What these chimpanzees did with some pieces of glass suggests a story that began millions of years ago
A new experiment with rescued chimpanzees suggests our pull toward crystals might be far older than modern “crystal culture.” When researchers placed crystals alongside…..
He is only 14 years old, used a 10-year-old camera, and won the world’s most important macro photography contest with a photo of bees in India
Young wildlife photographer Rithved Girish has been named Young Close‑up Photographer of the Year 7 for his image “Guardians of the Hive,” winning the…..
Samsung is preparing a $4 billion push in Asia to fortify its position in the global chip and AI war
Science
What these chimpanzees did with some pieces of glass suggests a story that began millions of years ago
A new experiment with rescued chimpanzees suggests our pull toward crystals might be far older…..
Goodbye to dependence on critical metals: scientists create a new form of aluminum that defies what we thought was possible and could make the industry of the future more affordable
What if one of the most common metals on Earth could do a job we…..
The big clue to a very human ability may lie with female chimpanzees
If you have ever watched a toddler “pour” tea from an empty cup, you have…..
Brazil is in shock after detecting an extremely rare mutation in a wild bird, and the discovery is already alarming experts
A routine birdwatching moment in Tocantins, Brazil, ended with a surprise that even seasoned observers…..
NASA is monitoring storms from the International Space Station, and what it’s observing about blue jets, sprites, and ELVES could forever change the way we predict extreme weather events
If you have ever watched a thunderstorm roll in, you know the basics. Dark clouds,…..
Scientists believe they’ve found a way to travel at the speed of light, but there’s one detail dampening the excitement: humanity would have to wait 1,000 years to test it
A new scientific paper is adding fresh fuel to one of space science’s most stubborn…..
Scientists warn about synthetic bacteria that could threaten life as we know it
What if the next big biological threat is not a new virus, but a microbe…..
In 1940, a boy followed his dog through a clearing in the trees and ended up entering a cave that had remained sealed for millennia, where he found more than 2,000 images and animals painted 17,000 years ago
The famous paintings of Lascaux sit beneath a wooded hill near Montignac in southwestern France,…..
For the first time, humanity significantly altered the orbit of a celestial body
In September 2022, NASA deliberately smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid called Dimorphos. The…..
NASA observes Argentina from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic pink heart nearly 10 kilometers wide, whose color does not have as romantic an origin as it seems
NASA just shared a Valentine that doubles as an ecology lesson. An astronaut aboard the…..
Mobility
India is inaugurating its first “red road” to save wildlife, and the trick is not fences or speed cameras, but a surface that forces drivers to slow down almost without realizing it.
If you have ever slammed the brakes because a deer, boar, or stray dog suddenly appeared in…..
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after George H. W. Bush returns from the Atlantic after completing key maneuvers, and the maneuver once again puts the spotlight on a decisive phase before deployment
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush has been spotted returning to Naval Station Norfolk in…..
Energy
Economy
A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat
Plans are taking shape for a major expansion at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo that could…..
The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian…..
It’s very rare to see so much gold in one place: gold bars and nearly 1,000 coins are being auctioned off in France, with a total value exceeding 2 million
In Angers, France, more than €2 million (roughly more than $2.3 million) in gold bars…..
It’s not about lithium or batteries: the problem driving up the cost of electric cars and wind power might lie in a tiny magnet, and a new AI has already found a way to do without rare earth elements
What if one of the biggest obstacles to cleaner cars and cheaper wind power is…..
What they have discovered in the Andes Mountains, between Argentina and Chile, is not just any mine, but a colossal deposit containing up to 84 billion pounds of copper, tens of millions of ounces of gold and silver, and a potential that is already revolutionizing the market
A copper, gold, and silver find in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border is drawing…..
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Environment
He is only 14 years old, used a 10-year-old camera, and won the world’s most important macro photography contest with a photo of bees in India
Young wildlife photographer Rithved Girish has been named Young Close‑up Photographer of the Year 7…..
For more than a century, the ocean has prevented a severe global drought, but almost no one has described it that way
What if drought hit several of the world’s biggest food-growing regions at the same time?…..
An illegal operation is uncovered deep in the forest, and the discovery of trees felled without permission reignites a silent war against the last remaining green lungs
How can a company hold a valid timber permit and still end up at the…..
85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are rewriting Earth’s climate history and shaking up paleontology
How do you date something as fragile as an eggshell after it has spent tens…..
Mexico pulls a “land-based Panama Canal” out of its hat: 303 km across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to connect the Pacific and the Gulf without passing through locks
In southern Mexico, bulldozers and rail crews are reshaping one of the narrowest slices of…..
An error in hundreds of sea level studies could change the map of coastal risks
Coastal flooding risk often comes down to one basic comparison, how high the ocean is…..
What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon
When drought tightens its grip on tropical forests, the biggest changes are not always in…..
California may be overlooking a type of earthquake that is much more destructive than it appeared
Most Californians know the basic earthquake drill. Keep water and a flashlight, secure heavy furniture,…..
