Kimberley Wilson has worked in prisons and with patients from all walks of life. Her years of providing therapy suggest improved nutrition could be key to mental health and brain function. | Continue reading
The exoplanet Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. The potentially habitable planet could be a good place to search for alien life, scientists say. | Continue reading
The Juno spacecraft, which orbits Jupiter, has been imaging the giant planet's moon Europa and spotted apparent movement in its icy crust. | Continue reading
Our human ancestors arose in Africa due to many factors, including climate. | Continue reading
From chocolate to toothpaste, many surprising household products and everyday items are made from petroleum. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the birth of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe for the first time ever, new research hints. | Continue reading
Aardwolves — the "weird cousin" of the hyena world that has peg teeth and only eats insects — are an evolutionary mystery, stemming from a ghost lineage that scientists haven't been able to figure out. | Continue reading
Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars." | Continue reading
Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these natural light shows look even more majestic from above. Here are 32 spectacular photos of auroras taken from space. | Continue reading
Inhabitants of the world's highest settlement, La Rinconada, in the Peruvian Andes, face a unique set of challenges. | Continue reading
Parasitic worms infected a family who'd shared a meal that included undercooked bear meat kabobs. | Continue reading
Social media has been flooded with bizarre and dangerous advice that appears to have been made by Google's new AI overview feature. The company continues to defend the 'high quality' search tool. | Continue reading
Despite a flurry of online reports about a "planetary parade" of six worlds aligning on June 3, only two planets will be clearly visible from Earth. (And they've been visible all month.) | Continue reading
New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier. | Continue reading
This is the first time an animal other than humans has been seen performing the feat of vocal numeracy. | Continue reading
China's southwestern karst landscape is pockmarked with dozens of enormous sinkholes that look like they were made with a cookie cutter — and scientists keep finding new ones. | Continue reading
AlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules. | Continue reading
Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed. | Continue reading
The exoplanet WASP-107 b is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. New James Webb telescope observations may reveal how the mysterious world got so 'puffy'. | Continue reading
Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño could lead to more major hurricanes this year. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the people in the tombs, dated to the Han dynasty, were all from the same wealthy family. | Continue reading
The Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin again. The annual spectacle is caused by New York City's gridiron layout. | Continue reading
Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in the future. | Continue reading
The new source of lithium, which could meet up to 40% of U.S. demand, was discovered in fracking wastewater. | Continue reading
The Euclid space telescope has released five mesmerizing new photos of our universe, kicking off a six-year campaign to unveil the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmological mysteries. | Continue reading
Large language models (LLMs) have mastered the art of deception when competing with humans in games, but scientists warn these skills can also spill out into other domains. | Continue reading
Metal detectorists have unearthed a cache of gold and silver coins hidden in a mountain range in Poland that once belonged to a legendary con artist. | Continue reading
Telescope deal under $200: Use your smartphone to scan the stars with this Celestron StarSense Explorer telescope. | Continue reading
A dairy worker in Michigan contracted an eye infection on a dairy farm where H5N1 had been identified in cows. | Continue reading
Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. | Continue reading
Researchers recruited volunteers from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test the strength of replicas of 3,500-year-old body armor. | Continue reading
New simulations suggest that the origins of the sun's explosive storms could lie much closer to its surface than first thought. | Continue reading
Vibrant auroras that were recently observed by millions of people across the globe were some of the most widespread in the last five centuries, NASA says. The light shows may have also reached the equator. | Continue reading
A new analysis of two skeletons suggests that three modern human viruses infected Neanderthals around 50,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Did this wallet-friendly air purifier tower fan manage to impress us with its performance? | Continue reading
Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female. | Continue reading
Archaeologists and amateurs armed with metal detectors have discovered previous hoards from centuries past. | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to improve the world for many — but others may lose out. | Continue reading
Fires burning across Canada are already triggering U.S. air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains. | Continue reading
The massive statues likely depict rulers from the ancient Olmec civilization. | Continue reading
A new study begins to unpack an understudied aspect of brain biology and Alzheimer's disease. | Continue reading
Scientists have used a new technique to synthesize diamonds at normal, atmospheric pressure and without a starter gem, which could make the precious gemstones easier to grow in the lab. | Continue reading
Scientists have used the gorilla genome to probe for previously unknown genes that may contribute to infertility in men. | Continue reading
Warm seawater flowing into the glacier's underside could significantly accelerate the process of its collapse. | Continue reading
This already affordable, powerful Newtonian reflector is now almost $230 off in this great telescope deal. | Continue reading
Scientists have taken a big step toward making an effective HIV vaccine. | Continue reading
Observe the sun for 25% less on these Celestron EclipSmart solar safe binoculars from your own backyard. | Continue reading
The wealth of grave goods suggests the person buried there was a leader of high status — possibly a Stone Age chieftain. | Continue reading