SScience Read More Where have all the long-spined black sea urchins gone?August 6, 2026 Words by Gary Rose MD FACS I’m sure that you’ve heard this phrase more than a few times…
EEnvironment Read More A perplexing plant is making a big comeback and it’s good news for our coasts and climateAugust 6, 2026 Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
SSpace Read More Spectacular fireball leads to recovery of NZ’s 11th meteoriteAugust 6, 2026 A meteorite recovered in the Wairarapa after a spectacular fireball streaked across the lower North Island has become…
PPhysics Read More Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research GroupsAugust 6, 2026 As part of its mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the…
WWildlife Read More In 1986, Australia eradicated rabbits from an island stripped bare by 150 years of grazing; native vegetation and seabird habitat are returningAugust 6, 2026 Australia’s catastrophic rabbit invasion sparked by a few dozen British bunnies Six kilometres south of Norfolk Island lies…
SScience Read More Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist. Scientists just looked inside them – and discovered thisAugust 6, 2026 The dodo may have disappeared more than 350 years ago, in the late 17th century, but its legacy…
EEnvironment Read More DC drought designation lifted after recent soaking rainsAugust 6, 2026 The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows encouraging progress: DC and much of the Interstate 95 corridor are no…
SSpace Read More I Am Artemis: Tom PercyAugust 6, 2026 As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the…
PPhysics Read More New material was created in Hiroshima nuclear explosion – Physics WorldAugust 6, 2026 New material was created in Hiroshima nuclear explosion – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
WWildlife Read More Wild monkeys read the history written on stone toolsAugust 6, 2026 Tool use gives some animals access to foods that teeth, fingers, or claws cannot easily open. Yet using…
SScience Read More South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crashAugust 6, 2026 This Falcon 9 was in orbit since January last year, when it blasted off from Florida. The same…
EEnvironment Read More Europa Clipper is already in space, travelling 1.8 billion miles toward Jupiter’s moon Europa, where a subsurface ocean holds more water than every ocean on Earth combined — it arrives April 2030 to ask whether anything is alive insideAugust 6, 2026 Europa Clipper is no longer a spacecraft waiting on a launch pad. NASA launched it on 14 October…