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Close-up conceptual image of a bacterium used to illustrate concerns about synthetic mirror-life microbes

Scientists warn about synthetic bacteria that could threaten life as we know it

April 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft approaching the Dimorphos and Didymos asteroid system in space

For the first time, humanity significantly altered the orbit of a celestial body

April 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interior view of Scărișoara Ice Cave in Romania, where scientists recovered an ancient bacterium from millennia-old ice

Scientists extract a bacterium over 5,000 years old from the ice and discover something disturbing: it was already resistant to ten modern antibiotics long before our medicine existed

April 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ian González Santos during a university degree ceremony with academic recognition in Mexico

Ian Emmanuel, molecular biologist at age 12, on his school: “They told me I had attention deficit disorder”

April 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cladosporium sphaerospermum fungus growing in a high-radiation environment linked to Chernobyl research

A form of life has been detected in Chernobyl that not only resists radiation, but seems to use it to grow

April 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Solar storm activity affecting satellites in low Earth orbit with potential impact on GPS and communications

The new threat that worries scientists does not come from Earth, but from the Sun, and could affect satellites, GPS, and communications

April 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton showing foot structure linked to bird-like toe walking gait in new study

Goodbye to the T. rex from “Jurassic Park”: a new study argues that it didn’t run like a giant reptile, but with a gait much more similar to that of an ostrich

April 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Seismic map of Northern California showing earthquake activity near the Mendocino Triple Junction and hidden fault structures

What appeared to be a simple union of plates in California hides a much more chaotic system, and these small earthquakes have just exposed it

April 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope is tracking the four icy fragments of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as they travel through space, while a puzzling 48-hour delay in the increase in brightness is forcing theorists at Auburn University to rethink all their hypotheses about the timeline of its disintegration

The Hubble Space Telescope is tracking the four icy fragments of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as they travel through space, while a puzzling 48-hour delay in the increase in brightness is forcing theorists at Auburn University to rethink all their hypotheses about the timeline of its disintegration

April 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Fossilized reptile skin impression with visible scale patterns from the Early Permian discovered in Germany

The oldest reptile skin prints ever seen have been discovered in Germany, and what is most surprising is that they are almost 300 million years old

April 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Birdwatcher using binoculars observing birds in nature linked to brain changes in attention and memory

Birdwatching for years not only changes what you see, but it could also be reshaping your brain in ways that surprise neuroscientists

April 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Red sprite lightning captured from the ISS above a thunderstorm reaching high into the upper atmosphere

Astronauts photograph from the ISS a red electrical phenomenon exploding above storms at altitudes of up to 89 kilometers (about 55 miles)—a phenomenon that for decades seemed nothing more than a pilot’s legend

April 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Satellite view of the horseshoe-shaped Yilan impact crater in China, showing the forested rim and central farmlands.

NASA observes China from space and discovers a giant structure hidden in plain sight that not even an entire forest has managed to conceal from the crater

April 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
An aerial view of a harvested farm field in Bohemia with overlaid digital infrared highlights showing the outlines of prehistoric long barrows.

Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history

April 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A satellite-style map of the Barents Sea showing warm Atlantic currents flowing north into the Arctic Ocean.

The Barents Sea is receiving more and more warm water, and scientists believe they have finally found the reason that had eluded them for 40 years

April 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A fossilized impression of a frond-like Charnia organism found at the Inner Meadow site in Newfoundland.

A 551-million-year-old site is forcing us to rewrite our understanding of an early mass extinction, and the loss of life may have been much greater than previously thought

April 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Rocky shoreline and sea view facing a large mountain across the Strait of Gibraltar, illustrating the tectonic zone linked to Iberia’s slow geological movement.

Spain and Portugal are not standing still, and the geological change that experts have just confirmed completely changes our understanding of the Peninsula

April 18, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Bed bug near a damp surface avoiding contact with water

Bed bugs fear something very common in the home, and science has just discovered that water makes them flee at full speed

April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Submerged ruins of a medieval settlement on the floor of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, with stone structures and graves underwater

The archaeological discovery of the century: an Atlantis-like city discovered at the bottom of a lake

April 17, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Perseverance rover on Mars capturing dust storm activity and electrical discharges

Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible

April 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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