Oct 7th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Across Europe, conservation plans for birds often start their timelines in the 1970s. New analyses of bird population records from 1900 to 2018 for 170 European species show why that start date can be misleading, Large bird population declines were already underway by mid-century, and the article reports a high risk of shifted baselines for 28 species and a probable high risk for seven more, roughly 40 percent of those assessed. The term shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) was coined to explain how each generation accepts a degraded state as the new normal, then plans ... [Read More]

Oct 7th, 2025 - A new kind of fluorescent dye which responds to changes in temperature by emitting different colours of light could be used as 'molecular thermometers' to monitor whether sensitive substances like drugs or vaccines have been exposed to extreme temperatures during transport. The dye, which emits light in the red to near-infrared range, could be incorporated into thin films and used as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in flexible screens or encapsulated in polymers and injected into the body for use in biomedical imaging . "One of the reasons why we focus on red to near-IR is because ... [Read More]

Oct 7th, 2025 - Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The ... [Read More]

Oct 7th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Astronomers have caught a starless rogue planet, named Cha 1107-7626, growing faster than any planet ever seen or imagined to be possible. The free-floating world is swallowing gas and dust at roughly six billion tons each second, the fastest planetary growth ever recorded. The rogue planet is collecting material from a small surrounding disk through accretion, a process where gravity drags nearby gas and dust inward. Understanding rogue planets Rogue planets are worlds that drift through space without orbiting a star. Unlike Earth or Jupiter, which are bound to the ... [Read More]

Oct 7th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Fish don't have ears that stick out of their heads like we do. But many of them hear just fine – especially freshwater fish like catfish, minnows, and tetras. What's even more surprising is that they might actually hear better than most saltwater fish. Scientists now think they know how that happened – and it's not the story they once believed. For a long time, researchers believed that a certain group of freshwater fish developed their super-hearing abilities after settling into rivers and lakes when the ancient supercontinent Pangea was still in one ... [Read More]

Oct 6th, 2025 - The discovery reveals a mysterious double-ring system billions of light-years away. When astronomers first started finding "odd radio circles," or ORCs, they were baffled. These faint, ghostly rings of radio light seemed to float in deep space, surrounding galaxies like cosmic smoke rings. Now, scientists have discovered the most powerful and distant one yet, and this one isn't even circular. The new object, named RAD J131346.9+500320, lies seven billion light-years away, from a time when the universe was just half its current age. It doesn't just form one ring, but two, overlapping like a ... [Read More]

Oct 6th, 2025 - Three physicists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics on the macroscopic scale. The research, including into the bizarre phenomena of quantum tunnelling and quantum superposition, has helped to underpin some of today's most advanced quantum computers. John Clarke at the University of California, Berkeley, Michel Devoret at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and John Martinis , also of USCB will share the prize of 11-million Swedish kronor (US$1.2 million), announced by the Royal ... [Read More]

Oct 6th, 2025 - Here's how to manage these voracious invasive pests. Japanese beetles aren't exactly newcomers. These invasive beetles were first found in the U.S. in the early 20th century, likely arriving as grubs in the soil of iris plants imported from Japan. "Without any natural enemies, this beetle spread rapidly and is now found in all states east of the Mississippi," says Daniel Potter, PhD, professor emeritus, department of entomology at the University of Kentucky . "They have also established out west in states such as Colorado, Nebraska, and Minnesota, transported by hitchhiking on planes." ... [Read More]