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Purple reign: Philippines seeks to keep grip on ube throne 06 Oct 2026 - 09:22 am
This photo taken on September 23, 2026 shows a customer eating an ube bibingka (baked rice cake) at a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa / AFP)
Switching on brain cells: the Nobel-winning science of optogenetics 06 Oct 2026 - 07:56 am
Karolinska Institute neuroscience professor Abdel El Manira speaks in front of a screen displaying an illustration of the human brain during the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Nino 01 Oct 2026 - 07:59 am
A fisherman washes at the fishing terminal in Panama City in the early hours of the morning on September 24, 2026. (Photo by Martin Bernetti / AFP)
New Swiss glacier assessment expected after hottest summer on record 30 Sep 2026 - 05:43 pm
This photograph taken in western Switzerland on September 24, 2026 shows the remains of the now tiny Mauvais glacier, above Les Diablerets. The Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) will release its annual report on the state of Swiss glaciers on October 1, 2026. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
VIDEO: SpaceX puts Starship megarocket in orbit for first time 28 Sep 2026 - 05:21 pm
SpaceX Starship Flight 14 launches at SpaceX Starbase in Starbase, Texas on September 28, 2026. Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP
A cat mistaken for a pet leads scientists to a new wild species in Bolivia 17 Sep 2026 - 07:32 pm
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Rare footage captures humpback whale grieving stillborn calf off Australian coast 17 Sep 2026 - 02:00 am
Representational photo. Source: Magnific
Snail shells could help reconstruct prehistoric cyclones study 15 Sep 2026 - 01:00 am
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Earthquake 5.8-magnitude jolts Vanuatu Islands: GFZ 05 Sep 2026 - 08:47 pm
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Saturn has a new mystery: Scientists discover giant 10-sided shape at south pole 03 Sep 2026 - 07:33 pm
Side-by-side comparison of two views of the gas giant Saturn, labeled “August 29, 2025” at the top left corner. At left is a straight-on view of Saturn, a globe with pale yellow horizontal bands at the equator and orange and pink at the mid-latitudes. Some bands towards the north and south pole have a light blue hue. There are prominent horizontal rings circling at the equator. At right, labeled “Saturn’s south pole,” the south-polar view of Saturn shows concentric bands in its atmosphere, mostly tan and orange, surrounding a dark central region that has a 10-sided outline. A small, dashed circle at the very centre of the pole with an “X” inside denotes missing data. ( Photo from NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Sánchez-Lavega (University of the Basque Country), A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. Wong (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
NASA launches Roman telescope on cosmic mapping mission 30 Aug 2026 - 07:18 pm
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A with NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 30, 2026. Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP
Solar eclipse sweeps across Northern Hemisphere today: Where and how to watch 12 Aug 2026 - 06:01 pm
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VIDEO: New video of the sun supports theory of what happens on its surface 06 Aug 2026 - 12:41 pm
The highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface (photosphere) ever captured, taken at 416 nm by the Inouye Solar Telescope. It reveals deformed boundaries of magnetic elements and ultra-fine scale stripes, both associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Photo credit: NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS
What to know about the total solar eclipse on August 12 05 Aug 2026 - 06:20 pm
People watch a partial solar eclipse at New Brighton, a coastal suburb of Christchurch, on September 22, 2025. Photo by Sanka Vidanagama / AFP
Butterflies seek new habitats as climate changes: study 05 Aug 2026 - 05:54 pm
(FILES) This photograph shows a Wall Brown butterfly, a flying insect, drinking nectar from a flower with its proboscis at the Parc Floral in eastern Paris on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)
SpaceX rocket stage believed to have slammed into Moon 05 Aug 2026 - 01:37 pm
The SpaceX logo is displayed outside a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. facility in Hawthorne, California, on June 8, 2026. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
VIDEO: Humpback whale birth captured in rare drone footage in Australia 03 Aug 2026 - 01:37 pm
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Meet the astronomer digging into the Milky Way's 'fossils' 30 Jul 2026 - 11:49 am
Picture of Amina Helmi shared by the Embassy of the Argentine Republic to the Kingdom of Norway