Melbourne began pumping its sewage onto paddocks west of the city in 1897. The 10,500-hectare site that grew out of that arrangement now treats around 500 megaliters a day and holds close to 300 bird species, some of them flying in from Siberia, on a site - Space Daily
Where a century of treated sewage has accidentally created one of Australia's most biodiverse wetlands, drawing migrator...
Earth's moon could have formed in just 5 hours after giant impact - Space
One day in history about 4.5 billion years ago was a dramatic one for Earth, potentially giving our planet an instant mo...
Pair of white dwarfs locked in 6-minute orbit might one day be observed by gravitational waves - Phys.org
Current gravitational-wave observatories aren't sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. The...
Quantum Computers Just Passed a Test That Classical Computers Fundamentally Can't - ScienceAlert
Quantum computers are supposed to have abilities far beyond conventional ones, but verifying that they actually do is su...
How To Talk To A Machine Without Anthropomorphising It - Hackaday
LLMs remain a divisive topic in these times. Perhaps we all know someone who’s become over-infatuated with their new r...
Galaxies tangled in science and spirit photo of the day for Sept. 7, 2026 - Space
"Astronomy is not just science or spirit; it's both at the same time."...
Rare pulsar unleashes 114 giant pulses in a single hour - Phys.org
Astronomers have detected extreme, never-before-seen behavior from a rare kind of pulsar and stumbled on a surprising li...
Do black holes have hidden hair? Scientists find a new way to check - Phys.org
When two black holes crash together and merge, the newly formed black hole rings like a bell, sending out gravitational ...
The future of Earth observation: Private satellites and AI bring benefits but also pose risks - Space
Observing Earth from orbit is an increasingly private affair....
A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia's own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe swit - Space Daily
Two February 1961 Sandia Corporation reports, released under a Freedom of Information Act request in 2021, one for the f...
Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension - WIRED
Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a “dark dimension”...
200 million evenly spaced termite mounds cover a region of northeastern Brazil roughly the size of Great Britain — some are 4,000 years old, and they aren't nests at all but dirt excavated from a vast network of tunnels hidden underneath - Space Daily
Beneath a gridded landscape of 200 million earthen cones lies evidence of termite engineering so vast and ancient that h...
Greenland’s Wayward Ice Island Just Smashed Into Joe Island—and Survived - Gizmodo
The massive slab of ice broke off from one of Greenland's largest glaciers and has been drifting away since....
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It. - WIRED
The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial ...
Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest kn - The Times of India
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Researchers have located the planet's largest known octopus nursery deep off the Californi...
Three quantum phases in chromium-based material hint at a spin-triplet superconductor - Phys.org
Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without electrical resistance when cooled below a specific critic...
Scientists discover nearly 1 billion tons of water locked inside Utah's rocky glaciers, using gravity mea - The Times of India
US News: At first glance, Utah's rocky mountain slopes may look completely dry, with loose stones and boulders covering ...
Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion year - Space Daily
The 2025 estimate depended on uncertain motions and neighbouring galaxies. A 2026 follow-up put the merger probability h...
Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north - Space Daily
Saturn's symmetry breaks: a ten-sided storm now mirrors the planet's legendary hexagon, suggesting these geometric puzzl...
An algorithm-guided survey of eight caves in southwest Ireland found art dated to about 15,000 years ago, pushing known human presence on the island roughly 5,000 years earlier than previously thought - Space Daily
Artificial intelligence led archaeologists to caves in Ireland where they discovered art suggesting humans arrived thous...
Scientists Find a Fungus That Could Protect The Body From Radiation - sciencealert.com
Mold isn't typically something you want growing inside your body....
Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason - Science Daily
East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s ...
Advanced optical imaging reveals hidden activity in blood immune cells - Phys.org
A routine blood sample contains a diverse collection of immune cells that can reveal important clues about health and di...
Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be - Space Daily
Webb spectra suggest Neptune’s inner moons were rebuilt from destroyed icy interiors, while separate evidence casts ec...