World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August | Oceans
The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average…
Enjoy the partial lunar eclipse with 25% off this beginner-friendly Celestron telescope
A partial lunar eclipse takes place this Aug. 27-28 and this beginner-friendly Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ telescope, nearly $50…
Real-space imaging of moiré-confined excitons in twisted bilayer MoS2
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar …
Japanese Carrion crows have found a clever way to crack hard walnuts, turning passing cars into their own nutcrackers |
Carrion crows were observed using roads as a tool for opening walnuts. Instead of cracking every shell themselves,…
Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026
We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission…
The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events
NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the…
Cathie Wood’s ARK Goes On $27 Million SpaceX Shopping Spree
Cathie Wood continued betting big on SpaceX on Friday. Her ARK Invest firm purchased over 200,000 shares of…
A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now…
It moves like a cat, climbs like a primate and spends much of its time high up in trees — meet the world’s strangest dog
In the last moments of a glorious winter sunset in the Sonoran Desert – the ‘Magic Hour’, as…
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, yet the observable universe is about 93 billion light-years across. That isn’t because light broke its own speed limit: while the oldest light travelled toward us, the space separating us from its source continued to expand, leaving that source’s present-day location roughly 46.5 billion light-years away.
The apparent contradiction begins with a calculation that would be perfectly reasonable in a static universe. Light travels…
Ecuador’s Indigenous women are planting trees for birds, growing cacao for their families and protecting the forest for their children to save the Amazon | World News
Flor Juanga, a Shuar community representative from Ecuador’s Sucumbios Province. In Ecuador’s Amazon, planting a tree can mean…
SpaceX is climbing the stack and pulling up the ladder
In February, SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal valuing the combined business at $1.25 trillion, the largest…