Officials urge action as dozens of storks electrocuted on Jordan Valley power lines
Carcasses and remains of some 30 white storks electrocuted on power lines were found Monday north of the…
James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns’ worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a core powered by nuclear fusion.
In a Webb image, MoM-BH*-1 is scarcely more than a red point. Its spectrum, however, looks like no…
SC: Residents asked to limit water use after major line break
Walhalla asks residents to limit water use after major line break WALHALLA, S.C. — The City of Walhalla,…
Elon Musk’s Starbase wants to expand in south Texas : NPR
A view from Boca Chica Beach towards two SpaceX launch pads, in south Texas. Reynaldo Leaños Jr./For NPR…
Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds
Researchers have shown that nanoscale silicon structures can amplify an otherwise weak optical effect enough to control light…
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing
The footage runs just under three minutes. A wolf swims out from a rocky shoreline on the central…
On 1 March 1982, a Soviet probe called Venera 13 touched down on Venus and was expected to last just 32 minutes in 465°C heat — it survived for 127 minutes, drilled and analysed a soil sample, and sent back the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of Venus.
At 03:57:21 Universal Time on 1 March 1982, Venera 13 settled onto Venus after an atmospheric descent lasting…
Search for survivors continues after powerful earthquake kills dozens in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Indonesia, searching for bodies and…
Swift spacecraft, and a mission to save it, caught on video
The Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe in Añasco, Puerto Rico, captured this video at about 8:02–8:03 p.m. AST…
Scientists Propose More Realistic Benchmarks For Quantum Algorithms
Insider Brief Two Fraunhofer IAF publications propose methods for assessing potential quantum advantage under more realistic physical conditions…
In the 1930s, Florida introduced rhesus macaques to boost tourism; today the invasive monkeys carry a potentially fatal virus and are considered a public-health concern
Nonhuman primates (NHPs) can harbour multiple zoonotic pathogens owing to their close phylogenetic relationship and frequent interactions with…
Mimas looks like one of Saturn’s deadest moons: a frozen, heavily cratered ball with no obvious activity. Then scientists discovered a global ocean beneath it in 2024 — an ocean less than 25 million years old, younger than the Himalayas, hiding beneath a surface that gives almost nothing away.
Mimas does almost everything an ocean world is not supposed to do. Its surface is old, rigid-looking and…