SScience Read More Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way | AstronomyAugust 19, 2026 Astronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way, hurtling around the supermassive black hole at…
EEnvironment Read More NRW seeks River Severn drought order amid water crisisAugust 19, 2026 If approved by the Welsh Government, the order would reduce the minimum legally required flow in the River…
SSpace Read More NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace WorkforceAugust 19, 2026 NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students…
PPhysics Read More The physics of novel computation: beyond bits and chips to spikes and spins – Physics WorldAugust 19, 2026 The physics of novel computation: beyond bits and chips to spikes and spins – Physics World Skip to…
WWildlife Read More ‘I saved an extinct Tasmian Tiger’s head from obscurity’August 19, 2026 “I was like, ‘that’s no fox’, and then just like a bolt of lightning [hit me],” he said.…
SScience Read More Every asteroid with a ‘neck’ that astronomers had ever found had exactly two lobes joined at one narrow waist — until new images of the asteroid Nysa this month revealed a third lobe nobody expected, and nobody yet knows whether it was born whole or built from three separate collisionsAugust 19, 2026 Every asteroid known to have a distinct “neck,” the narrow waist that forms where two smaller bodies have…
EEnvironment Read More Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on | WaterAugust 19, 2026 The largest water reuse system in the UK, which could save thousands of litres of water a day…
SSpace Read More The space industry’s next challenge: supply chain resilienceAugust 19, 2026 America’s space economy is scaling faster than its industrial base can support. Commercial constellations are proliferating, national security…
WWildlife Read More 15-year-old helps rescue stranded shark at Maces Bay – CHCO TV26August 19, 2026 When 15-year-old Finn Holland discovered a porbeagle shark — a species of mackerel shark known to live in…
SScience Read More A camera the size of a small car, sitting on a mountain in Chile, began taking a new image of the southern sky every 40 seconds on 30 June 2026 — building a ten-year time-lapse of the universe that will scan the entire southern sky every few nights and issue up to seven million alerts a night whenever something moves or flickers.August 19, 2026 On 30 June 2026, a camera roughly the size of a small car stopped being primarily an engineering…
EEnvironment Read More Panels covering more than 1,200 acres of the Panoche Valley in California were expected to push the kit fox off the land, and instead the animals dug dens and raised litters beneath the rowsAugust 19, 2026 Just after sunset the gravel between the rows starts moving. Something small and pale slides out from under…
SSpace Read More US Air Force flight to Antarctica turns back after space activity warningAugust 19, 2026 A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous”…