Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
The solar arrays at the Kubuqi Desert, 2024 – credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory. Renewable energy sources like solar…
The James Webb Appears to Have Spotted a “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter
Astronomers say NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe’s first “dark stars,” primordial bodies of…
Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John…
This Harvard Scientist Is Changing the Future of Genetic Diseases
As a young professor of chemistry at Harvard in the 2000s, David Liu was trying to accelerate evolution.…
Budgie Steps up To Take Care of His 5 Baby Birds After Mom Decides She Needs a Break
Having a baby changes everything, and there’s no sugarcoating the fact that it’s an exhausting, challenging, and sometimes…
Scientists Find Rare ‘Barbie-Pink’ Animal Living In Deep Underwater Canyon
A few months ago, scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute sent a remotely operated vehicle called ROV SuBastian…
Two greenish comets are streaking across the night sky this month
Two greenish-hued comets are swinging through the inner solar system this fall, offering a rare chance to spot…
Why Can’t We Reach Absolute Zero?
While most of the world measures temperatures in Celsius and the United States clings to Fahrenheit as if…
Only four people in Australia have been diagnosed with rare genetic disease CHOPS
Isla Steed is your fairly typical teenager, according to her mum. The 14-year-old is “a stubborn little person”…
Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the…