This week
Time and matter · Vienna, Austria
The first clocks that tick with an atom's nucleus
Wild animals
Nine toki fly free on Japan’s main island
Around 4,000 small dams.
Land and trees · Winter Hill, England
4,000 little dams, and the curlews are back on Winter Hill
Wild animals · Aldabra, Seychelles
About 180,000 giant tortoises on Aldabra, the most ever recorded
Off Earth · Gale Crater, Mars
Curiosity, 1 km up a mountain on Mars
Time and matter · South Pole
A Nobel for a telescope made of South Pole ice
Wild animals · Concord, Massachusetts
Small Fry the classroom turtle is a mom
24/7, a UK first.
Hospitals and health · Belfast, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland: stroke clot removal now 24/7
The deep sea · A canyon off Argentina
57 new species from a deep canyon off Argentina
Wild animals · Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
Corncrake chicks caught on camera on Rathlin
26 Starlink satellites.
Off Earth · Orbit
Starship reaches orbit for the first time
Land and trees · Hadrian’s Wall, England
Sycamore Gap stump is growing back
Fields and food · Leiden, Netherlands
A Dutch rice field gets its first machine harvest
Wild animals · Islands off Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand’s heaviest insect is recovering
Land and trees · Bronx Zoo, New York
American chestnut trees planted at the Bronx Zoo
India’s first captive-bred release.
Wild animals · Rajasthan, India
Great Indian Bustards are back in the wild
