Science
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a ...
Cymothoa exigua is the only known parasite that anatomically replaces one of its host's organs. It e...
In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named Wi...
In 1856, a teenage chemistry student named William Perkin tried to synthesize the antimalarial drug ...
In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis w...
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis proved that doctors coming from autopsies were killing new mothers, and th...
The Sun launches roughly a trillion kilograms of c...
A coronal mass ejection carries roughly a billion tonnes of solar plasma across 150 million kilometr...
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in d...
Off the coast of Washington and British Columbia, resident and transient killer whales share the sam...
White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb t...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study U...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hau...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flew for the 35th time tonight (July 10), carrying 29 Starlink satellites t...
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google...
In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally ca...
A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our...
A feeding black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to cosmic titans that exi...
Launching from 2 continents: Germany's Isar Aerosp...
German company Isar Aerospace is expanding its operations overseas after signing an agreement with C...
SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship...
SpaceX completed an engine test of the next Super Heavy booster slated to launch Starship's next mis...
These rare glowing 'space clouds' are summer's bes...
Now is the time to look for noctilucent clouds — shimmering ice clouds that glow near the edge of sp...
UN space database aimed at easing global tensions ...
A list of global space launches designed to calm cold war tensions and promote transparency has been...
Global warming already causing crop losses of over...
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses wi...
The moon, Mars and the Pleiades form a stunning li...
A slender crescent moon, Mars and Aldebaran and two sparkling star clusters will create a beautiful ...
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last the...
At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's l...
Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots ensures as...
A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and...
Astronomers may have heard the 1st 'whispers' of g...
The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of star...
Don't miss out on 'The Ark' Season 3 — get a year-...
Watch SYFY's outer space saga 'The Ark' on Peacock TV and all the best sci-fi content at a bargain p...
The sneaky maths trick for solving problems withou...
How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, c...
Making history! China lands rocket during an orbit...
A Chinese Long March 10B rocket aced its debut launch on Friday (July 10), sending a satellite to or...
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one orga...
In Utah's Fishlake National Forest, a single quaking aspen called Pando spans 106 acres, weighs 6,00...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from...
On September 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week holiday to find a mold spore had k...
2026 eclipse: 5 citizen science projects you can c...
During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even...
In 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance...
On July 22, 1962, an Atlas-Agena rocket carrying America's first interplanetary probe was destroyed ...
Wally Funk, trailblazing pilot and astronaut, pass...
Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation an...
Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever ...
Using the ESA's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of black hole-p...
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites...
SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink s...
Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now w...
An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein...
'Reckless' space-based data centers lack environme...
"Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it...
'Silo' season 3 showrunner Graham Yost explains th...
'We're harkening back to 'Three Days of The Condor,' 'The Parallax View,' and things like that of th...
Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hou...
Perfusing donor human retinas with blood and oxygen meant they continued to respond to light for up ...
Could evidence of life on Mars be hiding in clay? ...
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.
Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten a...
The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “g...
When Sergei Korolev, the chief designer behind Spu...
Sergei Korolev launched Sputnik, sent Laika into orbit, and put Yuri Gagarin around the Earth — all ...
A single cumulus cloud can carry roughly 500 tons ...
A typical fair-weather cumulus holds roughly 500 metric tons of water — about 100 elephants' worth —...
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, whi...
Greenland sharks are the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth, with some individuals in the North Atla...
The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites...
The U.S. government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but so...
Four startup reactors hit criticality by July 4 to...
Four experimental nuclear reactors have started self-sustaining chain reactions on U.S. soil in a si...
Injection halves risk of chromosome error common i...
Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, b...
China announces plan to build early-warning system...
The country's plans include spacecraft designed to detect asteroids coming from the direction of the...
A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferr...
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the b...
Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should...
A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, n...
Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-b...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9)...
Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space...
The Japanese company ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX's Starsh...
Dance of death between binary stars leads to an un...
When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a p...
NASA begins funding hardware for 'Skyfall' Mars he...
NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to de...
Trump gifts Artemis astronauts a flag from the US ...
The next American flag to be planted on the moon has been placed in the hands of one of the last ast...
