Kenya crews race to rescue giraffe cow and calf from electric fence, but the mother didn’t make it
A giraffe calf in Kenya survived an ordeal that killed its mother and has another shot at life.…
Satellite Images Show Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Breaking Away From Greenland Glacier
Satellite imagery from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission shows a 29-square-mile section of Petermann Glacier’s floating ice tongue separating…
Homes damaged as storms follow heatwaves in England and Wales | UK weather
Dozens of homes have been damaged by flooding and the Met Office had issued warnings for thunderstorms and…
Glowing galaxy with anomalous extra arms photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2026
An image of this spiral galaxy NGC 4258 that combines X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory (seen…
Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material
A recently proposed form of magnetism known as altermagnetism could eventually help researchers make computer memory smaller, faster,…
Brewery Worker Unloading Supplies Finds Wet Baby Hidden Among Kegs
Earlier this month, Steve, an employee at Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis, Indiana, was cleaning a new shipment…
A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.
The team from a Spanish marine research NGO called Condrik Tenerife had spent the day two kilometres off…
A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
This long, hot summer has brought our third drought in five years and the driest July in almost…
Near total lunar eclipse will be seen from North and South America Thursday night | Lunar eclipses
A near total lunar eclipse will be visible across large swathes of North and South America on Thursday…
Electric-field control of coherent ferron oscillations
Tang, P. et al. Excitations of the ferroelectric order. Phys. Rev. B 106, L081105 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L081105 (2022). Bauer, G.…
Oxfordshire’s adder snake loss, after Warwickshire confirms extinction
Following the confirmed extinction of the species in neighbouring Warwickshire, concerns have been raised about the future of…
A Biologist Explains Why Male Honeybees Explode When They Mate
The drone’s death during mating isn’t a tragic accident of biology. It’s the point. getty A male honeybee…