Dead dolphin washes up on Hove beach coastguard confirms
The animal was discovered washed up near Hove Lawns on the morning of Sunday, August 30. Shoreham Coastguard…
Here’s what wrapping your phone in aluminum foil does
Ever wondered what happens when you wrap your phone in tinfoil? I decided to try it out to…
Trump EPA is manipulating safety data around a highly toxic flame retardant, advocates allege | US Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is manipulating safety data around a highly toxic flame retardant deployed across the US…
On this day in space! Aug. 30, 1992: Astronomers discover 1st Kuiper Belt object out beyond Pluto
On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time.…
IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
Scientists used a new error correction strategy to encode 70 logical qubits and tackle a problem considered classically…
In 1967, Guy Savy and a partner bought a degraded Seychelles island; after restoring nesting habitat, its sooty tern colony rose from under 20,000 pairs to about 700,000
Guy Savy and a partner bought a degraded Seychelles island A tiny coral island on the northern edge…
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved
A small group of woolly mammoths clung to a scrap of land off the Siberian coast for roughly…
Wind turbine blades are built to survive decades and are difficult to recycle; an Iowa plant mechanically shreds them into fibres and powders for concrete, mortar and asphalt
The recycling process begins with extracting reusable components from the blades.(Representational photo, Getty images) Wind turbine blades can…
SpaceX targets thousands of annual launches at planned $100 billion Louisiana site
SpaceX targets thousands of annual launches at planned $100 billion Louisiana site – Futura-Sciences August 30, 2026 3…
Physicists predicted in 1936 that a powerful magnetic field could turn empty space into a kind of prism — and on August 5, 2026, observations of a magnetar with a field more than a trillion times Earth’s produced the strongest evidence yet that they were right.
About 13,000 light-years away, give or take the spread in astronomical distance estimates, a stellar remnant is turning…
Scientists found common eastern bumblebee queens can survive underwater for up to 1 week; the 2024 University of Guelph study began after flooded fridge tubes |
Large earth bumblebee (queen) on phacelia blossoms. Credits – Wikimedia Commons A laboratory accident at a Canadian university…
If the Sun vanished right now, Earth would go dark eight minutes later — but if its sound could cross space at the speed it travels through air, the Sun’s final roar would continue reaching us for nearly 14 years, because light travels 874,000 times faster.
If the Sun could disappear in a physically impossible instant, Earth would not notice at once. The last…