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Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest known nursery on the planet

Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest known nursery on the planet

Researchers have located the planet’s largest known octopus nursery deep off the California coast, documenting 5,718 animals on 2.5 hectares and estimating around 20,000 around Davidson Seamount. Known as Octopus Garden, the nursery is located about 10,500 feet below the surface off the central coast of California. According to a statement issued by the Monterey … Read more

Thailand’s ‘Jurassic Park’ aims to bring in tourists

Thailand's 'Jurassic Park' aims to bring in tourists

Most dinosaur fossils are discovered in northeastern Thailand, in Phu Wiang National Park, which is why this region is jokingly called “Thailand’s Jurassic Park.” Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, a PhD student at University College London, told the AFP news agency that the dry climate and sparse vegetation leave fossil-bearing rocks exposed and easy to find.

Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia

Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia

Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts said that a small asteroid impact will occur over the Indian Ocean near Australia today, September 6, 2026, at 16:07 UTC. The object should harmlessly impact Earth’s atmosphere near northwest Australia and create a bright meteor. Image via Batman111/ Pixabay. Small asteroid impact today near Australia The … Read more

Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped

Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped

Saturn’s north pole captured by Cassini in 2013. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill) Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have found that Saturn appears to favor the ten-sided decagon at its south pole. This comes as its south pole has recently been confirmed to show a pattern that is strangely ten-sided, … Read more

Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.

Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.

Enceladus is small enough to fit comfortably within the length of Great Britain. Its electromagnetic influence, however, reaches a distance greater than the usual maximum separation between the Earth and the Moon. A peer-reviewed analysis of Cassini data in 2026 has traced disturbances associated with Saturn’s icy moon to at least 504,000 kilometers downstream. This … Read more

Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be one original survivor.

Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be one original survivor.

Neptune has 16 known moons, but hardly any conventional lunar system. Triton alone contains more than 99 percent of the satellite system’s mass, traveling backwards around the planet and leaving only a compact collection of small inner moons, faint rings and distant, irregular companions. That peculiar architecture has long signaled an ancient catastrophe. Triton probably … Read more

The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a very bad day, not its normal state.

The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a very bad day, not its normal state.

Voyager 2 arrived at Uranus on January 24, 1986 and remains the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Its brief passage discovered Uranus’s magnetic field and provided the in situ measurements behind almost all subsequent accounts of the planet’s magnetosphere. There was always the danger of turning a flyby into a permanent portrait. A … Read more

Fruit Fly Brain Simulated Inside Minecraft / X

Fruit Fly Brain Simulated Inside Minecraft / X

Last updated on September 6, 2026 Evan Smith used the newly released connectome of an adult male fruit fly (which mapped 166,000 neurons from HHMI Janelia and Google Research) to run a real-time spike network in Minecraft. The game’s sensory inputs activate clusters of neurons, driving actions like flying or grooming, while emphasizing that it’s … Read more

Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the species has quietly survived for generations

Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the species has quietly survived for generations

A woman took a shortcut through a cemetery to avoid a parking fee and ended up in a scientific paper. Rachel Fordyce worked as a technician in an entomology laboratory at Cornell University. To avoid paying for a parking spot on campus, I used to park in a nearby plaza and walk the last stretch … Read more