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Two photographers recently set a world record for the number of individual baleen whales seen in a single group at 304. It’s not just hard rockers that can form supergroups. Humpback whales seem to like it too, though scientists don’t know why. What they do know, however, is that they will congregat...

Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a 270-meter open-air link, proving quantum information can travel between independent devices. The achievement marks a key step toward building quantum networks for ultra-secure com...

Rotem Dozetas/Getty Each animal species has an optimal temperature at which it can metabolise food and its immune system can best fight off pathogens. As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune systems of vertebrates – regardless of how they moderate their own body temper...

An “astonishing” find has led to a “valuable starting point” to developing a treatment for a disfiguring childhood disease. If the reader knows the word “noma” for the famous Danish restaurant, well buckle up because it is also a flesh-eating bacterial disease that affects the mouth and face of chil...

Forty years after poems first appeared on London’s Underground, the project continues to shape the daily journeys of millions The post ‘Having poetry in a public space transports us, even if we don’t understand it’ appeared first on Positive News.

Visitors will be able to watch live veterinary procedures inside a state-of-the-art new animal hospital.

One year of GOES-19 as the new GOES-East satellite It’s been one year since NOAA’s latest geostationary satellite, GOES-19, entered service as GOES-East. Since then, the satellite has provided critical data for high-impact events across the country....

Craig Stevens, CC BY-SA A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica’s largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a 2019 expedition to the Kamb Ice Stream, a river of ice which feeds the Ross I...

The Iran conflict is entering its ninth week, but the damage it’s wrought may last years. First and foremost is the human toll: lives lost, families displaced, homes and businesses damaged. This tragedy is felt most acutely by those in the Middle East. But beyond regional borders, the Iran conflict...