Sophie Adenot, 2nd French Woman in Space: Watch the Launch Live with Futura
Sophie Adenot, 2nd French Woman in Space: Watch the Launch Live with Futura – Futura-Sciences February 19, 2026…
New Southern Resident orca calf spotted in L pod
There’s a new addition in the Salish Sea. The Center for Whale Research spotted a new Southern Resident…
Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests
Galloway, J. N. et al. Transformation of the nitrogen cycle: recent trends, questions, and potential solutions. Science 320,…
A milestone achievement in our journey to carbon negative
In 2020, Microsoft announced a moonshot commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 — accelerating work across our…
Meet Chrysalis, the 36 Mile Starship Built to Carry 1,000 Humans Away From Earth… Forever
It would take four centuries to reach its destination. It would carry 2,400 people who would never see…
The strange true story of the python that swallowed a human whole
First, the good news: snakes rarely eat humans. But it does happen and Indonesia seems to be a…
New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a promising option for cleaner, more sustainable energy storage. Researchers at the University…
‘There has to be glitter’: can the Rio carnival give up its love of beach-polluting microplastics? | Oceans
Whether it is embellishing elaborate costumes, delicately applied as eye makeup, or smeared across bare skin, glitter is…
NASA’s next great space telescope is getting ready for launch
Image: NASA As NASA moves deeper into a new era of space-based astronomy, another flagship observatory is quietly…
Olympic athletes are pretty fast, but are they faster than a cheetah?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane! Nope — it’s a luge racer speeding down an ice track at…
Ancient Giant Shark Discovery Rewrites History
An artist’s impression of the massive shark that lived 115 million years ago (Credit: Polyanna von Knorring, Swedish…
Water main relocation planned on Commonwealth Avenue ahead of flood mitigation work
A water main relocation project is coming to a stretch of Commonwealth Avenue in and around Del Ray,…