Researchers find ‘priority zones’ for yellow fever vaccination of golden lion tamarins
Golden lion tamarins, an endangered species of monkey endemic to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, are susceptible to yellow…
For all its serene blue beauty from afar, Uranus hides a detail that would make a visitor recoil: its cloud tops are laced with hydrogen sulfide, the very gas that gives rotten eggs their stench, so Uranus literally reeks
Picture Uranus the way the Voyager cameras showed it. A smooth, nearly featureless ball the color of shallow…
Japan earthquake survivors battle heat stroke in sweltering conditions as death toll rises
The death toll from a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Japan has reached 34, with 9,000 people displaced across the…
Mercury’s Weak Magnetic Field Periodically Traps Solar Wind
The planet Mercury is the first planet from the Sun but also one shrouded in mystery. This is…
At about 19 kilometres up the air pressure falls low enough that water boils at human body temperature, so an unprotected person there would feel the saliva on their tongue turn to vapour, which is why aircrew above that altitude wear sealed pressure suits rather than an oxygen mask
At sea level, an oxygen mask and a pressure suit can look like two versions of the same…
A Writer Faces Nature’s Pesky Critters with Trapper Ron
The more you know … I also learned that Baker has a complicated relationship with skunks. “I’ve been…
Scientists discover 2 new ‘ghost’ lineages that contributed DNA to modern humans
Traces of two “ghost lineages” of extinct human populations lie hidden within our genome, a new study reveals.…
Child & Family Service to bless new Hilo location : Big Island Now
July 30, 2026, 1:00 AM HST Child & Family Service, Hawaiʻi’s family-centered, full-service nonprofit, will bless its new…
Olympus Mons stands nearly three times the height of Everest, yet standing at its base you would not see a mountain at all, because its slopes rise so gently across roughly 600 kilometres that the summit sits well beyond the Martian horizon and the ground at your feet looks almost flat
If you approached Olympus Mons from the Martian plains, the first thing you met might not be a…
Jimothy the Raccoon’s Popularity Undermines the Right to Own Him
Just as a wild Seattle raccoon with a shortened spine nicknamed Jimothy became the internet’s latest obsession, the…
Earth’s Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today’s World : ScienceAlert
For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and…
Leaking tents and ‘substandard’ gear given to sub-Antarctic expeditioners
The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) says there are “lessons to be learnt” after internal documents revealed expeditioners were…