The peregrine falcon, the world’s fastest bird, is thriving again in North America – for nowMIKE WALKER/Alamy Feather TrailsSophie A. H. Osborn (Chelsea Green) Wildlife biologist Sophie Osborn has spent a career working with birds that have been a feather’s breadth...
Lord Howe IslandNeal Haddaway Poking out of the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand is a crooked, crescent-shaped volcanic remnant called Lord Howe Island. The rocky isle, which is 10 kilometres long and 2 kilometres across at its widest,...
Although previous studies have found hydrogen and oxygen in moon minerals – implying the presence of water – whole molecules of H2O have never been detected in lunar rock until now Source link...
Short-lived neutron stars may explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and gamma ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe Source link...
The Hidden Ways Extreme Heat Disrupts InfrastructureScorching temperatures are further burdening an already-troubled infrastructure system across much of the U.S. in ways people are still learning to recognizeBy Meghan Bartels Infrastructure across the U.S. is struggling under the climate crisis....
Some Trees ‘Hold Their Breath’ During WildfiresWhen wildfire smoke is in the air some trees essentially shut their windows and doors and hold their breathBy Delphine Farmer, Mj Riches & The Conversation USGiant Sequoia trees are shrouded in a yellow...
The carbon-fluorine bonds in “forever chemicals” make them hard to destroyYurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock Some “forever chemicals” – so named because of how difficult they are to break down – can be destroyed using light shining through quantum dots. This method could...
When galaxy clusters collided, the dark matter (blue) sailed ahead of the normal matter (orange)W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko When two enormous clusters of galaxies collided billions of years ago, their dark matter shot right out of them, leaving behind the...
Flat rocks may not deliver the most dramatic splashJulian Brooks/Alamy When you want to find a rock that will make the biggest possible splash, you might do well looking for one that is ever so slightly curved. This will produce...
Queshque glacier in Peru is retreating because of global heatingEmilio Mateo/Aspen Global Change Institute Mountain glaciers in the Andes are almost certainly the smallest they have been for at least 130,000 years, a study of rocks exposed by the melting...
