A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works. | Continue reading
The site was occupied throughout much of the Neolithic period and contains dozens of ancient burials and artifacts. | Continue reading
The Spring equinox (March 19, 2024) signals the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, and a rare moment of "equal night" across the world. | Continue reading
Wim Hof, known as "The Iceman," purports a combination of breathing exercises and cold exposure has many health benefits. But a new review of studies finds there's limited evidence. | Continue reading
The ancient obect Gz9p3, which appeared as a single point of light through the Hubble Space Telescope, is actually one of the most enormous galaxies in the early universe, James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal. | Continue reading
A study followed participants for about eight years and found an increased risk of death in those who practiced intermittent fasting. But more data is needed. | Continue reading
The gigantic star Betelgeuse, which could be close to exploding, has previously been seen spinning much faster than it should be. However, a new study suggests that these observations were misinterpreted because of the star's shape-shifting surface. | Continue reading
Video footage captures an egg-laying amphibian "nursing" its babies with a nutritious liquid similar to mammalian milk. | Continue reading
The submerged volcano in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has erupted for the fourth time in four months. The resulting lava flow narrowly missed Grindavík but could still reach the sea and potentially unleash a toxic gas plume. | Continue reading
By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to twice and consume 50% less energy. | Continue reading
Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of asteroid Bennu. | Continue reading
Total solar eclipses, like the upcoming one on April 8, occur on reliable schedules that we can calculate far into the past. This information helps researchers date mysterious events from ancient history. | Continue reading
New, specially edited photos show a previously unseen swirl of light surrounding the city-size comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is currently racing toward the sun and will later zoom past Earth. | Continue reading
Babies usually rub their eyes when they're tired, but why? | Continue reading
Two new James Webb Space Telescope images show off massive bubbles carved out of a stellar nursery by giant, baby stars growing in a nearby galaxy. | Continue reading
The solar system's eight planets will never truly be in a straight line, but they can get close to it. | Continue reading
In this extract from Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History, Jeffrey McKinnon examines the changes taking place in Lake Baikal as temperatures rise in this vast and otherworldly ecosystem. | Continue reading
Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers. | Continue reading
Why do some celestial bodies have tadpole or even horseshoe-like orbits? | Continue reading
Beautifully designed, this oscillating fan heater purifies air and cools or warms your space as required — but is it worth the considerable cost? | Continue reading
After four months of being unable to detect comprehensible data from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA scientists have had fresh luck after sending a "poke." | Continue reading
A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data. | Continue reading
A newly discovered volcano near Mars' "Labyrinth of Night" could be a "prime" spot to search for life on the Red Planet, scientists say. | Continue reading
Geologists have found that the rocks of the Barberton Greenstone Belt are similar to those subjected to earthquakes and landslides in New Zealand. | Continue reading
A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of Fire." | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy Buds2 are one of our favorite all-time running headphones thanks to qualities like their comfort. They’re also now selling with $43.28 off at Walmart. | Continue reading
Unlike regular bathroom scales, the RENPHO Smart Scales provide 13 body composition metrics like body fat and muscle mass — and they’ve been reduced to $29.99 at Walmart. | Continue reading
A study conducted on two snake farms has found that breeding pythons for meat is more energy and resource-efficient than current livestock production, offering a viable protein alternative. | Continue reading
Scientists built an app that let them control a robot using hand gestures while wearing the Apple Vision Pro VR headset. | Continue reading
Astronomers have taken the most detailed image of the Vela supernova remnant ever. The stunning, 1.3-gigapixel image is also the largest ever released from the Dark Energy Camera. | Continue reading
An expert explains leprosy, an ancient disease caused by two different bacteria, one of which was only identified in 2008. | Continue reading
A nova outburst visible to the naked eye is expected to decorate the night sky this year with a "new star" that will briefly become as bright as the North Star, offering a once-in-a-lifetime stargazing opportunity. | Continue reading
Two early clinical trials that together included nine patients suggest that a treatment called CAR-T therapy could treat glioblastoma, but its long-term effects are unknown. | Continue reading
Complex organic molecules spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may hint at how habitable planets form. | Continue reading
A CDC report describes 10 patients infected by an amoeba after conducting a nasal rinse, three of whom died from a nervous-system infection. | Continue reading
Researchers say they've found the answer to competing hypotheses about how the brain functions in a "flow state." | Continue reading
Such badges were common among Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages, but it's not clear what the basilisk represents. | Continue reading
An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic was a tropical island 45 million years ago. | Continue reading
Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error. | Continue reading
SpaceX's powerful Starship system spent roughly an hour in orbit performing test maneuvers for the first time ever. But two simultaneous communications errors means the rocket won't be recoverable. | Continue reading
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day. | Continue reading
Malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared somewhere in the Indian ocean a decade ago. Now, Malaysia's transport minister wants to renew the search for the missing airplane. | Continue reading
Hungry for Pi? Check out NASA's Pi Day challenge and put your wits to the test solving problems just like NASA scientists and engineers. | Continue reading
Scientists used AI neural networks to teach a robot dog new tricks, enabling it to climb wooden crates and hop between them. | Continue reading
On Pi Day (March 14) we celebrate perhaps the most iconic irrational number on Earth. From its ancient origins to the unanswered questions, here are some of the most surprising facts about pi. | Continue reading
On Pi Day (March 14), NASA reminds us why we need only a small slice of the irrational number's infinite decimal places to explain most of the known universe. | Continue reading
From a poem written by a U.S. Poet Laureate to millions of stenciled names, NASA's Clipper spacecraft's trip to Europa will be marked with a human touch. | Continue reading
Paul Alexander was one of the last people to use an iron lung, having been left unable to breathe on his own after catching polio in the 1950s. | Continue reading