The Environmental Protection Ministry stated that the possibility of hazardous chemicals leaking was being investigated, but that at this stage, there was no expected risk to nearby towns. An Iranian missile impacted in the industrial zone of Ne'ot Hovav on Sunday afternoon, starting a fire and potentially causing a leak of hazardous chemicals, Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry stated.
For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful recordings of birdsong to reveal that one of those birds was actually new to science. It was a hidden species that no one had
A humpback whale struggling in shallow waters off Germany's northern Baltic Sea coast has become stranded for a third time, experts said on Sunday, just hours after the animal had freed itself from a sandbank.After escaping a second sandbank late Saturday near Wismar, it was stranded once again on Sunday.
Marine scientists in Germany are increasingly worried about a whale that managed to free itself from a sandbank, only to run aground again in shallow waters, as local experts say the mammal's prospects of survival are now worsening. The humpback whale's condition has deteriorated significantly in the past 24 hours, Burkard Baschek, director of the German Oceanographic Museum, said at a press conference in the coastal city of Wismar on Sunday.
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said it had immediately taken over the investigation.
More than 8 million people turned out at over 3,300 No Kings protests across all 50 states on Saturday, organizers said, calling it the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history. Bruce Springsteen performed at the flagship Minneapolis rally.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Even if every human being on Earth went for a dip in the ocean at the same time, they’d be just a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the planet’s seas.
The Israeli military on Sunday reported attacks on Tehran and other targets aimed at Iranian infrastructure and power structures. Iran's Fars news agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported missiles striking a residential area to the south of Tehran.
In late-1960s East Germany, racer Heinz Melkus won approval to build the Melkus RS1000: a Ferrari-inspired fiberglass coupe using Wartburg running gear. Modest power, real charisma, and ADMV-linked exclusivity made it a legend.
As both sides push drones deeper behind the front line, Russia’s new KVS may be an attempt to restore the reach of fiber optic FPVs.
The eggs were discovered near the remains of a campfire believed to have been connected to prehistoric desert nomads who collected, cooked, and ate the eggs at the site. A cache of ostrich eggs dated from approximately 7,000-years-ago was discovered at an archaeological site near Nitzana in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a Sunday social media post.
NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable. The world's first lunar visitors orbited the moon on Apollo 8.
After dark, another Africa wakes up... and a new travel movement offers a window onto this fascinating world
When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe's mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an understandable response. Physicists call it “ dark matter, ” a substance they describe as the cosmic glue, the scaffolding, a web that uses gravity to corral, shape and hold together stars, planets and galaxies. Dark matter's existence is only inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter.