Research, Space & Discovery
Where is Roman? Roman is making its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, or L2. Along the way, Roman is undergoing a process called commissioning, where systems are turned on,...
For nearly 80 years, physicists have relied on a thought experiment created by Richard Feynman to predict how quantum particles behave. For the first time, researchers in China have tested this trick ...
Classics researchers think it was part of a reference booklet traveling officials carried with themThe postAn Expert Pieced Together This Roman Document Like a Jigsaw Puzzle. You’ll Never Guess What I...
New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves.
Researchers built a dataset of 1,202 records from 448 papers and screened about 150 million virtual compositions to identify potential materials for future MLCCs and electric vehicle electronics. Find...
Alcohol-related liver disease may trap damaged liver cells in a regenerative limbo, preventing the organ from rebuilding itself even after drinking stops. Researchers linked the problem to inflammatio...
Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if the effects hold. Columnist Alice Klein takes a look at the benefits and dow...
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Irish whiskey is one of Ireland's great export success stories. Exports were worth more than €930 million in 2025, with the country's much-loved spirit sold all over the world.
Researchers can now put numerical error limits on quantum simulations, showing how much confidence to place in their results. As quantum simulators become powerful enough to tackle problems beyond the...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey spee...
Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery behind a nearly two-decade-old cosmic explosion that seemed to break the rules of physics. The energy output of a powerful gamma-ray burst, GRB 061201, ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million-mile journey to map the hidden universe at a scale and speed astronomers have never had before. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now o...
Rocky planets may have been able to start forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang, thanks to enormous early supernovae that scattered planet-building elements across space. Simulations found...
The lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza is rapidly spreading along the coast of southern Australia, where it has killed thousands of wild birds and infected at least two long-nosed fur seals.
History educators around the world have expressed concerns about declining history enrollments in schools and universities over the past few decades.
A new study led by Flinders University has flipped the historical narrative about Australia's thylacine, finding the native apex predator known as the "Tasmanian tiger" was significantly different fro...
At least one person was killed and about 15 others were missing after a flash flood at the Grand Canyon, one of the most popular tourist sites in the United States, the National Park Service said in a...
Hurricane Karina formed Sunday in the Pacific Ocean and swiftly intensified into a dangerous major storm within hours, fueled by warm waters far offshore where it poses no immediate threat to land.
Diamond was thought to be incapable of producing electricity through mechanical deformation, but ultrathin flexible diamond membranes have now shown a strong and repeatable piezoelectric effect. The u...