Tonnes of pumice washing up on Australian and New Zealand beaches from underwater volcano
Rafts of pumice have been washing up on Tasmanian beaches since March 2014, when Dr. Rebecca Carey started receiving phone calls and emails from...
More extremely hot and dry summers in Northern Countries, scientists warn
Changes in the Arctic caused by human-induced global warming will lead to countries in the Northern hemisphere's mid-latitudes having longer periods of extreme heat...
Bumblebees prefer road-facing hedgerows to crop facing ones, due to pesticides
Pesticides and fertilisers are making bumblebees increasingly opt for the more abundant flowers on road-facing hedgerows, while leaving the poor pickings on the crop-facing...
Solar eclipse on March 20 with Supermoon means a Supermoon Eclipse
On March 20th there will be a solar eclipse and also a Supermoon, which is called a Supermoon Eclipse. A Supermoon is when the...
Rosetta desperately signaling Philae lander for signs of life
The Rosetta spacecraft has seven more days of sending signals to the Philae robot lander to determine whether it is still alive. After March...
Massive underwater volcano spewing pumice on Australian and New Zealand beaches
An international team of scientists is about to board a ship carrying two underwater robots called ‘Sentry’ and ‘Jason’ to learn more about a...
Massive solar flare filmed by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
This year’s most massive solar flare so far, with the equivalent energy of 100 megaton atomic bombs, was captured on video by NASA’s Solar...
NASA launches 4 spacecraft to study Earth’s and Sun’s magnetic field interactions
At 10:44 EDT on Thursday, NASA launched four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft to study a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection – a process thought to trigger...
Large Hadron Collider, now a much mightier beast, soon to wake up again
The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, is now 65% more powerful than it was two years ago, and will be...
Rosetta’s Philae lander may wake up, say European Space Agency scientists
The Philae lander, which has been in hibernation on the dark side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has not had enough juice in its solar-powered batteries...