Menstruation has been a part of astronauts’ space travel for decades, but in 2027 it could, for the first time, become the focus of a specific experiment conducted in microgravity conditions
Menstruation has followed astronauts into orbit for decades, but it has never been the central question of a dedicated spaceflight experiment. That is the…..
The country with the largest forest area in South America may face a momentous decision: to accept large-scale soybean farming and cattle ranching projects or to protect the rivers, communities, and forests that took centuries to form
Suriname is being offered a familiar promise. Large-scale foreign agribusiness will modernize farming, create jobs, and bring prosperity. Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and president of…..
Science
SETI tracked the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for more than 7 hours and analyzed nearly 74 million radio signals; the results point to something less spectacular, but just as fascinating: a natural comet
SETI has finished one of the strangest and most revealing checks yet on 3I/ATLAS, the…..
The Moon will no longer be just the place where humans left their footprints in 1969; now, NASA and China want to build bases, landing strips, control towers, and shelters there, but a fundamental regulation is still missing
Humanity is not just planning to visit the Moon again. It is preparing to build…..
On May 30, a loud boom shook Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and NASA traced it to a meteor that broke apart with the force of 300 tons of TNT
A sudden boom rattled parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire on May 30, and for…..
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…..
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
The green economy has just surpassed $10 trillion and would already be the world’s third-largest industry if it were counted as a separate sector
The green economy has crossed a striking line, $10 trillion in market value. A new…..
The inexpensive white fish that many people keep in their freezers has just shown signs of recovery: Vietnam’s exports to the U.S. increased by 4% between January and April 2026
The U.S. market has sent Vietnam’s pangasius industry a cautious but important signal of recovery……
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,…..
Technology
Environment
The country with the largest forest area in South America may face a momentous decision: to accept large-scale soybean farming and cattle ranching projects or to protect the rivers, communities, and forests that took centuries to form
Suriname is being offered a familiar promise. Large-scale foreign agribusiness will modernize farming, create jobs,…..
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…..
