Researchers tag 42 sleeping giants in Arctic Circle – and make breathtaking discovery
Sleeping sperm whales hover several metres below the surface of the water lined up vertically like a row of toy…
Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent ‘observer’ sensation — the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, weeks after they’re back on the ground
The hardest part of a six-month space mission, according to the people who’ve flown them, isn’t the launch.…
TRACKING FAUSTO | Hurricane Fausto holds steady while remaining far east of Hawaiʻi | Local
HONOLULU (Island News) — Hurricane Fausto is holding steady as it moves across the eastern Pacific, remaining thousands…
Google discloses $94.1 billion SpaceX stake in Q2 filing
Alphabet’s Google disclosed in a quarterly filing on Thursday that it holds $94.1 billion in SpaceX stock, representing…
Iowa DNR warns of more coyote sightings statewide
Iowa reports increase in coyote sightings as cities take action DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Department of…
Northern Lights Alert: 20 States May See Aurora On Thursday Night
The aurora borealis glows in shades of green, pink, and purple above farmland during a rare appearance in…
Climate Chronicles: Could Maine slip back into drought?
A hot and dry July is taking its toll across Maine. After just recently recovering from drought conditions,…
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan
Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…
Jimothy the raccoon survived against the odds, a testament to sophisticated brains and devoted mothers
As a neuroscientist who studies raccoon and rats, I see the viral story of Jimothy the raccoon as…
FCC approves launch of satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a satellite launch on Thursday to test a reflector designed to…
Water conservation urged as most of North Carolina remains in drought despite rain: NCDEQ
RALEIGH, N.C. (WLOS) — Even amid recent rain that has brought flash flooding to parts of North Carolina,…
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the plume images for camera errors
When Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, scientists expected its moon Io to be cold, battered…