Science

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
Scientists can't believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain

Scientists can’t believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain

April 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
A close-up view of pristine, dark rocky grains collected from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu.

An asteroid located about 300 million kilometers away contained the five basic letters of DNA and RNA, and the discovery once again calls into question the idea that life began only on Earth

April 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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
Ediacaran fossils preserved in rock at Mistaken Point in Newfoundland, linked to research on Earth’s first major animal extinction.

Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago

April 27, 2026 at 6:30 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
Illustration of Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS passing through the inner solar system, with an inset showing its fragmented nucleus.

Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low

April 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ancient Pueblo bow-and-arrow artifacts showing early hunting technology in the North American Southwest.

Researchers have analyzed 136 weapons using carbon-14 dating and have been able to pinpoint exactly when the bow-and-arrow era began in North America

April 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up of a Xiphactinus audax fossil skull and teeth from the Smithsonian collection.

They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish

April 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Dinosaur footprint fossil on the Isle of Skye, where Jurassic tracks have helped scientists study ancient dinosaur movement.

The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”

April 27, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Lightning flashes over trees during a thunderstorm, illustrating research on ultraviolet corona discharges in forest canopies

What they observed over the course of 90 minutes in the branches of a tree in the midst of a storm seems straight out of a science-fiction novel: 41 ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye and a major unanswered mystery

April 26, 2026 at 3:00 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
Aerial view of dramatic rock folds and desert ridges in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

The folds in a 180-million-year-old rock hold a story that baffles scientists

April 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Artist’s illustration of two young planets colliding and producing a large cloud of dust around a distant star

Astronomers have detected, for the first time and in real time, a violent collision between two young planets located 11,000 light-years away

April 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Artist’s illustration of a magma ocean exoplanet with a glowing molten surface and thick sulfur-rich atmosphere

Scientists reveal a new class of hellish planets with a permanent ocean of magma

April 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Fossil of the oldest known docodontan from Greenland, linked to Nujalikodon cassiopeiae and early mammal evolution

Scientists have identified a tiny creature, just 0.06 inches long and 200 million years old, hiding in an ancient burrow in Greenland; it lived at a time when dinosaurs already ruled the Earth

April 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Illustration of glowing neurons connected in a brain network, representing hippocampus activity after cryopreservation research.

Scientists have succeeded in reactivating a mouse’s hippocampus after freezing and thawing it

April 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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