The successful lunar landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission makes India only the fourth country to achieve the feat | Continue reading
If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long. | Continue reading
If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long. | Continue reading
Hundreds of communities across the U.S.—many in unexpected places—are at risk from an urban wildfire like the one that tore through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina | Continue reading
A surge in battery storage is helping Texas beat the heat without additional fossil fuels | Continue reading
A new study reveals the absorbency of pads, tampons and other menstrual products is significantly different than labels suggest | Continue reading
A hogfish may provide the first example of a vertebrate with light-detecting receptor molecules that reside outside the central nervous system | Continue reading
Minuscule amounts of uranium detected in the shells of turtles point to a new way to track such materials’ impacts on people and ecosystems | Continue reading
A chemical trick for making oxygen can sustain whole underground ecosystems | Continue reading
More than 100,000 Americans die every year from drug overdoses. We should warn people in real time about dangerous adulterants in the illicit drug market | Continue reading
The “button dogs” of TikTok seem to be learning human words. What’s really going on? | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds spew from deep beneath Earth’s surface in huge, explosive volcanic eruptions | Continue reading
Research is under way to determine whether the mutation-laden lineage BA.2.86 is nothing to worry about — or has the potential to spread globally | Continue reading
New habitats that are emerging as mountain glaciers melt away represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation | Continue reading
Smoke from wildfires that have been exacerbated by climate change is complicating the picture of air pollution in the U.S. | Continue reading
One of the most in-depth catalogs of an animal’s brain-body connections ever compiled ties neural activity to roundworm behavior | Continue reading
Climate change is making wildfires more likely and more intense, exposing more people to dangerous wildfire smoke. Scientists are continuing to learn how much damage that smoke can do to the environment and human health | Continue reading
Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in nearly a half-century, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes | Continue reading
Global efforts to eradicate the poliovirus were recently described as unsuccessful—yet Afghanistan and Pakistan are now on the verge of eliminating it | Continue reading
For thousands of years, no one truly knew how birds migrated—that is until a few unlikely pioneers sat, with hundreds of pounds of kludged together recording gear, in an empty field waiting to hear sounds that no one had ever captured | Continue reading
From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide | Continue reading
Horror stories from Indigenous writers, a plea for better road ecology, and more books out now | Continue reading
As waters off Florida hit abnormally hot temperatures, volunteer divers are rescuing corals to ride out the heat wave in giant tanks on land | Continue reading
Ancient poop pathogens in Israel, Peru’s millennia-old El Niño preparations, a halt to Icelandic whale hunting, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits | Continue reading
Physicists are on an ever urgent quest to find a fuller understanding of what makes the cosmos tick, which they call a theory of everything | Continue reading
Hurricane Hilary is set to cause torrential rains and flooding in the desert Southwest. It could even potentially bring California its first direct hit from a tropical storm since 1939 | Continue reading
Science in meter and verse | Continue reading
Soaring temperatures fueled by climate change are contributing to buckling highways, ruptured tires and impaired visibility from wildfire smoke | Continue reading
Improved DNA analysis has updated thinking on the skin color, ancestry, and more of the alpine mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman | Continue reading
As few as 15 percent of people who would benefit from hearing aids use them | Continue reading
In October 2021 a national emergency in child mental health was declared. Since then the crisis has only gotten worse | Continue reading
The doomed class of stars named Wolf-Rayets produce mysterious pinwheel shapes | Continue reading
In the latest chapter of an ongoing “moon rush,” Russia’s Luna-25 mission will attempt the nation’s first lunar landing in nearly 50 years | Continue reading
In the latest chapter of an ongoing “moon rush,” Russia’s Luna-25 mission will attempt the nation’s first lunar landing in nearly 50 years | Continue reading
On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness | Continue reading
Here’s what the hairiest problem in math can teach us about wind, antennas and nuclear fusion | Continue reading
At Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits, scientists found they could watch large mammals disappear from the fossil record—and could trace the ecosystem through the catastrophe | Continue reading
Magnetars possess magnetic fields that are trillions of times stronger than those of ordinary stars. Now we might have seen one of these extraordinary objects about to form | Continue reading
Extreme temperatures across the U.S. have put the elderly, outdoors workers and people with no access to cool air at the greatest risk of severe heat-related illnesses or even death | Continue reading
To steal cars that rely on remotes and computer networks, thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices | Continue reading
Here’s the story of the Lilli Hornig, the only female scientist named in the film Oppenheimer. | Continue reading
When criminal behavior overlaps with degenerative cognitive disease, the justice system often falters | Continue reading
Huge data sets and matrices help online companies predict what you will click next | Continue reading
If you want to make it through the trials and tribulations of Mercury in retrograde, it’s easy: don’t do anything. You’ll be fine | Continue reading
Although Arecibo Observatory is slated to become an education center, astronomers hope research might one day return to the site | Continue reading
Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people, and better health overall. | Continue reading
A new study finds that heat-related illness incidents will soar alongside temperatures inside the famed Grand Canyon National Park | Continue reading
A chemist breaks down how hair follicles respond to summer heat and humidity | Continue reading