Conservation wins are often told as stories about a single beloved animal coming back from the edge. A recent paper from ecologists in China warns that this narrow focus can quietly damage the very ecosystems those animals need.
The team’s…

Conservation wins are often told as stories about a single beloved animal coming back from the edge. A recent paper from ecologists in China warns that this narrow focus can quietly damage the very ecosystems those animals need.
The team’s…

Numerous stories have been written about the growing swarm of Starlink satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) over the past few years, as astronomers grow increasingly worried about the crafts’ impact on their observation equipment. Launched…

By placing ultra-sensitive quantum spin sensors in orbit, SQUIRE gains orders-of-magnitude improvements in detecting exotic physics signals.
This approach lays the groundwork for a global and interplanetary sensing system that could reveal hidden…

In the mid-1700s, Denmark tried to capture its natural world in ink and copper. Artists and scholars spent more than a century crafting Flora Danica, a massive catalog of plants meant to guide medicine and trade. Today, the country has taken on a…

The celebrity comet 3I/ATLAS is showing itself out of our solar system for good — but not before the cosmic paparazzi at Earth’s space agencies snap some of the clearest photos of it yet.
Discovered in late June and confirmed to be the third…

From muscle fibers to mental grit, here’s the science behind why some bodies can endure ultramarathons, while others hit the wall far sooner.
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Ultramarathons sit at the far edge of what the human body can endure….

They identified 47 key volatiles and assessed their sensory contributions using OAV, ACI, and omission tests. Non-targeted metabolomics further revealed key flavonoids responsible for taste, offering new insights into…