Modern flight recorders can hold more than 1,000 pieces of information about an aircraft. | Continue reading
April 12, 2025: 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
Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atlas that creates new possibilities for neuroscience. | Continue reading
Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia. | Continue reading
Physicists have set a new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. And the finding could poke a big hole in the Standard Model of particle physics. | Continue reading
The La Niña weather pattern ended last month as Pacific Ocean temperatures rose and the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle entered a neutral state, according to the NOAA. | Continue reading
mRNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there. | Continue reading
Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution. | Continue reading
Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like machine that accelerates objects by spinning them. The first orbital demonstration is scheduled for next year. | Continue reading
Researchers have invented two new urinal designs that could significantly reduce the amount of urine splashback, keeping public restrooms cleaner. | Continue reading
Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across. | Continue reading
This better-than-half-price deal is the cheapest we've seen on these rated for ease of use and versatile performance binoculars. | Continue reading
The Acer Aspire Vero 16 is engineered to be as sustainable as it can possibly be — but there isn't much that impresses beyond that. | Continue reading
Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in Australia suggests fungi that attack the worms could be a promising pest control method. | Continue reading
Test your knowledge of how sleeping and dreaming work. | Continue reading
Learn interesting facts about the flu, a viral infection that targets the respiratory system. | Continue reading
A fun and affordable battery-powered toothbrush that’s sure to make brushing an enjoyable experience for little people. | Continue reading
Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia. | Continue reading
A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a whalewatching tour. | Continue reading
"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure without needing to consider multiple collisions or extremely rare conditions." | Continue reading
Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased rainfall and expanding agriculture in the region, according to a new study. | Continue reading
A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it. | Continue reading
Scientists have found previously undocumented ash deposits buried beneath the Lava Creek Tuff in Wyoming — and at least one of them could be from an unknown volcanic eruption, they say. | Continue reading
An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor. | Continue reading
A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But humanity — and our planet — will be long gone before this happens. | Continue reading
Futuristic holograms you can manipulate have become a reality sooner than we thought, thanks to breakthrough display. | Continue reading
Hantaviruses are spread by rodents and can cause deadly respiratory and kidney illnesses in humans. It recently killed Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman's wife, in a widely covered case. | Continue reading
The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its triangle-shaped teeth may finally reveal its intended purpose. | Continue reading
Also known as the 'Paschal Moon,' April's full 'Pink Moon' will rise alongside Spica, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, on April 12. | Continue reading
A public health official in Texas recently warned that the state's ongoing measles outbreak could last a year. Why are cases expected to keep rising? | Continue reading
Physicists are finalizing plans for MATHUSLA, a powerful new addition to CERN's Large Hadron Collider that will detect long-lived particles and potentially open the door to new physics. | Continue reading
A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created. | Continue reading
The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon. | Continue reading
The Copernicus Climate Change Service has revealed that March 2025 saw the lowest sea ice maximum extent in the 47-year history of the satellite record – the warmest March on record for Europe. | Continue reading
Physicists have replicated the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment at hotter temperatures than ever before. The breakthrough is a small but significant step toward quantum computers that can work at normal temperatures. | Continue reading
Scientists recently revealed that they have "brought back" extinct dire wolves thanks to genetic engineering — but experts say the newly created animals are only like dire wolves in appearance. | Continue reading
A new, AI-powered test can detect the molecular "fingerprints" of cancer in a patient's blood using flashes of infrared light. | Continue reading
Useful quantum networks are hobbled by the problem of decoherence from environmental "noise." But a new breakthrough could change that. | Continue reading
DOGE cuts to NOAA Fisheries aren't making anything more efficient — they're stripping the ability of fishers to adapt their businesses to changing conditions. Similar impacts are being felt across different disciplines, and the U.S. science community must choose whether to look i … | Continue reading
A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious. | Continue reading
The HP EliteBook Ultra 14 G1q impresses thanks to its strong performance but its display has left us wanting. | Continue reading
An 11-year Hubble study has finally revealed how long a day lasts on Uranus. | Continue reading
A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland. | Continue reading
As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the point of Earth's axis of rotation. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station. | Continue reading
Comet SWAN25F was discovered using photos from the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft and can currently be spied using backyard equipment — but it could also become visible to the naked eye in the next few weeks. | Continue reading
Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the surface of Mars. | Continue reading
The weapons from a toolkit unearthed in Texas may be the earliest ever found in North America. | Continue reading