Science
Tropical forests ravaged by logging can still have...
Logged forests in Borneo have more abundant birds and mammals than pristine forests, showing that co...
Puzzling methane rise in 2020 linked to pandemic l...
A spike in the greenhouse gas methane in 2020 may be explained in part by a drop in nitrogen oxide e...
NASA's new SWOT satellite to study Earth's water f...
NASA and the French space agency's latest satellite mission will look at how climate change is affec...
OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples will land on Earth in ...
In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector — a basket full of asteroid...
How well do you know your animal poo? Find out wit...
Can you match these pictures of poo to the animal responsible? This quiz from naturalist Chris Packh...
Surprising loss of sea ice after record-breaking A...
Although models accurately predicted the evolution of the Arctic storm, scientists were surprised to...
James Webb Space Telescope spots rare red spiral g...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted several rare red spiral galaxies, giving astronomers a ne...
The Christmas asteroid challenge starts tonight. H...
The European Space Agency (ESA) issued a challenge to spot the Christmas asteroid and encouraged any...
Toughest material ever is an alloy of chromium, co...
An alloy made of almost equal amounts of chromium, cobalt and nickel resists fracturing even at incr...
Scientists finally found the clitoris on snakes – ...
Researchers found the first evidence of a two-part sexual organ called a hemiclitoris in all nine sp...
The human brain breaks apart 10 times as easily as...
Researchers used MRI scans and an algorithm to measure the stiffness and resilience to pressure of t...
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft reaches port in ...
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule made it to port in San Diego on Tuesday (Dec. 13), two days after wra...
'High on Life' launches you into space with potty-...
High on Life brings swearing, talking guns and a highly rated bounty-hunting adventure from space to...
Drone used to map radioactive vault at former US w...
A drone has mapped a vault full of radioactive powder as part of a decades-long project to clean up ...
SpaceX launched Qatar World Cup match balls on Fal...
A recent SpaceX Falcon 9 launch included the rocket's first stage landing back on Earth. What differ...
Private Japanese moon lander snaps 1st photos in d...
The Hakuto-R lander has snapped its first photos since launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Su...
COP15: Rich countries announce alliance to make mi...
Seven of the world's wealthiest countries have announced an alliance to improve the sustainability o...
Mirosław Hermaszewski, first Pole to fly into spac...
Mirosław Hermaszewski, who was the first, and to date, only citizen of Poland to fly into space, has...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Holds Up Forty-...
It might be rapidly approaching 50 years old, but Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still a mast...
Major breakthrough in pursuit of nuclear fusion un...
American researchers have achieved a major breakthrough paving the way toward nuclear fusion energy ...
Boom! Watch an inflatable space station module exp...
Sierra Space performed a "burst pressure" test on a space station module prototype, to prepare for f...
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover records 1st-ever au...
Perseverance has captured the sound of dust grains impacting the NASA rover, and the recording could...
NASA's Perseverance rover recorded the sound of a ...
The Perseverance rover is the first spacecraft to carry a microphone to another world, and it has re...
Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic ...
A controlled fusion reaction has generated more energy than was put into the system for the first ti...
The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's ho...
The Geminid meteor shower will peak overnight tonight (Dec. 13 and Dec. 14), producing anywhere from...
OpenAI is developing a watermark to identify work ...
A cryptographic tool inserts a detectable signature in the words produced by OpenAI’s text-generatin...
Arianespace targets triple satellite launch today
Arianespace plans to bring three satellites aloft from French Guiana on Tuesday (Dec. 13), and the n...
Amateur astronomers challenged to spot an asteroid...
On Thursday (Dec. 15), an asteroid that could be as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass Ear...
Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech...
From family photos to particle physics data, we generate stupendous amounts of digital information -...
Final frontier: 'Star Trek: Nemesis' marked the en...
2002's "Star Trek: Nemesis" blows out the candles on its big 20th birthday today.
'Quantum time flip' makes light move simultaneousl...
The time-flipped photon can't be used to restage "Back to the Future," but it could help us figure o...
Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find...
Would your radiation badge work? What would it be like to witness a nuclear bomb blast? The early un...
