Mar 29th, 2026 - Helium isn't something most people think about, unless you're in a lab, running an MRI, building chips, or inhaling it for that squeaky balloon voice. But what if the world suddenly runs out of this invisible gas? As exaggerating as the question may sound, it's exactly what's raising concerns right now. As tensions in the Middle East shake up supply chains, helium has quietly floated into the middle of a global crisis, one that could affect everything from hospital scans to high-tech factories in ways few expected. Earlier this month, the global helium supply chain took a big hit. Iranian ... [Read More]

Mar 27th, 2026 - Earth is facing an unexplained surge of massive, booming daytime fireballs in early 2026. On a Saturday afternoon this past March, a piece of the solar system plummeted toward a home in north Houston. The one-ton space rock broke apart nearly 30 miles above the city, unleashing a violent sonic boom equivalent to 26 tons of TNT. A dark, jagged fragment smashed through a residential roof and even ricocheted around a bedroom like a cosmic pinball. This would have been stunning in itself, except there were more such meteor strikes. During the first three months of 2026, our planet waded through ... [Read More]

Mar 27th, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google A massive whale crashing head first into another sounds like something from a horror story, but new research shows that these giants really do headbutt one another in the ocean. Researchers from the University of St Andrews have captured clear proof that sperm whales headbutt each other. For many years, sailors shared stories about whales using their heads to strike objects. Some even claimed that whales could sink ships. These stories later inspired famous works like Moby Dick . Now, science supports those old accounts. With modern tools, researchers confirmed that ... [Read More]

Mar 27th, 2026 - Rescuers were locked in a race against time to save the struggling mammal - which had become entangled in nets off the north German coast. A humpback whale that was stranded in shallow water off the north German coast has been set free by rescuers. The whale had been stranded for several days on the Timmendorfer Strand, a popular resort town on the Baltic Sea coastline, with several rescue attempts made amid fears the marine mammal was going to die. Dr Stephanie Gross, of the Institute of Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, told Sky News: "The whale is making its way out of the bay ... [Read More]

Mar 27th, 2026 - Kandy, Sri Lanka – On a sunny March day in the hill city of Kandy in central Sri Lanka, Keerthi Rathna waited in a serpentine queue to buy his share of petrol for his three-wheeler tuk-tuk. The government-allocated ration for him was 20 litres (about 5 gallons) per week. In the past, Rathna used to buy as much petrol as he needed, whenever he needed it, but everything has changed since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28. Iran responded by halting most traffic via the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world's oil and gas passes. Sri ... [Read More]

Mar 27th, 2026 - The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near the surface. Only they weren't as active or social as marine biologist Shane Gero had come to expect. "They were just laying there calmly," he said. The researchers launched two aerial drones and started filming. About an hour later, the calm was shattered. The whales started roiling and a sudden gush of blood reddened the water. "To be honest, I thought that predators had attacked," Gero said. ... [Read More]

Mar 26th, 2026 - What a joyous time of year. It's that magical time when we gather round and unveil the year's new COVID-19 variant. What new terrifying mutation has the virus that shut down the world six years ago taken on now? and has been nicknamed "Cicada." It has not yet become the most dominant strain, but it very well could one day, for one big reason: it seems to be pretty good at slipping past our bodies' defenses against COVID-19. BA.3.2 was first detected through airport screening in the United States in 2025. It has since been detected in patients across multiple states and in wastewater samples ... [Read More]

Mar 26th, 2026 - Sharks in the Bahamas are consuming substances including caffeine, painkillers and even cocaine, according to a new study by marine scientists who say it could potentially impact the animals' health and behavior. The research team, made up of marine biologists and scientists from a variety of international programs, analyzed blood samples from 85 sharks of five different species. The sharks were captured about four miles off the coast of a remote island and their blood levels were tested for 24 legal and illegal drugs.  Twenty-eight of the sharks had detectable levels of caffeine, two ... [Read More]