Science

The sun seems unchanging—a constant source of light and warmth for Earth and the most fundamental necessity for life as we know it. But nothing in this universe is unending….

A new analysis led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) suggests that liquid nitrogen may be moving upward through cracks and reaching the surface of Pluto near the northern edge of…

Nuclear fusion energy, the idea of copying the sun’s heat source on earth to make limitless commercial energy is famously always 30 years away. This month, the UK and US…

The brain keeps one of the strictest guest lists in the body. Oxygen and nutrients may enter. Toxins, germs, and other substances traveling through the blood are turned away. Controlling…

North Korea’s Mount Mantap is being rocked by earthquakes—and the reason appears to be the pariah state’s nuclear tests. It’s been almost 10 years since North Korea last conducted an…

Among the many surprises uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the strangest has been a large population of tiny, intensely red objects known as Little Red Dots….

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity does not discriminate. Matter, antimatter – it’s all the same as far as gravity is concerned, and it all should fall in…

The UK and US are expanding their partnership on fusion energy, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI), advanced computing and simpler rules for developing fusion plants. The agreements were…

Tiny particles from space are passing through Earth all the time, even though we cannot see, hear, feel, taste, or smell them. Many of these particles are linked to cosmic…

Deep in the Bolivian Yungas cloud forests, there stalks an utterly adorable beast: smaller than a house cat and spotted like a leopard, the creature has long been known to…

Although the video game landscape is already pretty firmly in the ninth generation (with games like Grand Theft Auto 6 already looking to push the bounds of current-gen consoles), there’s…

The brain’s microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration. Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn extending from nerve cells, some axons resemble strings of tiny…

A “baby” exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The planetary infant is less than…

It was a late evening in March 1929. Twenty-six-year-old Fritz Houtermans was out for a walk with Charlotte Riefenstahl, a fellow young physicist. Both had received their doctorates in theoretical…

Dogs are humanity’s best animal friend. But when it comes to the science of dogs, we’ve been shortchanging our four-legged buddies, says Federico Rossano. A cognitive researcher at the University…

No one expected Spider-Man: Brand New Day to flop — its box office projections were set incredibly high for a reason — but the speed at which it surpassed those…

Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet yet, a world less than 1 million years old that is still surrounded by the gas and dust from which it formed. The…

Stranger Things began as a sci-fi adventure the whole family could watch. But after five seasons and 10 years, it morphed into an small-screen epic about metaphysics, secret military operations,…

Spill your piggy bank on the table and try to lay out as many quarters as you can. Quarters must lie flat; they can touch at their edges as long…

UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE), the body charged with delivering Britain’s prototype fusion power plant, has become a Tier 1 member of the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). In doing so,…

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structures in the skull bone marrow of mice. The findings suggest these nearby…

Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death. Neither one is BMI. Today, body mass index (BMI) is the go-to…

A 600-year-old book that once belonged to a personal attendant of King Henry VIII is helping to reveal the shifting allegiances and religious ferment that captured the Tudor court, shaping…

Scientists have long debated where the raw material that formed Earth originally came from. Although our planet sits in the inner Solar System, many researchers have proposed that 6-40 percent…

A surprising link between oral health and the brain is growing stronger by the year. In a long-term study in Japan, bleeding and receding gums were linked to a substantially…

Engineers at compact fusion company nT-Tao have brought a 50-megawatt pulsed-power subsystem into active service. The hardware delivers high-energy bursts to the company’s C3 prototype, a machine designed to test…

I’m looking at a box of faces. That sounds a little creepy, but it is a little creepy looking at the box of carefully arranged miniature resin masks that LAIKA…

Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate what the animals were seeing. The study, led by researchers at University College…

Humans are living longer and longer. Now Japan has broken a new record for longevity: more than 100,000 people in the country are centenarians—some 107,677 of them are at least…