The Venezuelan earthquake doublet is a stark reminder that multi-fault systems may pose greater destructive power than some seismic models predict. | Continue reading
An JWST image of the nearby Centaurus A galaxy reveals star dust, collision scars and the fingerprint of a black hole. | Continue reading
Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong? | Continue reading
El Niño transforms tropical forests from carbon sinks to sources. 2026 could be the worst year yet. | Continue reading
In his new book, "Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations," science writer Sam Kean explains the odd and intriguing world of experimental archaeologists. | Continue reading
"A lot of the book was actually me floundering around, failing to complete the projects or figuring out what I was doing wrong," author Sam Kean says about his experimental archaeology adventures. | Continue reading
Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis. | Continue reading
July 11, 2026: 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
A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation for his illness. | Continue reading
From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day. | Continue reading
In an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults. | Continue reading
A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity. | Continue reading
Chinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel. | Continue reading
Canon's newest release is a triumph for wildlife photographers who want a reliable, fast camera capable of producing beautiful images without having to go pro. | Continue reading
A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sustaining public health programs. | Continue reading
A rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot — sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button before researchers realized it was the first of its kind found on Norwegian soil. | Continue reading
Doctors' decisions around antibiotics aren't as logical as you might assume; they can be skewed by emotional and social factors, a medical sociologist explains. | Continue reading
Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began. | Continue reading
New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy. | Continue reading
Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas. | Continue reading
Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium. | Continue reading
A new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test treatments before they reach patients. | Continue reading
Michigan has been particularly hard hit by the cyclosporiasis outbreak, with 1,251 cases reported — the highest in the state's history. | Continue reading
Green spaces in cities are functioning components of urban infrastructure that deserve the same level of planning, investment and accountability as any engineered system. | Continue reading
A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds. | Continue reading
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned. | Continue reading
After multiple hospital visits and unsuccessful antipsychotic treatments, a woman's doctors uncovered an overlooked explanation for her hallucinations. | Continue reading
Experts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729. | Continue reading
Around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse. | Continue reading
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is not well-known historically. | Continue reading
A collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from the universe's first billion years. | Continue reading
A 2020 satellite photo shows off the ethereal beauty of submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in the Great Bahama Bank. This massive underwater structure is as old as the dinosaurs and has been admired by scientists for decades. | Continue reading
SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing. | Continue reading
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information. | Continue reading
When the heart's pumping function gets weaker, areas of the brain linked to memory show early signs of damage, a study finds. | Continue reading
Physicists isolated the 'last sound' of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon. | Continue reading
A woman's abdominal discomfort turned out to be caused by a build up of food in her stomach. And the treatment involved diet soda. | Continue reading
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever. | Continue reading
Only a handful of these small, sleek, marble figurines carved by enigmatic Stone Age people are known to exist. | Continue reading
Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question mark over how scalable this method is. | Continue reading
Why haven't we found evidence of advanced aliens? It could be that they've outsourced cosmic exploration to superintelligent AI, a new paper suggests. | Continue reading
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates the 4th of July with a dazzling array of red, white and blue space phenomena. | Continue reading
Humans have fought countless wars over the millennia. Has there ever been a time when we weren't fighting? | Continue reading
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence. | Continue reading
A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, raising the chances that it has the conditions to support life. | Continue reading
July 4, 2026: 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