Building on current holographic technology, a team of optical display experts have invented a way to improve 3D displays that's small enough to work in regular glasses. | Continue reading
The monster sunspot responsible for May's vibrant auroras will soon be facing Earth again. Here's when to be alert for the next display of northern lights on the nights close to June's new moon. | Continue reading
Two of the four science instruments aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft are now returning usable data after months of transmitting only gibberish, NASA scientists have announced. | Continue reading
The incoming comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS might become as brilliant as Venus during its close approach to Earth this fall, potentially making it visible to the naked eye. | Continue reading
Albert Einstein was much more than a scientific genius. From his political beliefs to his hatred of socks, here are 32 facts about Einstein you might not have heard before. | Continue reading
Organoids can replicate each component of the human heart, from its chambers to its veins. | Continue reading
Neanderthals could talk, but they likely couldn't use or understand metaphors, which compare two unlike things, research suggests. | Continue reading
Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for centuries. Here are 32 mind-bending examples that prove you can't always trust what your eyes are telling you. | Continue reading
Using a more efficient method than current approaches, researchers promise the coldest temperatures in the world at just a fraction of the cost and time. | Continue reading
Fireflies use a glowing chemical reaction to signal to one another in the dark of dusk and night. | Continue reading
In 2018, satellite images captured a stunning spiral of cyanobacteria blooming in the Baltic Sea. The swirling mass of microbes helped to create a massive "dead zone" the size of West Virginia that starved the surrounding water of oxygen. | Continue reading
"As the magma cooled to form what is today the world's solid outer crust, magnetism was locked into minerals containing iron, such as magnetite." | Continue reading
Kimberley Wilson has worked in prisons and with patients from all walks of life. Her years of providing therapy suggest improved nutrition could be key to mental health and brain function. | Continue reading
The exoplanet Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. The potentially habitable planet could be a good place to search for alien life, scientists say. | Continue reading
The Juno spacecraft, which orbits Jupiter, has been imaging the giant planet's moon Europa and spotted apparent movement in its icy crust. | Continue reading
Our human ancestors arose in Africa due to many factors, including climate. | Continue reading
From chocolate to toothpaste, many surprising household products and everyday items are made from petroleum. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the birth of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe for the first time ever, new research hints. | Continue reading
Aardwolves — the "weird cousin" of the hyena world that has peg teeth and only eats insects — are an evolutionary mystery, stemming from a ghost lineage that scientists haven't been able to figure out. | Continue reading
Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars." | Continue reading
Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these natural light shows look even more majestic from above. Here are 32 spectacular photos of auroras taken from space. | Continue reading
Inhabitants of the world's highest settlement, La Rinconada, in the Peruvian Andes, face a unique set of challenges. | Continue reading
Parasitic worms infected a family who'd shared a meal that included undercooked bear meat kabobs. | Continue reading
Social media has been flooded with bizarre and dangerous advice that appears to have been made by Google's new AI overview feature. The company continues to defend the 'high quality' search tool. | Continue reading
Despite a flurry of online reports about a "planetary parade" of six worlds aligning on June 3, only two planets will be clearly visible from Earth. (And they've been visible all month.) | Continue reading
New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier. | Continue reading
This is the first time an animal other than humans has been seen performing the feat of vocal numeracy. | Continue reading
China's southwestern karst landscape is pockmarked with dozens of enormous sinkholes that look like they were made with a cookie cutter — and scientists keep finding new ones. | Continue reading
AlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules. | Continue reading
Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed. | Continue reading
The exoplanet WASP-107 b is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. New James Webb telescope observations may reveal how the mysterious world got so 'puffy'. | Continue reading
Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño could lead to more major hurricanes this year. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the people in the tombs, dated to the Han dynasty, were all from the same wealthy family. | Continue reading
The Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin again. The annual spectacle is caused by New York City's gridiron layout. | Continue reading
Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in the future. | Continue reading
The new source of lithium, which could meet up to 40% of U.S. demand, was discovered in fracking wastewater. | Continue reading
The Euclid space telescope has released five mesmerizing new photos of our universe, kicking off a six-year campaign to unveil the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmological mysteries. | Continue reading
Large language models (LLMs) have mastered the art of deception when competing with humans in games, but scientists warn these skills can also spill out into other domains. | Continue reading
Metal detectorists have unearthed a cache of gold and silver coins hidden in a mountain range in Poland that once belonged to a legendary con artist. | Continue reading
Telescope deal under $200: Use your smartphone to scan the stars with this Celestron StarSense Explorer telescope. | Continue reading
A dairy worker in Michigan contracted an eye infection on a dairy farm where H5N1 had been identified in cows. | Continue reading
Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. | Continue reading
Researchers recruited volunteers from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test the strength of replicas of 3,500-year-old body armor. | Continue reading
New simulations suggest that the origins of the sun's explosive storms could lie much closer to its surface than first thought. | Continue reading
Vibrant auroras that were recently observed by millions of people across the globe were some of the most widespread in the last five centuries, NASA says. The light shows may have also reached the equator. | Continue reading
A new analysis of two skeletons suggests that three modern human viruses infected Neanderthals around 50,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Did this wallet-friendly air purifier tower fan manage to impress us with its performance? | Continue reading
Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female. | Continue reading