SpaceX veteran on how rocket tech could solve Earth’s water crisis
Spacecraft have to survive launch, operate flawlessly in orbit, and return safely to Earth. Jonathan Criss spent over…
Critically endangered sawfish are still killed for teeth carved into cockfighting spurs; one rostrum can produce products worth roughly $8,000
Sawfish are some of the ocean’s most unusual animals. With their long, saw-like snouts and ancient-looking bodies, they…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Interstellar Travel: The Space Age and Nuclear Rockets
The Universe is unfathomably huge, with over 2 trillion galaxies in an “observable” volume measuring 93 billion light-years…
No species left behind: how Spain saved its animals from wildfire
While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think…
Fires in France, Spain wear ‘the fingerprints of climate crisis’
Stefan Rahmstorf took this photo while on holidays amid the fire emergencies gripping south-west France.(Stefan Rahmstorf)”What climate will…
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an…
Fermiology-driven goniopolar transverse thermoelectricity in kagome metals
Yin, J.-X., Lian, B. & Hasan, M. Z. Topological kagome magnets and superconductors. Nature 612, 647–657 (2022). Article …
These crows may not survive because of how they look. Nature is red in tooth and claw – The Irish Times
This year a pair of hooded crows have nested somewhere near our garden near Derry (incidentally displacing the…
The International Space Station circles the planet every 92 minutes, so its crew passes through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in a single working day, and the only way human bodies cope is for the station to ignore all of it and run on Greenwich time with the window shades down
Every 45 minutes or so, the light outside the International Space Station changes sides. A blue line gathers…
Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
In its latest heatwave bulletin published on Saturday, the Italian health ministry says that by Monday, some 25…
New Observations Reveal the Staggering Scale of the Universe’s Largest Galaxy
As new observations reveal the outer edges of IC 1101 for the first time, scientists have confirmed it…