A shadow snake has been rediscovered in Ecuador after 54 years

In the rainforests of Ecuador, researchers found a rare snake that hasn’t been seen in 54 years, known as a shadow snake for its dark colour and cautious nature Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269267-a-shadow-snake-has-been-rediscovered-in-ecuador-after-54-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Forgotten PS1 Game ‘Magic Castle’ Finally Emerges Two Decades Later

It might have taken more than 20 years, but a game intended for the original PlayStation has at last made its way into the world. Engadget reports: A group of Japanese developers worked on Magic Castle for eight months in the late ’90s. They used Sony’s Net Yaroze, a system with which hobbyists could make games for the console. The team…

The Yarkovsky effect: Pushing asteroids around with sunlight

The Yarkovsky effect is a minuscule push on a small body in space, imparted by nothing more than sunlight. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/the-yarkovsky-effect-pushing-asteroids-around-with-sunlight…

Return of Myanmar’s smiling turtle

Need something to smile about? Here’s a story about smiling turtles saved from extinction in Myanmar. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/return-of-myanmar-smiling-burmese-roofed-turtle…

How astronomers rediscovered a ‘lost world’

And why this rediscovery of a lost world – called NGTS-11b – bodes well for finding habitable exoplanets. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/lost-world-ngts-11b-exoplanet-habitable-zone…