Nit pickers ban litter pickers: Council jobsworths forbid volunteers from cleaning streets because they bought the wrong red bin bags
By JOE ROSSITER, REPORTER Published: 20:25 EDT, 16 August 2026 | Updated: 21:03 EDT, 16 August 2026 A…
Scientists led by UCLA found that permanently shaded parts of pits on the Moon stay near a constant 17°C while the exposed surface swings between 127°C and −173°C — meaning humanity’s first permanent lunar address may be underground.
The Moon’s surface imposes a slow, punishing thermal cycle. A location in sunlight can reach about 127 degrees…
Grave fears for ‘iconic’ Aussie animal visited by 700,000 people a year
Upwards of 700,000 people watch Phillip Island’s famous little penguin parade each year, but the attraction’s future is…
Newer blood thinners linked to slower Alzheimer’s decline
Newer blood thinners were linked to slightly slower memory and thinking decline in people with both Alzheimer’s disease…
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light…
Bacteria killed billions of sea stars. A Northwest tribe has stepped in to help : NPR
Three-year-old sunflower stars explore the kelp forest for the first time. They come in a rainbow of colors…
Rocket Lab Satellite Platforms Built for MDA Space Successfully Reach Orbit, Supporting Globalstar Direct-to-Device Communications Services
Rocket Lab Corporation Rocket Lab Lightning Bus Rocket Lab Satellite Platforms Built for MDA Space Successfully Reach Orbit,…
The blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a human head but not the crawling child of the popular legend
A blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds — roughly a small piano — and when the animal…
Recycling fee put forward as solution to Australia’s growing solar panel waste
One of Australia’s leading science organisations says an additional installation fee of about $10 for each panel could…
In 2016, an amateur astronomer testing a new camera captured a supernova brightening up to 70 million light-years away
First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy which lies in…
Alaska runner hospitalized after using bear spray to fight off brown bear on trail
A runner was hospitalized in Alaska after fending off a bear attack in Anchorage this week. The woman, who was…
Parched Plymouth trees face fatal drought risk
An urgent plea is being made for people to water Plymouth’s trees – or many will not survive…