforward solutions and it had “reviewed its “proposals to include secondary…
Watch SpaceX launch 21 ‘data transport’ satellites for US military today
Starship won’t be the only SpaceX rocket flying today, if all goes according to plan. A Falcon 9…
Is dark matter ‘tuned in’ to a hidden dimension?
Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could…
How shark teeth and rose thorns solve the same problem
A new study has found that nature’s puncture tools – its fangs, stingers, spines and thorns – are…