Icelandic coast guards seize Paul Watson Foundation anti-whaling ship and its 21 crew
LONDON (AP) — Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by…
Enceladus hides a salty ocean beneath its ice but also blasts that ocean directly into space, which means a spacecraft can test water from a potentially habitable sea simply by flying through the plume — no landing, drilling, or journey through kilometres of frozen crust required.
Most ocean worlds present the same brutal engineering problem. The water may be scientifically irresistible, but it is…
The First Temporal Photonic Crystal Advances Light into a New Dimension
When a team of physicists in Paris fabricated the world’s first temporal photonic crystal, they added a new…
Grinder, the Grouse Mountain grizzly bear, dies
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
In 2031, a JAXA capsule is due to land in the Australian desert carrying more than ten grams of dust collected from Phobos. Mixed into that dust may be fragments blasted off ancient Mars—material that could preserve organic chemistry, or perhaps even traces of hypothetical Martian life from billions of years ago.
If the schedule holds, a small Japanese capsule will cross the Australian sky in the 2031 fiscal year…
CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter
Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the…
‘Incredible’ blue sea creatures appear on beaches
Hundreds of “incredible” blue sea creatures have washed up on beaches in Cumbria. Velella velella, commonly known as…
This giant forest experiment offers hope for carbon storage
A ring of pipes has blown carbon dioxide over a stand of 180-year-old English oaks in Staffordshire, England,…
On this day in space! July 31, 1971: Apollo 15 astronauts drive on the moon for 1st time
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the…
Meet the marine iguana: The world’s only sea-going lizard that sneezes salt and shrinks to survive |
PC: By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada Most reptiles never venture beyond the shore. The marine iguana built its…
The James Webb telescope keeps finding supermassive black holes in the infant universe so large that a few appear to outweigh every star in their host galaxy combined, a ratio the standard picture of how these giants grew cannot easily explain
Between 2019 and 2022, astronomers managed something that had never been done: they took two direct images of…
In a first, ‘super-Earth’ rocky exoplanet may have an atmosphere
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…