The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has beenContinue Reading
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A new light system developed by Australian scientists to mimic ocean camouflageContinue Reading
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter NASA has completed the twin satellites it will launch next year to study the solar wind and its impact on Earth. The TandemContinue Reading
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that appeared not to makeContinue Reading
An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water hose at a zoo in Germany, in what scientists described as a “sophisticated behaviour” that shows “remarkable skill”. Mary was captured on camera at Berlin Zoo methodically washing her body with the hose, using her limbs and trunk toContinue Reading
Pesto, the avian answer to the viral hippo Moo Deng, has started to molt. The chick, who lives at Australia’s SEA Life Melbourne Aquarium, has started to fledge. In a kind of bird puberty, Pesto is losing his baby feathers and adult feathers are taking their place. While king penguinContinue Reading
Scientists might have found a new volcano, but unless you’re a fish, it probably doesn’t pose much danger. Working off the coast of western and northern Alaska, the Coast Guard Cutter Healy’s research teams, including members from the National Science Foundation, the University of New Hampshire, and the National OceanicContinue Reading
Hoping to collect data on the Southern Ocean’s Ross Sea, scientists deployed Marlin, an autonomous underwater vehicle, two years ago. However, it got stuck under an ice shelf. Not all was lost as the robot dove and took measurements in the water. But, now that its data has been analyzed,Continue Reading
An Asian elephant has been dubbed the “queen of showering” after it was filmed washing itself with a hose in a German zoo, demonstrating “remarkable skill”, according to stunned scientists. Mary was seen on camera at Berlin Zoo using her trunk to methodically wash her body with a hose, liftingContinue Reading
Scientists have spotted a deep-sea “ghost” white shark with a rare genetic disorder, shedding light on how such abnormalities affect endangered marine species living near the sea floor. They caught the critically endangered angular rough shark, Oxynotus centrina, with abnormal colouration off Albania’s coast. The angular rough shark is typicallyContinue Reading
