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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
Two researchers smiling in a laboratory setting, with one pointing to a microscope and computer monitor displaying cryopreserved brain cells.

For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions

May 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Portrait of a famous theoretical physicist in a wheelchair, warning humanity must expand into space to survive 1,000 years

Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”

May 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Large-scale data center infrastructure powering artificial intelligence systems with high energy and cooling demands

Italy’s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without saying so, are training their own replacements

May 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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
Flexible wearable patch that generates electricity from sweat using an enzymatic biofuel cell printed on a thin substrate

Japanese scientists have created a device capable of converting sweat into electricity, and the idea seems so outlandish that it is hard not to want to find out how it works

May 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Chest CT scan highlighting the thymus gland and its structure used to assess immune system health in adults

There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years

May 1, 2026 at 12:30 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
Artistic visualization of multiple exoplanets in habitable zones identified as candidates for future life detection studies

There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.

May 1, 2026 at 8:45 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
llustration of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens individuals representing interbreeding patterns revealed by X chromosome DNA analysis

What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?

April 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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
Global weather map showing temperature and rainfall anomalies linked to a potential super El Niño event

Meteorologists are beginning to talk about a possible super El Niño in the coming months, and that combination already points to maps filled with heat, extreme rainfall, and very rare phenomena

April 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal male and a Homo sapiens female illustrating interbreeding patterns suggested by genetic research

A new study suggests that human women and Neanderthal men interbred much more frequently than previously thought, which rewrites part of the history of our origins

April 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Living robots gain primitive nervous systems, opening new paths for sensing, movement, and environmental monitoring

Xenobots made from frog cells are no longer just biological robots; they now also have something resembling a primitive nervous system, and that changes everything a little more

April 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM

They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared

April 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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 image of a resilient tardigrade, also known as a water bear, crawling among fine dust particles.

Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection

April 29, 2026 at 5:00 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
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