
NPR - 1 day 10 hours ago
SpaceX's mammoth rocket, Starship, reached orbit for the first time on Monday. The mission was shorter than expected, but SpaceX completed its objectives as it develops the world's largest rocket.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 20 hours ago
People have been consistently battling bandicoots for 150 years, although the reasons for our dislike of these marsupials have changed over the years, according to new research. The post Humans have maligned bandicoots for decades, making them more vulnerable to extinction appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Australian Geographic - 1 day 21 hours ago
Meet the team championing the peatlands of Southwest Australia. The post For peat’s sake appeared first on Australian Geographic .

PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours ago
The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles. The move reverses policies meant to increase fuel efficiency to encourage greater use of electric vehicles. The boost for gasoline-powered vehicles comes as the war in Iran continues to drive up oil prices. Amna Nawaz discussed the changes with David Shepardson of Reuters. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours ago
Cleanup efforts are underway after a powerful nor'easter battered parts of the East Coast, bringing dangerous waves, flooding and damaging winds from New England to New Jersey. The storm also knocked out power for many. Jeffrey Brown reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

The Atlantic - 2 days 10 hours ago
Storms driven by El Ni o are pulling chunks of coast away.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 12 hours ago
Your average frog loves a good meaty fly. But to this amphibian predator, a stationary fly might not register as something worth nabbing, if it is seen at all. "[A frog] will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving," wrote the authors of a 1959 paper in Proceedings of the IRE […] The post The Frog and the Fly appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Science Daily - 2 days 14 hours ago
A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Urolithin A helped stiff heart tissue relax and reduced scarring and abnormal enlargement. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue.