May 9, 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
Elon Musk and Sam Altman battle it out in court, and the outcome could carry significant ramifications for how AI development is shaped. | Continue reading
Human brains have been shrinking since prehistoric times, some studies suggest. Whether this is true and why it has happened are debated. | Continue reading
The FDA is launching a new framework to deliver tailor-made gene therapies to people with rare genetic disorders. Discussions about whom to treat and how to monitor patients are ongoing. | Continue reading
The Department of Defense just declassified more than 160 documents, images and recordings related to UFO/UAP sightings dating back to before the Apollo era. | Continue reading
In hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we thought. | Continue reading
Archaeologists discovered the 20-karat-gold dental wire in the lower jaw of a middle-aged man who lived around 500 years ago in Scotland. | Continue reading
Scientists tested a live quantum internet between three locations across New York, inching closer to an unhackable internet. | Continue reading
New research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants. | Continue reading
A new AI tool finds early hints of pancreatic cancer in CT scans that doctors would otherwise miss, an early test found. | Continue reading
New footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to remove a rock that became stuck on a drill for six days. | Continue reading
A hiker poked into a hole in the ground and discovered a rare gold scabbard ornament from Norway's Migration period. | Continue reading
DNA from living descendants of relatives have allowed four members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to be identified. | Continue reading
The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. | Continue reading
Thursday, May 7, 2026: The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. The cruise ship is on course to arrive in Spain on Saturday while health authorities trace contact cases from the roughly 40 people who have already disembarked. | Continue reading
Friday, May 8, 2026: The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. The cruise ship is on course to arrive in Spain on Sunday. | Continue reading
The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. | Continue reading
Two rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into jewelry. | Continue reading
Laboratory tests have implicated the Andes virus, a specific type of hantavirus, in the cluster of illnesses on the cruise ship MV Hondius. | Continue reading
With no toxic elements to dispose of, the new aqueous battery design could dramatically improve the safety and longevity of battery energy-storage systems. | Continue reading
As Sir David Attenborough turns 100, here are 13 surprising facts about the beloved broadcaster and environmental advocate whose voice has shaped how generations see the natural world | Continue reading
Extremely bright satellites and megaconstellations could make the night sky up to three times brighter than it is now, a new study warns. This would seriously hinder astronomical imaging devices, like the enormous camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. | 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
Quantum batteries can be charged remotely and could allow for far better energy density than conventional batteries used in devices today. | Continue reading
A woman's sudden hyperpigmentation was a side effect of a medicine she was taking. | Continue reading
Researchers turned hard-to-recycle plastic into hydrogen using battery acid. This circular upcycling system tackles multiple problematic waste streams at once, the scientists claim. | Continue reading
As a U.N. report warns that extreme temperature swings are disrupting crops and endangering agricultural workers, we spoke with environmental economist Shouro Dasgupta about farming in an overheating world. | Continue reading
Both unusually low and high resting heart rates may be linked to an increased stroke risk, though more research is needed to confirm a causal relationship. | Continue reading
Observations suggest there's a small, icy object with an atmosphere beyond Pluto, challenging assumptions about which bodies can sustain atmospheres. | Continue reading
A new study suggests early asteroid trajectory data could help design faster Mars missions, potentially cutting round-trip travel time to under a year. | Continue reading
A pair of satellite photos reveals the drastic transformation of Canada's Lake Rouge, which was fully drained after the sudden collapse of one of its banks. A multitude of factors led to the demise of the shocked-emoji-like lake, experts say. | Continue reading
Dozens of pieces of bright-green rock discovered in a cave in the Pyrenees may be evidence of copper smelting 7,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against such stressors, a mouse study finds. | Continue reading
NASA just uploaded more than 12,000 photos snapped by the Artemis II crew during their record-breaking flyby around the moon. Here are some of the most inspiring ones. | Continue reading
Three people have died and three more have fallen ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and hantaviruses may be behind the cases. | Continue reading
Stunning clothes from medieval Christian Nubia have been re-created and put on models, whose performance brought onlookers to tears. | Continue reading
The ornately decorated metal bowl was found as part of a hoard containing dozens of pieces of ancient Roman tableware. | Continue reading
The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating 'sacrifice zones' that harm water and health of world's poor. | Continue reading
The Eta Aquariids will peak May 5-6, with debris from Halley's Comet creating swift meteors, though bright moonlight will make them harder to see. | Continue reading
The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped Sombrero Galaxy. | Continue reading
The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women? | Continue reading
A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning algorithm that analyzed the light curves of more than 80 million previously overlooked stars. | Continue reading
Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds. | Continue reading
May 2, 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
One has stripes, and one doesn't. But do the differences between lions and tigers go deeper than that? | Continue reading
Nathaniel Johnson, a member of NOAA's El Niño forecasting team, says that this year's transition to El Niño could be the fastest on record. | Continue reading
An analysis of 37 urban bird species found that men could get slightly closer to the avians than women could, suggesting that these animals recognize sex differences in humans. | Continue reading
In this excerpt from "What Science Says About Astronomy," author Carlos Orsi examines a 2007 study of 20 million people that showed star signs have no influence on romantic relationships. | Continue reading