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A small, rare marsupial has been saved from extinction in the first ever ‘incredible’ recovery effort: ‘It has a good chance of survival’

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A small, rare marsupial has been saved from extinction in the first ever 'incredible' recovery effort: 'It has a good chance of survival'

Sometimes we get something great. Marsupials are miraculously revived through genetic manipulation. Bandicoots, a group of small nocturnal creatures once declared extinct in Australia, are back from the brink and moving towards a life in the wild. On Tuesday, conservationists released 100 giant bandicoots on Phillip Island near Melbourne. These bandicoots were bred to be … Read more

For the first time in history, scientists create particles from empty space

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Brighter Side of News

The universe appears to be mostly empty space. Once you remove the stars, planets, dust, and gas, there is nothing left. Physics tells a strange story. A vacuum isn’t really empty. It is full of restless energy and momentary quantum fluctuations. These are short disturbances that can generate pairs of virtual particles before disappearing again. … Read more

Earth Day 2026: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds – NASA Science

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View of the Earth rising above the gray cratered lunar surface. Earth's blue oceans and swirling white clouds are illuminated by the darkness of space. The top of the graphic features the NASA and Artemis program logos, and the text at the bottom reads,

April 22, 2026 Earth Day 2026 On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II crew captured this stunning image of the Earth sinking into the Moon’s surface, just before Orion saw the Earth slip into the far side of the Moon and the spacecraft lost Mission Control’s radio signal for 40 minutes. This photo is reminiscent … Read more

Advances in Earth observation at NASA since release of Earthrise photo – NASA Science

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Advances in Earth observation at NASA since release of Earthrise photo - NASA Science

When NASA’s Apollo 8 crew circled the far side of the moon in 1968 and astronaut Bill Anders snapped a photo of Earth peeking out above the gray horizon, the image became a symbol of hope in troubled times. This photo, which became known as Earthrise, helped inspire the first Earth Day celebration two years … Read more

Mississippi physicist creates neutron star reaction in lab

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Brighter Side of News

For years, physicists have wondered if one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam in the universe’s most violent explosions. This question is important because these explosions, called Type IX-ray bursts, are part of the cosmic machinery that helps build heavier elements. In the early universe, hydrogen and helium were dominant. Much … Read more

Black holes from before the Big Bang may still exist today as “cosmic fossils” | Science News

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Gaztanaga proposes a new dark matter mechanism in which relic black holes arise from a pre-big-bounce collapse stage.

New research by Professor Enrique Gaztanaga of the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona suggests that some black holes formed before the Big Bang and survived the cosmic ‘bounce’, potentially explaining dark matter, the gravitational wave background, and the early growth of supermassive black holes and galaxies. Gaztanaga proposes a … Read more

NASA’s Hubble shines on young stars in the Trifid Nebula – NASA Science

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Hubble's view of the vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The upper left is bright blue. Brown and amber draw irregularly overlapping lines from the top right through the center and flow down to the bottom center. The bottom right corner is almost completely dark. Small amber stars appear throughout the scene. On the left side, a brown shape stands out that looks like a head with two horns. The left corner points to the left and is wavy. The right corner is triangular and points upwards. The brown dust flows down the back and continues toward the upper right. A pronounced line appears below the center of the body, approximately the same length as the left horn, changing from orange to red. On the left side of the head there is a separate small translucent column. You can see some slightly larger blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes.

This shimmering region of star formation is a close-up of the Trifid Nebula, about 5,000 light-years from Earth, captured in intricate detail by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble’s visible-light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the mission’s launch on April 24, are reminiscent of an underwater scene filled with fine-grained sediment … Read more

A citizen science project in the fields of Longmeadow that has been in the works for years.

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Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge

LONGMEADOW — Signs encouraging participation in citizen science are posted on wooden posts along the path at the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge. Take a photo of the field with your smartphone from the smartphone holder on the post. Email the photo to the provided email address and voila! — Added a bit of data … Read more

Deep-sea diving robot helps solve mystery of Antarctica’s disappearing sea ice

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A researcher's ship floating in the ice-covered waters of Antarctica

Something strange is swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until 10 years ago, ice floes radiating from the continent continued to expand, even though climate change was already in full swing. Then in 2016, as rising global temperatures appeared to catch up with Antarctica, it suddenly shrunk dramatically, but it has yet … Read more

U.S. tests spinning fuel with 180 million degrees Fahrenheit plasma for nuclear reactors

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U.S. tests spinning fuel with 180 million degrees Fahrenheit plasma for nuclear reactors

Scientists in the United States have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel in tokamaks operating at about 100 million degrees Celsius to explore a more efficient path to nuclear fusion through particle alignment. The project, led by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, aims to assess whether … Read more