Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires | Wildfires
On Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone…
SpaceX to launch Globalstar mission from Florida’s Space Coast
SpaceX to launch Globalstar mission from Florida’s Space Coast BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX will attempt to launch…
River otter left with head trauma after hit-and-run in California
An innocent river otter was left suffering from head trauma after a heartless hit-and-run driver struck the critter…
They’re age-old rivals –but did you know dogs and cats are actually related? Here’s how…
If you go back far enough, roughly 45 million years ago, the world was devoid of dogs and…
Tree planting started as a summer job, but it also taught me what it means to be Canadian
This First Person is the experience of Jackson Bonn, who lives in Belleville, Ont. For more information about…
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
A squid pulled from a sperm whale’s stomach during an Antarctic whaling expedition in 1955–56 sat overlooked in scientific collections for nearly 70 years — until researchers realised it wasn’t just a new species, but an entirely new family of oceanic squid no one knew existed.
A preserved squid collected from a sperm whale’s stomach in 1955 or 1956 has turned out to be…
They’re a whopping 150 million years older than dinosaurs, look like a shark, have a tail like a rat, teeth like a rabbit and sharp, venomous spines
Deep in the ocean is an ancient fish that glides along by flapping their wing-like pectoral fins instead…
Why the Movements of a U.S. Oil Company in Greenland Have Sparked Concern
The President has repeatedly stated that the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland as a matter of “national security.”…
BlackSky builds Gen-3 satellites ahead of sovereign orders, targeting one-year delivery for government intelligence customers
BlackSky Technology is producing more than 20 Gen-3 satellites, including unallocated spacecraft that could be assigned to future…
In 1958, the US moved 25 caribou to an Alaska island as emergency food for military personnel; by 2005, their herd had grown to 2,750
A herd of just 25 caribou calves released on a remote Alaskan island in 1958 to provide emergency…
Lego’s supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
OFFBEAT Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope…