Urban trees aren’t just nice, scientists say — they’re mandatory
They tower overhead and sway in the wind and often teem with squawking birds, yet trees are easy…
Astronomers Denounce Elon Musk-Led Plan to Pollute Earth’s Orbit With 1.7 Million Satellites
European astronomers on Wednesday urged the US Federal Communications Commission to block a plan led by SpaceX CEO…
Fisherman spots humpback floating offshore before 40-foot whale washes up on New York beach
In late June, residents of Montauk, New York, were met with the sight of a dead humpback whale…
Directly probing the carrier transfer length in 2D-material transistors
In response to the increasing needs of artificial intelligence computations and rising requirements in data centres and mobile…
How Bolivia’s breakthrough in jaguar rehabilitation could bring the big cat back from the brink | Conservation
A tentative paw emerged from a steel cage on to the sandy riverbed deep in the Bolivian rainforest.…
Musk Calls Reporting on SpaceX Prototype AI Device ‘Utterly False’
Topline SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called a recent report the company showed investors a prototype handheld, iPhone-like device…
This Strange New Magnet Could Transform Future Electronics
An illustration of the atomic structure of altermagnets. Neighboring atoms are rotated and their magnetic spins are flipped.…
Como Zoo picks name Cusi for “extremely active” baby sloth
The Como Zoo says it has picked the name for its baby Hoffman’s two-toed sloth. Cusi (pronounced Koo-see)…
Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity
Plant materials and growth conditions The hot1 mutant was isolated from an ethyl methanesulfonate-mutagenized M2 population of the…
Don’t go chasing waterfalls: NC drought threatens wildlife, plants and waterfalls down to a trickle
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — Several waterfalls in Fayetteville have run dry as an unrelenting heat wave and drought…
In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…
Scientists create quantum sound device that could transform communications
Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates tiny sound-like particles called phonons at…