After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s $10 billion…
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The wave function of a quantum object may not just be a mathematical constructPobytov/Getty Images Does quantum mechanics really reflect…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A “transformation” is upon us. After a multi-year procession of educational technology products that once promised…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is extremely irradiated from billions of years of cosmic ray bombardments, new research using observations from the James…
The mummified remains of a boy buried in a copper box between 1617 and 1814Annamaria Alabiso An adolescent boy buried…
Credit: Acta Biomaterialia (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2025.09.026 Researchers from Skoltech, ITMO University, and their colleagues have reported new findings about the…
A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved.For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why…
Neanderthals may have used ochre crayons to draw on cave wallsGorodenkoff/Getty Images A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Digital authoritarianism is a new way governments are trying to control citizens using digital and information…
An astronomer recently aimed his telescope above Manciano, Italy, and caught something incredible: a bright comet seemingly wrapped up in…
Exercise has significant benefits for heart healthIan Canham/Alamy Men over 50 may have to exercise more than twice as much…
Doubling fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels is linked to a 2.6-fold increase in workplace accident risk, 37% more fatalities, and…
Every fall, pumpkin growers haul their record-breaking giants onto scales, with some pumpkins weighing more than 2,700 pounds (1,225 kilograms).…
Jared Lepora with his robot hand built from Lego Mindstorms piecesNathan Lepora A robot hand built from Lego pieces by…
Sky region of the first observations with 4MOST with an example spectrum. In the Sculptor Galaxy (top right), 4MOST took…
A 2,700-year-old pottery sherd discovered near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the first known correspondence between the Assyrian Kingdom…
People with fibromyalgia have different genetic variants than those without itKATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images We are starting to unpick…
OTOCs as interferometers. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09526-6 Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran…
Newly released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appear to show the alien object spitting out an enormous jet of…
An Asian palm civetKurit afshen/Shutterstock Coffee beans collected from the faeces of civets have a unique chemistry that may explain…
True PNe from the HASH database are displayed in an Aitoff projection. Colors indicate PNe in different galactic components: blue…
Dark matter near the center of our galaxy is “flattened,” not round as previously thought, new simulations reveal. The discovery…
Different people may benefit from some antidepressants over others, depending on their side effectsMariia Veklenko/Getty Images Antidepressants vary greatly in…
Researchers utilize 2D electrical resistivity imaging and borehole data to estimate N60-value of soils with k-means clustering. Credit: Institute of…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Dek and Daga, Ethiopia [11.907552854, 37.285011102]What’s in the photo? A pair of islands in the middle…
Illustration of Chiron’s ringsDan Durda For the first time, astronomers are watching a ring system form in real time. The…
Ruth Deidree Boelan prays for her relatives who went missing in recent flooding when their home on a riverbank collapsed.…
A lab accident has led engineers to build a chip that fires a rainbow of powerful laser beams — and…
Some problems are too hard for even quantum computersYaroslav Kushta/Getty Images Researchers have identified a “nightmare scenario” calculation related to…
Credit: Horticulture Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhae334 Phytochelatin synthases (PCSs) produce phytochelatins—tiny, cysteine-rich peptides that bind and neutralize toxic metal ions…