Fishing nets ‘most common cause’ of dolphin deaths in Cornwall
Fishing nets are the most likely cause of death for common dolphins stranded on Cornwall’s coast, research shows.…
Telescope image that echoes Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ contains some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the…
A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together
Researchers at Monash University have predicted an unusual new form of quantum matter that could overturn long-held assumptions…
In 2021, National Geographic reported that Sydney cockatoos can pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the learned trick had spread across 44 suburbs | World News
Cockatoo in Sydney. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons News from Sydney about cockatoos that learned to open garbage bins…
Artemis II crew to receive top US space medal for historic lunar journey | Artemis II
The crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission have earned the US’s top space medal, officials…
Japan reports injuries in earthquake that struck eastern regions
Tokyo, Japan – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan, injuring 37 people. Authorities immediately began assessing the…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 years
Samara reintroduced wild cheetahs to the Great Karoo in 2004 after 130 years. (Picture: Samara) In 1997, couple…
‘The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon’: How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear test
In the early hours of July 16, 1945, in a remote part of the New Mexico desert, a…
Anger over slow pace of reconstruction in Italian town devastated by earthquake in 2016 | Italy
As people gather in Amatrice on Monday for a mass to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake…
A comet that drifted between the stars for millions or even billions of years before entering our Solar System carries water with roughly 30 times more heavy hydrogen than a typical comet here, suggesting its ice formed in an extraordinarily cold alien planetary system.
For most of its existence, 3I/ATLAS was an invisible piece of ice moving between the stars. Then its…