
Australian Geographic - 1 day 21 hours ago
One of Australia's longest-running wildlife monitoring projects has been documenting the arrival of migratory pigeons to a north Queensland island for more than six decades. The post The PIP pilgrimage appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 18 min ago
China's hypergravity machine is the first of its kind, seeing futures that would otherwise stay invisible.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 1 hour ago
Intrepid meteorologist spent Dennis "Tink" Bell spent 66 years trapped in ice. Scientists just found his body.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 2 hours ago
Last August, a reader alerted the editor of a medical journal to a recent case report "riddled with irreconcilable contradictions, medically impossible claims, fictional terminology, and ethical lapses." The paper, about a woman who allegedly suffered an aortic aneurysm rupture three days after giving birth, stated that written "informed consent was obtained from the patient … Continue reading Journal tags impossible' case report with short erratum...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 3 hours ago
Work is a lot of work. Most of us have to work for about half of our waking hours for about half of our lives. And they're mostly not easy hours. Work can be full of conflicts, confusion, drama, trauma, and awkwardness. I started writing a work advice column a year ago for Slate to […] The post Five Pieces of Work Advice from an Agony Aunt appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Smithsonian - 2 days 4 hours ago
Wild fringe-lipped bats spend just one-tenth of the night in flight, but they can precisely snatch a calling frog and nab prey that rivals their own size...

Newser - 2 days 4 hours ago
A long-vanished giant of the ancient world is being digitally reconstructed for modern eyes, block by painstaking block. The New York Times reports on the Pharos Project , a French- and Egyptian-led effort to virtually rebuild the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the 460-foot beacon that once rivaled the Great Pyramid in height...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 5 hours ago
Artemis, depending on whom you ask, is NASA's bid to reclaim its heritage, to resume the business of human exploration, to take astronauts to the moon and beyond and win what's been billed by some U.S. politicians as the "new space race" with China . Artemis II , the project's first circumlunar test mission with a crew, is now preparing for launch, perhaps in March. If it succeeds, and if NASA can deliver on an 18 December executive order from the Trump administration , Artemis...

Newser - 2 days 13 hours ago
Los Angeles County just got a visitor it hasn't seen in more than 100 years: a wild gray wolf. State wildlife officials say a 3-year-old female, tagged BEY03F and wearing a GPS collar, crossed into the mountains north of Santa Clarita around 6am Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Earlier...