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Artist's impression of a rocky super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star in the GJ 887 system.

A super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light-years away, which could harbor an atmosphere and water, but reaching it with current technology would take us about 15,000 years

May 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A massive 882-pound ocean sunfish washed ashore on the sandy beach of Marina di Ravenna, Italy.

A huge ocean sunfish has washed up at Marina di Ravenna, and the appearance of this elusive creature on the Italian coast has turned a beaching into a biological mystery

May 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
That lump on your back is NOT normal: a “buffalo hump” could be an early sign of diabetes, high cholesterol, or liver damage… and almost no one knows how to spot it in time

That lump on your back is NOT normal: a “buffalo hump” could be an early sign of diabetes, high cholesterol, or liver damage… and almost no one knows how to spot it in time

May 3, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Blackboard with Albert Einstein quote about education alongside classroom setting focused on sustainability learning

Albert Einstein, scientist: “Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school”

May 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NASA Van Allen Probe A reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific after years studying radiation belts

After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm

May 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Visualization of particle collision tracks used to identify the Xi-cc-plus baryon in a high-energy physics detector

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems

May 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Global map visualization showing the seasonal movement and northeast shift of Earth’s vegetation center based on satellite data

The planet’s green belt is shifting, and scientists are concerned: terrestrial vegetation is moving northeast at an accelerating rate

May 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Atomic-scale image of a carbon ring molecule with half Möbius electron topology mapped using scanning probe microscopy

They have created a molecule never before seen in nature with an extremely strange half-Möbius topology, and even the electrons behave in a very unusual way inside it

May 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star in the habitable zone

A potentially habitable super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light years away, and the big question of what might be waiting for us out there returns with a vengeance

April 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man showing a human figure inscribed in a circle and square with geometric proportions

After 500 years, they believe they have found the key that could solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s most famous and enigmatic drawing.

April 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
View of the Moon’s surface illustrating a proposed site for a lunar gravitational-wave detector designed to capture faint cosmic signals

Scientists want to build an instrument on the Moon capable of detecting black hole collisions, and the Moon’s near-total silence could be the key to the project’s success

April 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A microscopic visualization of brain tissue neurons glowing after being successfully thawed from a deep cryogenic freeze.

They froze a brain and then managed to reactivate its electrical activity—a phrase that sounds like science fiction, but is already becoming a central part of real scientific discourse

April 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A microscopic visualization of the drug-resistant Candida auris fungus spreading.

The Candida auris fungus is once again setting off alarms in hospitals across New York and New Jersey due to its drug resistance and the speed at which it can worsen the situation

April 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Wild boar standing in a grassy field as a 20-year study reveals peak crop damage months

Wild boars have been wreaking havoc on crops for years in what appears to be a random manner, but 9,871 reports of damage now reveal that their incursions follow a surprisingly predictable pattern

April 28, 2026 at 1:15 PM
A new missile using storable liquid fuel could reshape hypersonic defense by simplifying logistics and reducing handling risks

There is already a flight-tested hypersonic missile that, for the first time, runs on storable liquid fuel, and that small technical detail could mean a major shift in defense

April 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Prehistoric pottery vessel with burnt food residue inside, linked to a study on ancient European cuisine.

An analysis of food remains found in pottery dating back 5,000 to 8,000 years is changing what we knew about prehistoric European cuisine

April 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Hand holding rice husks after harvest

They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought

April 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Astronaut view of the Richat Structure, or Eye of the Sahara, showing concentric rings in the Mauritanian desert

NASA observes the Sahara from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic eye nearly 50 kilometers wide, whose origin is not as cosmic as it seems

April 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Massive stone block from the Lighthouse of Alexandria being lifted from the sea during the PHAROS archaeology project

Twenty-two giant blocks from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from the seabed, and this discovery is rewriting the history of one of the world’s most famous wonders

April 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves where researchers found high microplastic accumulation

A study published on December 17, 2025, on mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean reveals that small crabs measuring just 1.2 inches can accumulate up to 13 times more microplastics than the mud and convert some of them into nanoplastics

April 26, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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