20+ hour, 1+ min ago   (633+ words) A record-sized iceberg separated from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating one of the Arctic’s most unusual ice events in years. Researchers followed its path as the massive iceberg moved into open waters. A giant iceberg covering 29 square miles broke away from…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (424+ words) Buried deep beneath three continents lies evidence of a lost world far larger than anyone imagined. After analyzing tens of thousands of ancient rocks, scientists have uncovered hidden fragments of a supercontinent that once dominated Earth, fragments that were reshaping…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (633+ words) They looked almost identical, but their DNA told a story nearly 10 million years in the making. The Waorani hunters knew where to look. Wading into river systems threading through their territory in Ecuador’s Orellana and Pastaza provinces, they led a…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (682+ words) Thousands of meters below the ocean surface, researchers recorded squid they rarely get to see. The unusual footage is revealing a mysterious side of deep-sea life that few have ever witnessed. A rare bigfin squid has been recorded nearly 3,300 meters…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (862+ words) Birds appeared first. Then a forgotten lake surged back and erased vast stretches of farmland. The first clue came from the birds. Mallards flushed from tall green grasses. Coots left Vs across still water, while swallows fed on mosquitoes low…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (713+ words) Scientists turned treated fecal sludge into biochar, and a 10% dose transformed concrete strength. At a fecal-sludge treatment plant in Warangal, India, human waste is dried, heated in a low-oxygen chamber, and turned into a dark, carbon-rich powder. By then, it…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (680+ words) A new study reveals that every ocean heatwave may carry a hidden story scientists were not fully capturing before. Marine heatwaves could be exposing coastal ecosystems to much more accumulated heat than scientists previously thought. A new study shows that…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (636+ words) Scientists sent a robot into the freezing waters beneath a Greenland glacier to study a hidden environment few humans have ever seen. What the camera captured beneath the ice revealed a side of glaciers that remained largely unseen. A camera-equipped…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (705+ words) A German-built rocket has reached orbit from Norway, giving Europe’s private launch sector a milestone years in the making. For the first time, a rocket launched from Western European soil has reached orbit. Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum lifted off from northern…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (455+ words) A floating mass of trees has been quietly drifting across one of the world's largest reservoirs. Spotted by a local boater, the strange island vanished for weeks before turning up again in an entirely different spot. What could have set…...