Research, Space & Discovery
Fascist empires and deadly sea monsters are on offer in the science fiction out this month, says Alison Flood
A strengthening El Niño that could shatter all-time records is "adding fuel to a planet already on fire" and pushing the world into "uncharted territory," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warne...
Jay Bhattacharya, WSJIn May 2025, President Trump signed an
Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically change how an eruption unfolds. When magma becomes superheated, it can dissolv...
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We just got an amazing new view of SpaceX's Starship vehicle in space, thanks to one of the company's Starlink V3 broadband satellites.
A previously overlooked set of spin symmetries has revealed that magnetism does not fit neatly into just two categories. For more than a century, physicists divided collinear magnets into two basic ty...
Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a series...
Selam Gebrekidan, New York TimesOne December afternoon, the sky tore open and a fiery hunk of metal, wider than a school bus, came hurtling down.It was louder than a thunderclap...
Blood cancers that eventually worsen may carry detectable genetic warning signs years before patients develop serious symptoms. The findings could lead to earlier intervention while also helping docto...
Sophie Tseng Pellar, McGill OSSWe live in the most information-saturated era in human history, and yet a growing number of people feel like the answers to their questions have never been...
Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows that our evolutionary past was shaped by repeated mixing amon...
Ethan Siegel, Big ThinkWe see our Universe as it is today: 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang. Because of how quickly and how long it's been expanding and cooling, the...
Ed Cara, GizmodoFlorida seems to have a leprosy problem, and armadillos might be playing a role.The state has seen dozens of reported cases in recent years, many of which were...
Brooks Mendenhall, AstronomyStar formation in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has been slowing down over the last 500 million years, according to a new study using Hubble Space Telescope...
Michael Aaron Cody, RealClearScienceThe notion of a static universe wasn't always fringe. Albert Einstein himself first applied general relativity to a
Austin Burgess, The DebriefAstronomers searching for
Marcia Dunn, Associated PressA driftingSpaceXrocket is on a collision course with
Michelle Starr, Science AlertIn recent years, our perception of the ocean's pecking order has been turned on its head.Ever sinceJaws,
Jonathan Jarry, Office for Science and SocietyPraying to heal from illness is possibly the oldest form of alternative medicine. When that prayer is made to a divine being on behalf of...