I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Suddenly out of nowhere the massive school of fish parted and a great white emerged from underneath…
Awaking early one morning in late June this year I headed down to one of the local beaches…
Hybrid Hydropower Could Unlock Europe’s Next Renewable Energy Boom
There is major potential to develop hybrid renewable energy projects on existing hydropower sites, according to a new…
Scientists think at least two of Uranus’s moons — Titania and Oberon — may harbour liquid water oceans beneath their icy crusts, kept warm not by the sun but by radioactive decay deep in their interiors. If true, they join a growing list of ocean worlds in the solar system
At nearly three billion kilometres from the Sun, the moons of Uranus receive little of the solar energy…
In 2015, two men bought live sea turtles from a Papua New Guinea food market and set them free instead of letting them become food | World News
In 2015, a simple act of compassion by two men in Papua New Guinea won hearts after they…
Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day not because they are lazy but because their hunting strategy requires explosive short-burst energy — and a body that can sprint at nearly 50 kilometres per hour needs most of the day to prepare for a few seconds of effort
A cat asleep in the middle of the afternoon looks like an animal that has decided the day…
Colombia planted 880,000 trees across the streets of one city to tackle rising temperatures, and the plantation delivered localised cooling of up to 5°C in shaded areas |
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, cities around the world are searching for ways to stay cooler…
Bear Spotted in Rome at Turin Road Intersection | Local
ROME, N.Y. — A bear was seen running across Turin Road in Rome near the intersection with Potter…
The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef
Tully, B. J., Graham, E. D. & Heidelberg, J. F. The reconstruction of 2,631 draft metagenome-assembled genomes from…
Thousands evacuated as wildfire rages in southwestern France
PARIS (AP) — About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast…
Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit
In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with Varda CEO Will Bruey at the Ascend conference. They discuss how…
Raccoon gives birth inside San Francisco apartment wall, breaks into bedroom
SAN FRANCISCO — What if you’re lying in bed and hear loud scratching noises inside your walls… every…
Desert kites: 6,000 stone traps seen only from the air
RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the…