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An Earth-based telescope turned the Artemis II crew into a handful of pixels from more than 200,000 miles away, and the twist is that the 328-foot Green Bank Telescope tracked the capsule with precision down to 0.008 inches per second
Before Stonehenge became the great symbol of the solstice, it is possible that two simple wooden posts located in Bulford were already marking the summer sunrise some 5,000 years ago
One of Africa’s rarest crocodiles survives in the murky rivers of Ivory Coast, and, according to estimates by conservation experts, fewer than 500 adult specimens remain in the wild
Almost 20 years after his death, Elliott Smith, born on August 6, 1969, has just received a very unusual tribute: a minor planet discovered in 2014 will officially bear his name in the solar system
What looks like a beautiful dance in the Kushiro wetlands could be a secret conversation between two cranes, featuring a series of bows, poses, and movements that last up to three minutes and respond to each other’s gestures
A man with severe paralysis caused by ALS used a brain implant at home for more than 3,800 hours and was able to convert his attempts to speak into text, computer-generated information, and a voice similar to his own
A frightened bat ray could warn the others without making a sound or splashing, by releasing a chemical signal into the water that its neighbors detect within seconds
A community that was driven from its forest lands in the 1970s now protects 71,700 acres in the Congo and has managed to reduce deforestation by 87% in just one year
The famous Himalayan viper, first described in 1864, has just lost its unique identity, as scientists have discovered that five species were previously grouped under that name
Ancient teeth preserved in museums may harbor a vast microbial archive, and a new preliminary article suggests that dental plaque reveals how diet has influenced the oral bacteria of mammals
A Montana county commissioner wanted to prepare his county in case coal revenues dried up, and voters ousted him from office in a Republican primary that served as a warning to other mining communities
The plague may have claimed the lives of children in hunter-gatherer communities in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before medieval cities, flea-infested rats, and the dreaded Black Death existed
The fight against climate change is entering a challenging phase: it is no longer enough to simply reduce pollution, and scientists are talking about removing up to 9,700 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050
Homo erectus teeth dating back about 400,000 years, found in China, have just revealed an unexpected clue about a possible family connection to the mysterious Denisovans
Could an AI model read a whole stack of documents in one go without slowing to a crawl? That is the claim now drawing attention around SubQ, a new large language model from the Miami startup Subquadratic
Researchers have just observed a jumping gene doing something extremely unusual: jumping from a tiny predatory bacterium to the dead cells of another species, like a thief sneaking into an empty house
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








