The Southern Ocean may be Earth’s safest place to remove carbon from the atmosphere, scientists find |
Left/Southern Ocean/Right/Southern Ocean on map/Image: AI Generated As the world searches for ways to remove…
Category: Science
After decades of drought, water is returning to the south of the Sahara Desert as ancient farming techniques and the Great Green Wall breathe new life into the Sahel |
Communities dig water-harvesting pits to restore degraded land and improve soil moisture in the Sahel.…
Tiny reef fish flourished beside islands filled with seabirds; where rats removed the birds, the entire underwater food chain took another route
Ecosystems work with each other no matter how far or disconnected they are. Animals and…
Washington teenager Lakshmi Agrawal made a jute-waste sponge for salmon-killing tyre pollution; after it removed up to 80% in lab tests, she won $75,000
Lakshmi Agrawal (Image Credit: Society for Science) An 18-year-old student from Bellevue, Washington, has turned…
Why the dinosaurs disappeared: The asteroid that ended their reign struck Earth with a force of around 100 million megatons |
For more than 160 million years, dinosaurs dominated life on Earth. They survived shifting continents,…
In 1898, a mysterious boat moved without a captain and left New York crowds speechless until Nikola Tesla revealed his secret |
In the autumn of 1898, visitors at Madison Square Garden witnessed something that looked impossible.…
Elon Musk’s previous Starships exploded or broke apart after splashdown; Flight 13 landed so gently that the 171-foot spacecraft remained afloat in the Indian Ocean for five days
A rocket has been floating on the surface of the Indian Ocean for the past…
Physicists reveal why these tiny worms stack their poop into delicate towers that seem to defy gravity |
Most animals leave behind waste that quickly disappears into the landscape. But along Europe’s sandy…
Humans may not be the only primates with geometric intuition as monkeys recognise shapes in remarkably similar ways, study finds |
For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human intelligence: our ability to recognise geometric…
Quote of the day by Jane Goodall: Why “Even that great scientist Albert Einstein sustained a mystical outlook on life” reminds us that wonder and humility go hand in hand |
Science has answered questions that once seemed impossible from explaining how galaxies evolve to revealing…