Whale moves into new Swiss home
Whale specimen moves into new museum building in Freiburg Keystone-SDA A whale embarked on an unusual journey in…
In 2018 a female orca off the coast of Washington gave birth to a calf that died within half an hour, and rather than let the body sink she carried it with her, pushing it through the water on her head for 17 days and more than a thousand miles before finally letting go, and in 2025 the same whale did it all over again with another dead calf.
The mother’s designation, on the tracking records kept by the researchers who monitor her, is J35. Her name…
Best nature reserves in Norfolk for walks and rare wildlife
Here are five reserves which are hard to beat. 1. Cley and Salthouse Marshes Location: Coast Road, Cley-next-the-Sea,…
Surface Chemistry Shows Which Massive Stars Have Gained Mass from Binary Companions
Mass transfer between stars isn’t rare. Most stars, including massive ones, are born in binary pairs, and this…
Planning a New Era of Discovery with the Upgraded Advanced Light Source – Berkeley Lab News Center
Scientists around the world use the focused beams of light generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron…
Despite weighing a massive 4 tonnes, this mammal can dive 2000 metres down, hold its breath for an incredible 2 hours and even control its heart rate
The gold medal for deep diving goes to a bull southern elephant seal, recorded at an incredible 2,388m,…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot
Even if you aren’t the kind of person who often looks up the latest space images, it’s hard…
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to roughly 37 years of humanity’s current energy use, largely stored beneath the surface where most of us will never see it.
Earth’s oceans ended 2025 with more heat stored in their upper 2,000 meters than in any other year…
A Distant Stream of Stars May Offer New Clues to Dark Matter
Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material that…
Quantum materials’ search supercharged with new prediction framework
Scientists at the University of Osaka have developed a new prediction framework that can accurately evaluate if a…
Rainton Meadows reserve chicks hatch on new raft
The first chicks hatching at a nature reserve’s new raft have been hailed a “win for conservation”. Common…
Every wild land mammal on Earth — elephants, deer, wolves, mice and the rest — adds up to only about 20 million tonnes, a 2023 study estimated, roughly three kilograms per person, compared with about 390 million tonnes of humans
Add up every wild land mammal alive today, every elephant, wolf, red deer, field mouse and cave bat,…