Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the New Horizons award for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity. | Continue reading
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties. | Continue reading
Researchers studied chimpanzee and monkey anatomy to better understand how humans evolved to have flexible shoulders and elbows. | Continue reading
A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater. | Continue reading
Astronomers discovered an ultra-rare spiral galaxy with a ring of hydrogen swirling around its poles. | Continue reading
Explore the branch of science and technology that's all about building things and solving problems with the latest engineering news, features and articles. | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about zero-emission cars, buses and trucks with the latest EV news, features and articles. | Continue reading
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Asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA intentionally hit with a rocket during its DART mission in September 2022, is behaving in unpredicted ways. | Continue reading
New COVID vaccines have been approved to guard against coronavirus variants that are currently circulating. | Continue reading
Astronomers found evidence of multiple stellar-mass black holes lurking in the nearby Hyades cluster, just 150 light-years from Earth. | Continue reading
The weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis. | Continue reading
The footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show. | Continue reading
The stone spheres were crafted by early hominins who were trying to create symmetry in the objects, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
Reduced by 20%, you can now get the Garmin Venu Sq 2 smartwatch for under $200 at Amazon. It’s bright, accurate, and has a great battery life. | Continue reading
The Sunny Health and Fitness bike has been reduced by 27% on Amazon. It looks like a typical spinning bike at the gym, and is extremely quiet and sturdy. | Continue reading
Cancer treatments aim to kill tumor cells, and the immune system is tasked with getting rid of the resulting corpses. | Continue reading
Farming fundamentally altered the way humans live, eventually changing people from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary city-dwellers. | Continue reading
The Food and Drug Administration reviewed data on phenylephrine, an ingredient in many popular decongestants, and deemed it ineffective when taken orally. | Continue reading
Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach. | Continue reading
Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions. | Continue reading
Apple's desktop line-up gets some love, and it's students that will win out with the Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro. | Continue reading
Nicotine vapes and two drugs called varenicline and cytisine were found to be the stop-smoking aids most likely to help people quit. | Continue reading
"By colonizing the continents and moving to the source of the elements whose availability constrained their ocean-dwelling ancestors, land plants set themselves up to become the second great world-changers." | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered human bones and animal remains dating to around 7,000 years ago in Arabian stone structures known as mustatils. | Continue reading
The comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, will soon be slingshotted around the sun and back out toward the edge of the solar system where it will remain for centuries. | Continue reading
Archaeologists analyzed a number of artifacts from a pilgrimage camp in Israel that they think "sorcerers" used for magical purposes. | Continue reading
An immune-related gene variant has been tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's across a huge, diverse population of people. | Continue reading
A modern reinvention of a legendary model, the OM System OM-1 is the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made — and one of the best cameras, period. | Continue reading
If video is important to you, look no further than the Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX — which is arguably Panasonic's greatest camera ever. | Continue reading
Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it comes back to life. | Continue reading
The enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida. | Continue reading
ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica. | Continue reading
Scientists grew early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos and found the kidneys were "structurally normal" and made up of around 60% human cells. | Continue reading
Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere. | Continue reading
More than 2,500 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on Sept. 8. | Continue reading
Sir Ian Wilmut was key to the successful creation of Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, in 1996. | Continue reading
Save big on the Apple Watch Series 8 at Amazon while stocks last. | Continue reading
Some of these aquatic reptiles of the dinosaur era had dozens of individual bones running down their long necks. | Continue reading
Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols. | Continue reading
The remains have been identified as those of a gunner killed when the badly damaged aircraft crashed into the sea in 1943. | Continue reading
"We aren’t going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures." | Continue reading
Earth is the only rocky body in the inner solar system with strong magnetic poles. But where do these poles come from, and what do they do? | Continue reading
Sept. 8, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
Two planet-sized sunspots peer out from behind what will be the world's largest telescope, currently being built on a mountaintop in Chile. | Continue reading
Mayflies are famous for cramming an entire life into a single day, but that's not strictly true. | Continue reading
In camera trap footage captured in the Alaskan wilderness, the moose appears to try to fight off the bear, as the wolf goes after the calf. | Continue reading