The World Economic Forum lists biodiversity loss as a global threat. Vox environmental reporter Benji Jones joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss the problem of lost species including one call… [+267 chars]
Astronomers have captured the sharpest yet image of R136a1, the largest known star. R136a1 is located at a distance of 160,000 light years, in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula, which is in the Large… [+1904 chars]
The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 meters in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly… [+5048 chars]
Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hol… [+5288 chars]
Many mammals have a sweet tooth, but birds lost their sweet receptor during evolution. Although hummingbirds and songbirds independently repurposed their savory receptor to sense sugars, how other bi… [+4012 chars]
A new image produced by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details of Stephan's Quintet, the very first compact galaxy group ever discovered that was featured in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderf… [+8048 chars]
Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) P… [+4377 chars]
Newswise — Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party. Their rates of evolution and diversity started… [+5420 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Anyone who has ever had a pesky pet hair stuck to their clothes can sympathize with the situation NASA's Perseverance Mar… [+2036 chars]
Kagome’s are a material whose structure is named after a traditional Japanese basket weaving technique. The weaving creates a pattern of hexagons bordered by triangles and vice versa. In Kagome metal… [+2949 chars]
Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed some light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2… [+3571 chars]
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made progress in the preparation of mixture-based quarter-wave plate laser beam splitter (… [+2874 chars]
