“The truck got stuck at 2am.” Why 12 giraffes were just captured in Namibia and driven to Angola
12 Angolan giraffes have been successfully reintroduced into Bicuar National Park in south-west Angola, as part of an…
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren’t sure what to expect
On Aug. 5, Earth’s moon is due for a human-made, high-speed impact from an identified flying object: a…
I study the boreal forest. This summer wildfires came for my home | Julee Boan
I have spent much of my career studying boreal forests and I know fire is part of how…
UK artist Conrad Shawcross sounds alarm on Jodrell Bank Observatory funding cuts – The Art Newspaper
The UK artist Conrad Shawcross has raised concerns about the possible closure of the Jodrell Bank Observatory which…
US scientists reveal hidden magnetism in ultrathin quantum material
A team of U.S. researchers has uncovered evidence of a newly proposed form of magnetism in an ultrathin…
Drone pilot spots humpback whale acting strangely. What happens next is breathtaking
Whale experts in Australia have shared extraordinary footage of the moment a baby humpback whale being born. Drone pilot Alexander Forrest had…
A 43-foot steel beam weighing 15,890 pounds rides 4,850 feet down an old South Dakota gold mine standing upright in a cage 4.5 feet wide, one of roughly 2,100 pieces that have to make the same trip before summer ends
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is pulling off one of the most logistically absurd construction projects in…
Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
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A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon
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French National Quantum Update: July 2026
Executive Summary France’s quantum ecosystem continued to expand in July 2026 through a combination of government oversight, industrial…
Huge great white spotted traveling up US and Canada as shark sightings surge | US news
The largest tagged male great white shark in the Atlantic Ocean has been identified traveling up the US…
The deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth reached just over 12 kilometres before the rock at the bottom turned so hot and plastic that it flowed back into the shaft, and for two decades of effort the drill had covered about two tenths of one percent of the distance to the centre
The deepest vertical borehole ever drilled reached 12,262 metres into the Kola Peninsula in 1989. Work had begun…