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A Multispecies Data Logger for Wildlife Research and Conservation
Animals communicate with signals that range from simple visual cues to complex vocalizations and gestures. Intraspecies and interspecies communication has been studied extensively in birds, dolphins, dogs, primates, and other animal species. The...

Brace for impact: Climate change is set to intensify flight turbulence, warn scientists
Climate change to cause more turbulence in flights The air turbulence experienced in flights is expected to worsen in the coming decades due to climate change, as disruptions in the stability of the atmosphere increase, new research has found....

Astronomers say discovery of new sun-orbiting planet could be 'benchmark for years'
Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. The growing planet, named WISPIT 2b, is estimated to be about 5 million years old – relatively young in...

Researchers want to make acerola cherries Florida’s new fruit sensation
Acerola cherries—also known as Barbados cherries, semerucos, manzanitas, or cerecitas—are well-known in the American market. Consumers across the country can easily find offerings such as acerola juice and powders at retailers like Trader Joe’s or...

Green Hydrogen-Powered Forklifts Drive Industrial Decarbonization in Brazil
On September 5, 2025, US-based Plug Power teamed up with Brazil’s own GH2 Global in a game-changing alliance to roll out green hydrogen-powered gear across the country. They’re zeroing in on forklifts and warehouse vehicles that currently guzzle...

Earth's Seasons Are Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space
The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple. We...
Science dpa international Mystery 'object' sparks 'alien' warning as it hurtles toward Mars
An "interstellar object" discovered only last month is hurtling through the Solar System at an unprecedented 210,000 kilometres an hour and at an angle that has some astronomers raising eyebrows - as well as eyes to telescopes. 3I/Atlas, as the...

Inaugural ContourGlobal RE Facility in US Goes Online
ContourGlobal said it had started operations at the first phase of the Black Hollow Sun (BHS) complex in Severance, Colorado, unlocking 185 megawatts peak (MWp) out of a planned 324 MWp. BHS I has now begun supplying Platte River Power Authority,...

Santiago - Batuco commuter rail contract awarded
The Chilean government says this is the largest railway works contract awarded ever awarded. CHILEAN State Railways (EFE) has signed a $US 470m contract with the Constructora Gran Andes consortium of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC)...

Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Lights Captured by Trail Camera in Chile
A trail camera stationed in a remote part of Chile inexplicably photographed mysterious lights that have left scientists scratching their heads. According to a local media report, the intriguing images were captured by a device placed by...

Influencer who landed in Antarctica without permission finally released
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

AI Revives Chalino Sánchez on ‘Rigo Campos’ Cover With Los Tucanes de Tijuana: ‘Technology Got Us Together’
Chalino Sánchez, the “King of Corridos,” would have turned 65 on Aug. 30. While his tragic murder in May 1992 ended his life, his musical legacy continues to thrive. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Thanks to technology, some of his...

Scientists discover a rare quadruple star system in the Milky Way: Why is this significant?
A team of scientists has discovered an extremely rare quadruple star system in the Milky Way, according to a new study. The system — known as UPM J1040−3551 AabBab — consists of a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbiting a pair of young red dwarf stars,...

Chile and Saudi Arabia resume Brazilian chicken imports
Tuesday, August 26th 2025 - 10:00 UTC So far, 41 countries have resumed purchases from the South American country following this year's detection in southern Brazil According to Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Chile and Saudi...
Chile: record-breaking fines, heightened digital market emphasis and high-profile cases dominate the country’s antimonopoly landscape
Tell us about the most important decisions issued by the competition authority in your jurisdiction concerning antimonopoly over the year. What made them so significant? One of the most significant recent antimonopoly decisions issued by the...

When Scientists drilled into the deep Japan trench of the 2011 earthquake!
Scientists embarked on a deep-sea drilling expedition off Japan to study the fault responsible for the devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The expedition aims to understand the fault's behavior, how it heals, and the factors that...

Why all the excitement about a baby planet discovered by Irish scientists?
What have scientists at the University of Galway discovered this week? They have found a baby exoplanet – a baby in chronological terms, but not in terms of size. What is an exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet orbiting around another sun. They...

Scientists Think This Star Could Be the Next Supernova
Red supergiant DFK 52 and its surroundings as seen by ALMA. The vast, complex bubble blown by this extreme star is about 1.4 light-years across, thousands of times wider than our Solar System. ALMA measures light invisible to the human eye, with a...

Scientists find a quadruple star system in our cosmic backyard
“I like to call this a double-double,” said Adam Burgasser, an astrophysicist who leads the Cool Star Lab at the University of California, San Diego, and was involved in the discovery. A study describing the quadruple star system — a brown dwarf...
Scientist Says Mysterious Object Approaching Earth May Be Alien Artifact
Mundane wayward space snowball, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ever confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is almost certainly a comet. But lingering questions about the object...