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NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal

NASA-funded scientists have discovered that life on Earth over 3 billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was incredibly scarce in the...

NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Florida

Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronaut Chris Williams as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the...

NASA Volunteers Double Known Population of Brown Dwarfs

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over...

Our Land review – right-to-roam campaigners offer bacchanalian antics and a heartfelt message

Orban Wallace’s film about the right-to-roam movement shows us a campaigning group with a simple, reasonable aim: to give walkers in England and Wales...

As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?

Americans do not care about the climate crisis, only economic issues: that’s the message some wonks have put forth in the past year, as...

Campaigners hope to save mother tree of bramley apple

Campaigners have launched an appeal to try to save for the nation the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the...

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people...

Country diary: Newts in the pond, commotion in the house | Mark Cocker

It has been a source of excitement for weeks that we have found ourselves custodians of newts. Judging by the numbers present and the...