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Gloved hands holding a semiconductor wafer linked to research on safer plasma processing for future ultrathin chips.

A chip material only three atoms thick was hit with plasma, and a tiny chemical trick changed what happened next

June 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Dinner table with salads, bread, water glasses, and plates of food, reflecting research on hidden food chemicals.

It all started with a simple bowl of oatmeal and an apple; now scientists believe that these foods contain more than 139,000 compounds that could change the way we understand nutrition

June 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Illustration of a glowing ultrathin superconducting layer flowing over a sculpted nanoscale surface.

It all began with a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair; now scientists believe they have found an unexpected way to manufacture much more efficient superconductors

June 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Satellite image of Tropical Storm Arthur swirling over the Gulf Coast as heavy rain bands spread across the Southeast.

The season’s first named storm might morph out of Gulf Coast rainclouds—Mother Nature’s reminder she writes the calendar

June 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Malawian woman farmer standing in her homestead with chickens and small-scale farm structures

A Malawian farmer’s tiny plot became a blueprint for climate-smart ag without billionaire budgets

June 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Open-pit view of the Panguna mine in Bougainville, where communities are demanding justice for decades of pollution

Bougainville locals want justice for a toxic mine scar, proving “ghost” pollution never sleeps

June 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mother and child overlook mining pollution in Cerro de Pasco, Peru

Peru’s Cerro de Pasco villagers haul a mining giant into court, demanding someone clean up a century-old mess

June 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Box of smuggled shark fins hiding illegal marine wildlife products inside a shipment

Traffickers’ new nightmare: Artificial intelligence detects shark fins hidden in suitcases with 95% accuracy

June 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A diver illegally harvesting protected purple sea urchins from the rocky seabed within the Gaiola Underwater Park marine reserve.

Farewell to sea urchins: Italy sounds the alarm after discovering nighttime poaching that is depleting the Mediterranean seabed

June 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A wild chacma baboon sitting on a residential fence in Rooiels, South Africa, while residents maintain a cautious distance.

Rooiels surprises the world with a herd of 47 baboons that appears without warning, forcing residents to lock their doors, while demonstrating that coexistence between humans and wildlife is still possible in the 21st century

June 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Williams' electric blue day gecko perched on a pandanus plant in Tanzania's Kimboza Forest Reserve, where conservation efforts are helping the endangered species recover.

A tiny blue gecko staged an epic comeback, reminding conservationists size doesn’t dictate surprise factor

June 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Blue-fronted Lorikeet perched in the cloud forest of Mount Kapalatmada on Buru Island, where researchers confirmed the rare parrot's rediscovery.

A “lost” parrot was rediscovered on a remote Indonesian peak, proving extinction rumors can be greatly exaggerated

June 28, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Tapanuli orangutan in the Batang Toru rainforest, the only place where the rare ape survives

Landslides triggered by wild weather killed 58 ultra-rare orangutans, showing climate change doesn’t play fair

June 27, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Loggerhead turtle nesting on a Boa Vista beach as a night patrol team monitors the sand with red light

Loggerhead turtles on Cabo Verde just pulled off an 80-fold nesting boom, turning the beach into a reptile rave

June 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Illustration of a neutron star releasing radio emissions through intense magnetic field lines in deep space

Neutron stars may double as dark-matter detectors — because who wouldn’t use cosmic wrecking balls for science?

June 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
X-ray view of the Perseus galaxy cluster core showing hot gas around its central galaxy

XRISM is reading the Perseus cluster’s elemental gossip, one X-ray whisper at a time

June 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut working on NASA’s Cold Atom Lab hardware inside the International Space Station

The Space Station’s quantum lab just went colder, edging scientists closer to physics so weird it makes gravity blush

June 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way, where astronomers believe the IRS 13 star cluster may have carved a mini-cavity in surrounding gas.

Forget about epic explosions: just 300 years ago, a swarm of hyper-powerful stars would have left a perfect crater next to the central black hole… and today, astronomers see it as a kind of space graffiti that’s still smoldering

June 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbits Earth as the agency prepares a robotic mission to raise the aging space telescope into a higher orbit.

NASA is launching its wildest plan since “Apollo 13”: launching a Pegasus rocket from the air, releasing the LINK spacecraft into the middle of the Pacific, and catching the veteran Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it crashes like a burning hunk of scrap metal onto your roof

June 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station, where ultracold atoms are used to study quantum physics in microgravity.

The microwave-sized mini-refrigerator floating 400 km above Earth has just put atoms into “ghost mode” at –273 °C, and NASA scientists believe this experiment could equip future rockets with a “galactic GPS” that not even errors in solar signals could throw off course

June 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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