The June Bootids meteor shower may seem very faint almost every year, but throughout its history, extremely rare bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour have been recorded, causing many people to look up at the sky
Have you ever stepped outside on a warm June night hoping for a sky full of streaks, only to see almost nothing? That is…..
A Russian university has just unveiled a tractor attachment that injects cooled exhaust gases directly into the soil—a highly unusual idea that promises to benefit crops but requires extensive testing under real-world conditions
A Russian university team has presented a tractor attachment that sends cooled exhaust gas from a working farm machine straight into the soil. The…..
Science
The June Bootids meteor shower may seem very faint almost every year, but throughout its history, extremely rare bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour have been recorded, causing many people to look up at the sky
Have you ever stepped outside on a warm June night hoping for a sky full…..
NASA is teaming up with Relativity Space, a newbie in the space exploration field, and not Space X, for a project mapping the violent seasons on Mars due to take off in 2028
NASA has confirmed a new private partner for its next Mars science mission, and this…..
NASA is preparing an extremely unusual rescue mission to save the Swift telescope, an observatory launched in 2004 that has been recording cosmic explosions and was never meant to be recovered
NASA is preparing one of the most unusual rescue attempts in spaceflight history. The Neil…..
It all began with a strange echo around 14 giant black holes; scientists now believe it could indicate massive concentrations of dark matter, the mysterious component that makes up 27% of the universe
Supermassive black holes have already gained the reputation of being the universe’s most extreme phenomena……
Our galaxy isn’t stationary but hurtling at full speed toward a hidden gravitational anomaly located between 150 and 250 million light-years away
Even when your phone is lying on a table, it is not truly standing still……
It all began with dozens of small earthquakes that no one detected; now, a 64-page study suggests that they may have been a precursor to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck nine days earlier
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck offshore Kamchatka on July 29, 2025, was not just…..
Everything seemed to point to a simple “malfunction” in the brain until a decade of research began to reveal a different reality: tinnitus could be a side effect of a mechanism that tries to keep hearing alive
That high-pitched ringing in the ears may not be just an annoying glitch. A new…..
Science discovers the “point of no return” for mosquitoes: the mathematical trick that could forever change the fight against malaria
Malaria control often comes down to a frustrating race against mosquitoes. Nets, sprays, medicines, and…..
A few cookie crumbs on a trail may seem insignificant, but a new study conducted in Panama suggests that they can distract ants from a task that is key to a plant’s expansion
A few cookie crumbs on a hiking trail may not look like much, but a…..
Cockroaches already seemed indestructible, but a new genomic study has just revealed something even stranger: they harbor thousands of fragments of bacterial DNA hidden within their own genome
Cockroaches already have a reputation for surviving almost anything. Now, a new genome study suggests…..
Mobility
China’s wild idea: a 1,118-mile rail bridge across the Gobi that dares gravity, sandstorms, and basic common sense
A new rail bridge rising out of the Gobi has been described as a 1,118-mile mega-project that…..
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart to pick up the world’s largest battery-electric ferry for South America, and the scale point is that the vessel is about 430 feet long and built to carry around 2,100 passengers on the Argentina-Uruguay route
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart, Tasmania, for an unusual job. The MV Black Marlin will…..
Energy
Economy
Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition
Europe’s clean-energy race may have a new flashpoint in central Spain. In Campo de Montiel,…..
The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads
It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile…..
European beavers turn out to be secret carbon hoarders, stashing 26 % more than any human climate model guessed
No one expected the humble beaver dam to look like climate infrastructure. Yet a new…..
Egypt’s dead-serious plan: build an entire desert city from scratch and crown it with a 1,312-foot skyscraper that nobody saw coming
Egypt is building a new capital from scratch in the desert about 28 miles east…..
Construction of Jeddah Tower just reached the 100th floor, and the number that makes it feel unreal is the target, more than 3,280 feet tall with over 167 floors as Saudi Arabia aims for the world’s tallest building by 2028
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower has moved past a milestone that once sounded almost unreal. The…..
Elon Musk admits that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem
During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..
Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete
Saudi Arabia has some of the largest deserts on Earth, but in 2023 it still…..
ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy
ExxonMobil shareholders have approved moving the oil giant’s legal home from New Jersey to Texas,…..
An 11,000-carat ruby find (about 4.85 pounds) reshapes mining in Myanmar, and the giant stone reopens the debate over value, traceability, and the real price of gemstones
Miners near Mogok, Myanmar, have unearthed an 11,000-carat rough ruby, a find large enough to…..
What started as a routine highway survey near Hradec Králové turned into one of Bohemia’s biggest Celtic finds, a 62-acre settlement where archaeologists pulled up gold and silver coins, Baltic amber, and workshops that suggest a production center, not just a stopover
A future highway in the Czech Republic has led archaeologists to something far older than…..
Technology
Environment
A mixed bag for soybean farmers growing the crop in our future climate: higher yields but with poorer nutritional profiles
Climate change may bring a strange twist to one of the world’s most important crops……
It looks like a yellow toy floating in a lagoon, but it has a huge mission: to find the most resilient corals before the ocean warms up again
A small yellow robot is sliding across an emerald lagoon in Majuro, and its job…..
It all began with an extremely salty current flowing every day from the Mediterranean; now, a ship is traversing the ocean to investigate the Atlantic’s great climate engine
A new oceanographic campaign is heading into the Atlantic to study a climate question hiding…..
The enormous mass of warm water in the Pacific that has just “woken up” and could influence storms, wildfires, monsoons, and temperatures through 2027
El Niño has returned to the tropical Pacific, and this one is already raising concern…..
An animal about the size of a small house cat has just caused quite a stir in Mexico after becoming the first known photographic evidence of the mysterious Cozumel dwarf fox
For more than two decades, one of the world’s rarest wild dogs seemed to have…..
Georgia has just created a $2 million fund to save farms before these centuries-old fields are turned into housing developments, warehouses, and data centers
Georgia is trying to protect working farms before more fields become subdivisions, warehouses, and data…..
Everything pointed to another cut, but Grand Staircase-Escalante has just narrowly avoided, at the last minute, a decision that would have forever changed one of the most impressive natural monuments in the United States
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules…..
NASA photos reveal San Carlos Reservoir shrinking to a mud-ring, visual proof that drought plus demand equals trouble
San Carlos Reservoir in Arizona has become a stark snapshot of what drought can do…..
