Between Friday (May 10) and Sunday (May 12), people across the world were treated to stunning aurora displays as Earth's magnetic field experienced its biggest disturbance since October 2003. The supercharged storm also messed with satellites and caused power grid irregularities. | Continue reading
Rick Slayman was the first person in the world to receive this pioneering surgery in March 2024. | Continue reading
Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed. | Continue reading
China’s supersized superconducting chip looks to match the performance of industry leaders like IBM and will be used to help scale up the performance of quantum computers globally. | Continue reading
MIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve their reasoning and contextual awareness in programming, strategic planning and robotics. | Continue reading
It's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do earthquakes happen in the middle of tectonic plates? | Continue reading
Does the eye-catching RabbitAir A3 air purifier live up to its premium price? | Continue reading
The massive caldera of Turkey's Mount Nemrut volcano is split in half, with one side made of solidified lava flows and the other half a deep crater lake. Covered in snow, the summit scene looks like the yin-yang symbol when viewed from above. | Continue reading
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. | Continue reading
TKTKBirman and Burmese cats live the longest, while Sphynx cats die the youngest, a giant new study of U.K. cats found. | Continue reading
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter. | Continue reading
From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life. | Continue reading
A new space photo captures "God's Hand", a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula, where stars are being born. | Continue reading
Spacecraft have visited and photographed the far side of the moon, but why can't we see it from Earth? | Continue reading
Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends. | Continue reading
Ray-Ban smart glasses will now use Meta AI virtual assistant software so that wearers can speak with their smart glasses and ask questions about what they're looking at. | Continue reading
This curiously named sea-dweller lives along the Pacific coast, eats squid eggs and fights by opening its mouth wide. | Continue reading
Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude. | Continue reading
In this excerpt from his new book "What if Fungi Win?" microbiologist and immunologist Arturo Casadevall examines the rise of the deadly yeast Candida auris. | Continue reading
Did the budget-friendly Amazfit Active smartwatch manage to impress us with its performance? | Continue reading
Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D. | Continue reading
Infinite mirrors are a fun party trick, but the physics behind this phenomenon explains why it may not be true. | Continue reading
Officials were alerted to the alleged crime and successfully recovered the artifacts. | Continue reading
An odd earthquake swarm has struck the region between the Czech Republic and Germany, far from any tectonic plate boundary. | Continue reading
A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859 has unleashed another X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. | Continue reading
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The planet's magnetic field may have collapsed around 600 million years ago, enabling a major oxygenation event and perhaps supercharging evolution. | Continue reading
Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ancient ocean conditions, scientists think they can forecast changes over the next century. | Continue reading
NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration. | Continue reading
Aurora-hunting photographers were surprised to spot a misshaped SpaceX spiral with ethereal horns over Europe during a recent geomagnetic storm. | Continue reading
Dice snakes theatrically stage their own deaths, using blood and feces to convince predators they've shuffled off their mortal coils. | Continue reading
The forensic facial reconstruction is based on a precise 3D model of the skull created with medical scans. | Continue reading
A new simulation reveals how Australia's first inhabitants migrated across Sahul, before it became modern-day Australia. | Continue reading
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The newly-discovered cells help shed light on how the liver repairs itself after damage. | Continue reading
COVID-19 vaccine development paves way to a new class of cancer immunotherapy. | Continue reading
Human societies that experience downturns do a better job of recovering from later disasters, new research finds. | Continue reading
Militocodon lydae, a mammal that looked like a chinchilla but is more closely related cows, roamed what is now Colorado after the nonavian dinosaurs went extinct. | Continue reading
By nudging a thorium-229 nucleus into a higher energy state, physicists have made it possible to develop a nuclear clock that could probe the most fundamental forces in physics. However, there is still a long way to go. | Continue reading
Scientists think Tonga's record-breaking 2022 eruption was triggered by gas building up to a "critical point" rather than by a reaction between magma and seawater as previously assumed. | Continue reading
Is the Wahoo KICKR Bike worth the gasp-inducing price tag? | Continue reading
Just a few laps of the wall a day may be enough to keep muscle wasting at bay, scientists say. | Continue reading
Can chimpanzees wage war? In this excerpt from "The Beast Within: Human as Animals," scientific researcher Jessica Serra looks at the dark side of our cousins' behavior. | Continue reading
During a kitchen renovation, a family in England unexpectedly discovered a hoard of coins that was likely buried for safekeeping during the first English Civil War. | Continue reading
Electric cars and laptop batteries could charge up much faster and last longer thanks to a new structure that can be used to make much better capacitors in the future. | Continue reading
What would it be like to fall past the event horizon of a black hole? A new NASA simulation provides a peek into the bizarre physics of spaghettification. | Continue reading
Archaeologists excavating a burial mound in Croatia have discovered a 2,500-year-old Illyrian helmet that may have been a votive offering. | Continue reading
A tiny, previously undisclosed lunar rover has been spotted strapped to the side of China's moon-bound Chang'e 6 lander in newly released pre-launch photos. The true purpose of the rover, which is scheduled to land on the moon's far side, remains a mystery. | Continue reading