Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms | Amazon rainforest
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since records began, new government data shows.…
Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery…
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude \ Anthropic
Quantum computers will need carefully designed circuits to run useful algorithms on limited hardware. We gave Claude plain-language…
Could a whale swallow a human, ‘Whalefall’ style?
In the new film “Whalefall,” a scuba diver has a very bad day. On what should be a…
Astronomers discover first-ever green star
Astronomers analyzing white dwarf stars have for the first time found a star that would appear green to…
I spent a year visiting ‘world-class’ cities. Here’s how Canada compares on the global stage
Justin McElroy is a Vancouver-based journalist and author of the new book Searching for the Best Place on…
On this day in space! Oct. 16, 1975: NASA launches the 1st-ever GOES weather satellite to watch Earth from space
On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite! GOES-A was the first in a series…
A Radio Phoenix Beyond the Zone of Avoidance
We’ve gotta give credit to space scientists. They come up with great names for things, probably because so…
Public hearing set on proposed bear-feeding rule for Buncombe County
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — After continued reports of people feeding and encountering black bears in the area, North…
Palm-leaf manuscripts hold hidden marks of how scribes prepared them, X-rays show
For centuries, people across South and Southeast Asia wrote religious texts, laws, literature and science on palm leaves.…
Sharks, rays and wobbegongs: South Australian algal bloom killed more than 8,000 creatures | Endangered species
More than 8,000 sharks and rays died during South Australia’s toxic algal bloom, the largest known mass mortality…
UK risks losing key role in European space industry over satellite contract, says Airbus boss | Airbus
The boss of Airbus has told Andy Burnham that choosing its US rival Lockheed Martin to manufacture military…