Rare solar eclipse to be twinned with meteor shower in night sky spectacular this month
Much of the world is set to look towards the night sky in August, to take in a…
China hopes to banish blackouts as quantum tech puts power grid in superposition
China plans to expand the application of quantum technologies – including precision sensors and computer simulations – across…
Fat squirrels, rowdy bears and burned-out rangers: How Trump policies are scrambling America’s national parks
As a backcountry ranger at a national park, Sam built a career doing work that many visitors never…
Fly-tipping dumped along 200 metres of Mill Lane in Yalding caught on video
A motorist has captured dashcam footage showing fly-tipped rubbish scattered for more than 200 metres along a country…
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (photos)
SpaceX has sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying…
World’s largest neutrino detector pushed to 300,000 volts at CERN
Scientists have been testing the limits of the world’s largest neutrino experiment after they subjected the prototype detector…
Its staring yellow eyes and enormous, downturned frog-like mouth give it an expression of permanent disapproval…
At first glance, the tawny frogmouth looks more like a grumpy piece of bark than a bird. Its…
Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles? An expert explains
Last week a government minister in the Northern Territory, spruiking a plan to make Darwin “the datacentre capital…
UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
Scientists Who Uncovered Altermagnetism Win Major Physics Honor
Altermagnetic crystal: not only the directions of spin polarization (in magenta and cyan) alternate on neighboring magnetic atoms,…
Endangered white-clawed crayfish offered recovery lifeline
Conservations bodies across the north of England are collaborating to prevent the UK’s only native freshwater crayfish disappearing…
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter’s gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, but there may be more liquid water inside it than in every…