Despite the drought, don’t give up on our native plants | Plants
Richard Eltringham (Letters, 5 August) argues that climate change necessitates switching to a planting palette of drought-tolerant non-native…
Wednesday brings a solar eclipse by day, Perseid meteors by night
This Wednesday will be a busy one for skywatchers, with celestial events during both the day and night.…
How gravitational waves transformed our universe
Two black holes spiral around each other, drawing closer to a merger, in this illustration of the system…
Have you seen a sick fox in Malvern? Here’s what to do – NBC10 Philadelphia
Residents in Malvern, Chester County, have reported seeing foxes with mange, prompting reminders to keep a safe distance…
In 2016, Biologists at Rutgers University discovered that the globe skimmer dragonfly is the world’s longest-distance flying insect
In March 2016, researchers identified the globe skimmer dragonfly, Pantala flavescens, as the world’s longest-distance flying insect. Led…
Brazil lost the Spix’s macaw from the wild for more than 20 years, then conservationists released captive-bred birds back into the Caatinga | World News
Image(s): Left/An 1878 painting of an adult by Joseph Smit/Right/Wikipedia For more than two decades, the Spix’s macaw…
NASA Telescopes Create Colorful ‘Craft’ From Nearby Nebula
Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a…
Spectroscopy of Wigner crystal polarons in an atomically thin semiconductor
Device fabrication The flakes used for device fabrication were mechanically exfoliated from bulk crystals (HQ Graphene, WSe2, NIMS…
Rare endangered Indonesian babirusa’piglet born at Chester Zoo
Cheshire A local Manchester run club is holding two special running routes to see the total eclipse Danny…
Ant Colonies Pulse Like a Physical System, And Scientists Are Beginning to Understand What Triggers Them : ScienceAlert
An ant nest can appear to be a jumble of tiny bodies moving independently. But every so often,…
Microplastics trigger new ocean risk: could they speed up global warming?
Microplastics trigger new ocean risk: could they speed up global warming? – Futura-Sciences August 11, 2026 5 min…
On this day in space! Aug. 11, 1960: 1st object successfully recovered from orbit
On Aug. 11, 1960, part of the Discoverer 13 satellite became the first human-made object to be recovered…