Mont Blanc, the ‘roof of Europe’, loses more than a metre of height in a year | Mountains
Western Europe’s highest mountain shrank by more than a metre last year. The peak of Mont Blanc in…
Life after the moon: Artemis II’s Christina Koch steps down from active astronaut duty
Don’t expect any of the Artemis II moon astronauts to fly again soon. On Tuesday (Oct. 13), NASA…
A new route to spin-controlled photonics – Physics World
Researchers demonstrate Rashba-like spin splitting in a perfectly symmetric plasmonic crystal, challenging conventional assumptions about the role of…
When an elephant dies, its body marks the landscape for a decade
In the circle of life, nothing merely disappears — especially not something as massive as an elephant, which…
How did five baby orangutans end up abandoned in India?
Huddled and frightened, adjusting to an alien environment, five newly orphaned babies lay inexplicably in the forest’s undergrowth.…
NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon
If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning,…
Government’s quantum bid fast-tracked at UKRI despite cutbacks
Exclusive: ‘Wildcard’ proposal to Infrastructure Fund approved as projects including Cern experiment upgrade lost backing A government ‘wildcard’…
Porpoise spotted in River Gipping as fire crews respond
Fire crews were called to the river near the B&B Hotel on Wednesday after reports that what appeared…
Pampered city trees handle stress better than their country cousins
The next time you pass an urban tree, stop to appreciate what it’s been through. As a youngster,…
The 1st SpaceX Starship to survive a launch to space just came home to its launch site
Nearly three months after surviving its launch to space and a tumultuous trial at sea, the first Starship…
Owls ringed to measure impact of Purbeck’s nature-friendly farming
Singleton said National Trust tenant farmers were managing the land to support wildlife with areas of longer grass,…
Scientists Shocked to Discover ‘D-rex’, a Giant Fungus from Chinese Forests Dating Back 65 Million Years
– pictured, the stromata of Dianjunus rex in the field / doi: 10.3389/ffunb.2026.1940464 Deep in the forests of…