When 131 stray cats were cleared from Japan’s remote Ogasawara Islands, no one expected to witness an ecological phenomenon. In just three years, a critically endangered pigeon multiplied its numbers ...

Deep inside a Spanish cave, an unusual accumulation has puzzled researchers for years. Carefully placed remains, repeated over an exceptionally long period, suggest that Neanderthals maintained a ...

For new readers, here’s a brief overview. The Polar Vortex is a large scale winter circulation over the Northern Hemisphere. Imagine it as a spinning wall of wind above the polar regions, stretching ...

To track submarines, the Royal Navy is turning to Proteus, an imposing unmanned helicopter developed by Leonardo. The aircraft, which has just completed its first test flight, is set to become a key ...

“Journalism leads to everything, provided you leave it,” said journalist, writer and academician Jules Janin (1804–1874). I still haven’t crossed that threshold: I obtained my press card in 1988 and, ...

In Houchengzui, researchers are busy excavating a Neolithic "stone city" covering approximately 1.38 million square meters. © DS, IA ChatGPT ...

Beyond chemistry, electricity plays a central role. Electrostatic forces help lift fine dust into Mars’s atmosphere, a critical step in the formation of the planet-wide dust storms that occur every ...

Consumer Reports has found that PHEVs driven primarily in gas mode can use 30–40% more fuel than their EPA numbers suggest. The vehicles perform exactly as designed — but only under the conditions the ...

A battery that could keep running for millennia sounds like science fiction. It isn’t. In 2024, researchers at the University of Bristol, working with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, revealed a ...

Anyone who has ever tried to call a cat knows how frustrating it can be when the animal doesn’t respond, as if your voice has simply faded into the background. New research from a team of French ...

At an age when most teenagers are finishing high school, Laurent Simons has already earned a doctoral degree in quantum physics — a milestone that has captured attention from labs and universities ...

The polar jet stream is a high altitude air current, flowing at elevations between 8 and 12 kilometers, that moves at very high speeds across the Northern Hemisphere. Its role is to separate cold air ...