Science & Health
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Hawks’ Forbidden Love Results In A Rare Hybrid
She was a common black hawk. He was a red-shouldered hawk. They weren’t in the same genus, let alone the same species, and they normally don’t even live in the same part of the continent. But in a strange twist of fate, none of that mattered: It was love at first screech.
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Earth-Spanning Telescope Takes Unprecedented Image Of Black Hole Spewing Radiation
A worldwide network of telescopes has produced an image of a jet of radio waves appearing to blast out from the centre of a supermassive black hole at over 15 times the speed of light.
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Radiation Around Chernobyl Is 16 Times Higher Than Normal After Forest Fires
Fighting forest fires inside Chernobyl’s dreaded exclusion zone sounds awful, but that’s exactly what nearly 150 emergency responders had to contend with this past weekend, as a pair of blazes broke out near the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
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Discovery Of Living Microbes Deep Beneath The Seafloor Offers Hope For Life On Mars
Surprising quantities of bacteria have been found living in clay-rich rocks under the Pacific seafloor. The discovery raises the possibility of equally resilient microbes living deep beneath the surface of Mars.