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…
University of Göttingen Researchers Map Molecular Wave Functions in 3D
Universities of Goettingen UniversityGermany · 1001-5000 FTEs The University of Göttingen is a public research university in Göttingen,…
Kenya: Four arrested over suspected poisoning of elephants
Four people have been arrested in Kenya as part of an investigation into a spate of mysterious elephant…
Hard to swallow? The future of snacking may be 3D-printed cookies made from upcycled plastic | Food
Cookies produced from upcycled plastic may sound like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi plot. But researchers…
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly | Tim Winton
Well, there’s no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…
Freezing liquid inside optical fibre makes light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly
Representational photo of a frozen optical fiber core in a glass capillary, which guides and couples light and…
After years of invasive rats threatening island wildlife, Tuvalu removed them from six islets; residents are now seeing birds and coconut crabs return |
On small islands scattered across the Pacific, changes in wildlife can be surprisingly easy to notice. A few…