SScience Read More Bonobos can imagine and pretend, study finds by staging a tea partyFebruary 5, 2026 Can animals play pretend? It took a tea party with a bonobo to find out. In a set…
EEnvironment Read More New report confirms 2025 was Hawai‘i’s second driest, warmest year on record : Maui NowFebruary 5, 2026 Hawai‘i experienced its second driest year in more than a century. Alongside drought, the state saw persistently above-average…
SSpace Read More NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers MissionsFebruary 5, 2026 Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental…
WWildlife Read More Industry reps, hunters and others start review of world’s longest pronghorn migrationFebruary 5, 2026 PINEDALE—Eleven folks sat in a semicircle stretching out from Robb Slaughter, who chaired a pronghorn migration-focused working group…
SScience Read More Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistorFebruary 5, 2026 Inbar, A. et al. The quantum twisting microscope. Nature 614, 682–687 (2023). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar …
EEnvironment Read More The Arctic Just Got a Predictable Future, Thanks to This New ModelFebruary 5, 2026 This breakthrough could improve early warnings, helping to track ice loss and its far-reaching consequences on global climate,…
SSpace Read More Martian meteorite that fell to Earth is full of ancient water, new scans revealFebruary 5, 2026 Many tiny specks of ancient water are locked within one of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorites…
WWildlife Read More Iowa DNR say bobcat sighting is ‘wildlife success story’February 5, 2026 Don’t be alarmed if you spot a bobcat in your backyard this month.Previous video above, from 2025: Bobcat…
SScience Read More Scientists Tried Drilling Into Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ But the Ice Had Other PlansFebruary 5, 2026 One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep…
EEnvironment Read More Buc-ee’s withdraws application from Palmer LakeFebruary 5, 2026 Updated: 5:05 p.m. There will be no Buc-ee’s on Monument Hill, at least as far as Palmer Lake…
SSpace Read More JWST Discovers A Massive ‘Red Potato’ Galaxy With No Star FormationFebruary 5, 2026 An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive…
PPhysics Read More Daring Theory Challenges the Black Hole’s Reign Over the Milky Way’s CoreFebruary 5, 2026 Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic Center—the heart of the Milky Way—although they’re fairly certain that…