A shark clamped onto a 12-year-old 60 miles from help. His brother’s split-second move saved him.
Jack Roll, of Friendswood, Texas, saw it before anyone else and decided it was nothing. He took the…
Scientists looked inside the heads of crocodiles – and made an astounding discovery
For the past 100 million years, crocodiles and their close relatives – including alligators, caimans and gharials –…
Bones of medieval kings saved from Spanish wildfire
Firefighters raced to save a mythical 1,000-year-old monastery in northeastern Spain as a growing wildfire prompted the hasty…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
Rescued lions and tigers leave Argentine zoo for sanctuaries abroad
LUJAN, Argentina (AP) — Thirty lions and tigers that were kept alive — barely — for years in…
A confidence expert shares a simple body language gesture that signals a person is trustworthy and confident
Confidence is not always easy to have in social settings, especially when meeting new people. In 2021, a…
7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Indonesia
The earthquake struck offshore in the Flores region A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Flores…
A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune’s winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to 9 kilometres per second, about…
30 big cats are prepared to be transported from Argentina to South Africa and the United States
A global animal welfare organization initiated the relocation of 30 big cats from the former Zoo Luján in…
Empty Space May Not Be Empty After All: Magnetar Reveals a Bizarre Quantum Effect
A Swinburne astronomer may have just confirmed one of the quirkiest aspects of quantum mechanics: that seemingly empty…
Bin sins: common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them | Recycling
Australians consider themselves good recyclers. But while more than 90% say recycling is important, many admit to doing…
SpaceX’s Starship generates more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V that carried humans to the Moon, yet after 13 test flights it still hasn’t demonstrated ship-to-ship refueling in orbit — one of the biggest technical hurdles standing between Starship and Mars.
SpaceX’s Starship V3 leaves its launch pad with roughly 18 million pounds of thrust. NASA credits the Saturn…