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The electrically charged gas drifting between the stars rings at a pitch between a few hundred and a few thousand hertz, comfortably inside the range of human hearing, which is why NASA engineers can feed a recording straight from Voyager 1 into an ordinary loudspeaker and listen to interstellar space
29+ min ago (24+ words) The universe isn't silent after all—a lone spacecraft is broadcasting the eerie hum of interstellar space directly into human hearing range....
Since 2021, Guam power crews have collected electrocuted brown tree snakes for USGS biologists after outages, the invader's long body bridging two live wires at once and turning a climbing animal into the missing piece of an electrical circuit
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (434+ words) An invasive snake species is literally short-circuiting Guam's entire electrical system, and scientists are turning dead animals into a detailed intelligence operation....
Wild blonde capuchin monkeys — an endangered species in Brazil's dry Caatinga forest already known for using sticks to fish termites — were filmed cracking food open with stones, the first record of stone tool use in this species anywhere
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (103+ words) In Brazil's threatened dry forests, researchers documented stone-tool use in blonde capuchins for the first time, expanding what we thought possible for this critically endangered species....
Microbes are living at pH 12 — roughly the alkalinity of bleach — inside mud volcanoes on the Mariana forearc, and there are so few of them that DNA testing fails to find them at all; researchers had to identify them by the fats they left behind
19+ hour, 17+ min ago (43+ words) Deep in the Mariana forearc, the stretch of seafloor west of the Mariana Trench, mud volcanoes vent fluid so alkaline it sits close to pH 12, roughly the...
On Venus, the atmosphere presses down with 92 times Earth’s sea-level pressure—the equivalent of standing about 900 metres beneath the ocean—while the surface remains near 465°C, hot enough to keep lead permanently molten.
22+ hour, 57+ min ago (1061+ words) Venus combines ocean-depth pressure with furnace heat, but its supercritical carbon-dioxide atmosphere is stranger than either comparison suggests....
Sea sponges pushed through a fine mesh separate into individual cells that then crawl back together over hours and reassemble into a functioning sponge, an extreme case of whole-body regeneration that biologists have watched under microscopes since 1907
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (760+ words) Force a living sea sponge through a fine mesh and it separates into single cells. Hours later those cells crawl back together and rebuild a functioning sponge — a trick, first demonstrated in 1907, that appears to be unique in the animal…...
A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (27+ words) The team from a Spanish marine research NGO called Condrik Tenerife had spent the day two kilometres off the west coast of the island, on their research...
Berlin's nightingales turn up their volume as traffic noise rises: researchers found males in noisier territories sang louder, with rush-hour birds even singing louder on weekday mornings than on quieter weekend mornings
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (543+ words) Urban noise is reshaping how animals communicate, with Berlin's nightingales demonstrating that evolution doesn't wait for generations—it happens in real time. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Walk through a European city in spring and you may hear it before…...
On the night of 27 August 2026 the Earth's shadow will slide across a full Moon and turn it copper for more than an hour, a partial lunar eclipse visible from the Americas without any equipment except a clear sky
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (28+ words) Tomorrow night, weather permitting, the full Moon over the Americas is going to do something it will not do again for more than two years. Beginning in the...
China's water-hunting Moon mission was hours from launch on Sunday when the countdown stopped — the next window may not come until 2027
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (571+ words) A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we…...