Science
Why Trump's order targeting 'woke' AI may be impos...
President Trump signed an executive order requiring companies with US government contracts to make t...
Wild new 'Skyfall' Mars mission would drop 6 scout...
"With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, ...
Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shi...
Fierce marine heatwaves were recorded globally in 2023 and 2024, and some researchers now believe th...
Scientists just made the 1st antimatter 'qubit.' H...
Scientists made an antimatter qubit made from an antiproton that is in a state of quantum superposit...
Satellite data reveals 2023 was record-breaking fo...
The impacts ripple into human systems — reducing fishery yields, straining aquaculture and affecting...
'The ocean is no longer too big to watch': How AI ...
Protected regions of the ocean are doing their job and keeping illegal fishing at bay, according to ...
These gorgeous new images of the cosmos from NASA'...
NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, cap...
No, the whole world won't go dark on Aug. 2 — but ...
A viral claim says the world will go dark on Aug. 2. It won't — but a record-breaking solar eclipse ...
This 'super-Earth' exoplanet 35 light-years away m...
A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, wher...
Why a tech start-up wants to pump your faeces deep...
Start-up Vaulted Deep, which has funding from Microsoft, says storing human waste deep underground c...
Thousands of seadragons are dying in Australia's t...
An algal bloom in South Australia has caused mass deaths of many species since March - now researche...
Astronomers calculate that the universe will die i...
The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than th...
New moon of July 2025 sees Saturn swim with the fi...
Saturn will be quite distinct in the Pisces constellation.
Our brain's mitochondria may play a crucial role i...
Textbooks say that mitochondria exist to supply cells with energy, but experiments in fruit flies su...
'Here today, Gorn tomorrow:' Showrunners talk putt...
'Here today, Gorn tomorrow. I think it's now time for other scary things to take their place.'
New fiber optic telescope 4MOST channels 'The Fant...
Marvel's new superhero movie isn't the only thing featuring some of the brightest stars.
The largest supernova catalog ever made has some n...
A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided...
The time you take an oral exam could affect whethe...
Midday seems to be the optimal time to take an oral exam at university, which could be due to studen...
Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to kee...
Many people like to check that they have walked 10,000 steps over the course of a day, but falling s...
2 Earth weather satellites accidentally spy on Ven...
Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also bee...
New Neil Armstrong Prize to honor achievements in ...
Purdue University's new Neil Armstrong Space Prize, named for the school's most famous astronaut-alu...
Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosa...
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking to...
The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling s...
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them ...
See Tianzhou 9 cargo mission dock at China's Tiang...
The Tianzhou 9 freighter arrived at China's Tiangong space station last week, packed with supplies. ...
Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery abo...
A long-standing mystery about the presence of hydrogen peroxide on Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa m...
Homo naledi's burial practices could change what i...
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists ...
Space Force's Golden Dome chief says space-based m...
The head of the Trump administration's Golden Dome program says the technologies needed to create su...
Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is packed with...
Scientists have examined the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, finding evidence that it is packed with ...
Ozzy Osbourne's journey through space, time and sc...
A Space.com obituary for the ‘Prince of Darkness' Ozzy Osbourne.
Simple skincare routine could stop babies developi...
Keeping a baby's skin moisturised could significantly reduce their risk of eczema - but perhaps only...
AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions fr...
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words i...
Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of ...
A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like a...
What were ancient humans thinking when they began ...
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions ab...
Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point w...
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can hav...
How do scientists calculate the probability that a...
The 2024 YR4 asteroid may come close to Earth, but how do experts calculate this potential impact?
The Milky Way brightens the moonless summer sky th...
Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon p...
This star escaped a supermassive black hole's viol...
A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruptio...
Rare sight from space: Snow dusts the dry Atacama ...
The Atacama Desert in Chile recently received some snowfall, causing issues for the ALMA (Atacama La...
AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penal...
By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would...
Sharp-eyed US-Indian satellite set to launch July ...
NISAR, a joint mission of NASA and ISRO set to launch on July 30, will be able to see shifts in the ...
Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for ...
A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, sho...
SpaceX launches 2 powerful internet satellites, la...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two of SES's O3b mPOWER communications satellites toward medium-Ea...
This 200-light-year-wide structure could be feedin...
Astronomers have discovered a 200-light-year-wide Giant Molecular Cloud dubbed the Midpoint cloud th...
Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatw...
Reducing air pollution is critical for improving public health, but it has brought big climate trade...
Don't miss the crescent moon cozy up to Jupiter ea...
The thin crescent moon and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye for early risers on July 23.
'They are coming here.' AI soldiers invade Earth i...
'A malfunctioning program who wants to live. Why is that?'
DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Ma...
Two AI models have achieved gold medal standard for the first time in a prestigious competition for ...
How to safely photograph the sun: As detailed by a...
Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its wondrous featu...
Stunning twilight photo captures comet bidding far...
Miguel Claro took one last look at Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas as it bid farewell to Earth for...
Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Gala...
Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the diminutive reptiles ha...
