Butterfly thieves handed $200,000 fine in Sri Lanka
An Italian father and his son have been fined 60 million Sri Lankan rupees ($200,000; £150,000) for trying to smuggle hundreds of endemic insects – including 92 species of butterflies…
An Italian father and his son have been fined 60 million Sri Lankan rupees ($200,000; £150,000) for trying to smuggle hundreds of endemic insects – including 92 species of butterflies…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a tiny population of ~50 remained clinging…
A new enzyme-inspired, small-molecule catalyst developed at the University of Illinois holds alcohols and alkenes in just the right proximity and position to join into ethers, key functional components of…
Credit: Science Bulletin (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.06.003 In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that the velocities of galaxies in the Coma Cluster were too high to be maintained solely…
Top: Raw matrix of 𝛾-ray energies and excitation energies following 𝛽 decay of 140Cs. The two diagonal projections for excitation energies 4.0–4.4 MeV are shown as insets together with their fits.…
Part of a mountain and glacier alongside Dickson Fjord in Greenland in August 2023 (left), and the same spot after a landslide in September 2023Søren Rysgaard/Danish Army On 16 September…
(a) Schematic of the fabrication process. (b) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of an as-printed diamond PhC. (c) Tile view SEM image of the annealed diamond PhC. (d-i) High-magnification SEM…
Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon capsule’s hatchSpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn mission.…
The Perseverance rover is exploring MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted an aurora on Mars that would have been visible to humans. This first sighting of its kind suggests that…
A handout image from Atlantic Wreck Salvage shows diver Joe Mazraani fanning away sand to reveal a ‘deadeye’ used as part of the sail rigging of Le Lyonnais. A US…