Research, Space & Discovery
Pierre Kory Wins PREP Act Immunity—Does Medical Freedom Face a Test of Its Own Principles?
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south pole.
An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result sho...
A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there
Skull bone marrow has become an exciting research topicThe postThe Secret of Chronic Pain Could Lie in the Skullappeared first onNautilus.
The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission will begin its drawn-out Mercury arrival phase on Sept. 3, and you can watch the action live.
NASA’s new Mars helicopter rotors survived supersonic testing, boosting lift by 30% and paving the way for heavier, more capable aerial explorers on the Red Planet. NASA engineers have successfully pu...
Computer Work may be Hazardous to your Health
September 2, 2026 Weather shapes bus ridership, but cost and shelters can change the equation by Jennifer Woodruff, University of Colorado Denver edited by Gaby Clark , reviewe...
The relentless heatwaves that have hit the northern hemisphere this summer have made the climate threat real for many – but preparation and adaptation will take us only so far
As populations expanded in medieval England, key changes occurred in the uses of cattle and sheep to produce food and materials, according to a study published Sept. 2, 2026, in the journal PLOS One b...
Feedback goes down an AI rabbit hole after discovering that the internet is making up stories about epidemiologist and mathematician Adam Kucharski - and that his wife has had to weigh in
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have developed an innovative method for coupling light non-linearly. This opens up n...
An ongoing national teacher shortage has created a sense of urgency to better understand why educators choose to stay in their positions—and why they leave.
More than a century ago, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory of psychological types.
Neutrinos are pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars and our bodies by the trillions each second. The elementary particles are often desc...
The fact that the ocean gets colder as you go deeper is fairly intuitive, but a similar gradient exists along the surface of the ocean, even at scales of 1 kilometer to tens of kilometers. A new study...
A study published in the journal Oikos, titled "Forecasting the impact of food-provisioning and other stressors on a marine top-predator population," found that without protective management, the Indo...
Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades trying to answer this question using mathematical models that ...
What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail: fewer big cubes or lots of small ones? (continued) Peter Endean Via email Of course, the solution is to use a little crushed ice to immediately chill the dri...