Fungi makes a meal of hard-to-recycle plastic

Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new…

NASA satellite's elusive green lasers spotted at work

The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen…

SpaceX postpones test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket

SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built,…

The comprehensive characterization of hydrogen at ultra-high pressures

Physicists and material scientists have been trying to metallize hydrogen for many decades, but they have…

Bangladeshis pray for rain as temperatures soar

Hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims gathered on an open field in Dhaka on Monday to pray for…

New details of Tully monster revealed

For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived…

Trees in savanna areas of Cerrado produce three times more bark than species in forest areas, shows study

In tropical regions of the planet, savannas and forests often coexist in the same area and…

Tiny magnetic episodes may have large consequences on the sun

ESA’s Solar Orbiter may have taken another step towards solving the eighty-year-old mystery of why the…

Environmental toxin PCB found in deep sea trench

PCB has been banned in most countries since the 1970s, but that doesn’t mean it no…

Spain vows to block farming near threatened wetlands

Spain has vowed to block a regional plan to legalize farming near one of Europe’s largest…