Why basking sharks have the strangest skin in the ocean
Most shark skin feels like fine sandpaper. One way it runs smooth, the other way it grips. That…
New dinosaur discovered in Zimbabwe reveals diversity of region
The late Triassic was when dinosaurs were beginning to spread around the planet before they became the dominant…
Revealed: London’s 10 new wild swimming and revitalised beauty spots
Ten locations across London have been singled out for cash that will be used to clean up waterways…
A Martian day runs 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, so rover teams at JPL live on Mars time for the length of a mission, sliding their whole schedule later each day until they are eating breakfast at midnight, and their families describe it as jet lag with no destination
At first, the change is almost trivial. A rover engineer who begins work at 8 a.m. today begins…
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
An international research team has experimentally produced the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material designed to…
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
Ocean researchers have shared the extraordinary moment a nautilus swam right up to their underwater vehicle to say hello. Marine…
Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States May See Aurora Thursday Night
A vivid Aurora Borealis display reflected in the Glendo Reservoir in Glendo State Park, Wyoming. getty The northern…
Food waste collections bringing in more than expected
When the new service was launched in March, it had been estimated that around 200 tons would be…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
UC San Diego Advances Quantum Metamaterials for Ultrafast Optical Computing
National Science Foundation GovernmentUnited States · 1001-5000 FTEs The National Science Foundation, situated in Alexandria, Virginia, is a…
Satellites spy penguin poop on Danger Islands photo of the day for July 30, 2026
Pieces of sea ice drift near Antarctica’s Danger Islands in this image, acquired on Jan. 22, 2023, by…
There is no surface anywhere on Jupiter to land on or crash into, just hydrogen that thickens with depth until it stops behaving like a gas and starts conducting electricity like a metal, so a descending probe would be crushed and absorbed into the planet long before it ever found solid ground
Every image of Jupiter appears to show a surface. There is a clean circular edge, a striped face,…