Science

X-ray image of altermagnetic domains in an ultrathin manganese telluride film studied by researchers.

Scientists have managed to manipulate for the first time a type of magnetism that no one had ever seen in action: “altermagnetism” could revolutionize data storage.

March 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Microscopic image of Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, a 46,000 year old worm revived from Siberian permafrost.

A frozen worm buried for more than 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost awakens in a laboratory and baffles scientists: it has survived more than half a million times its natural life expectancy

March 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
NASA satellite image showing wildfires burning across snowy Arctic terrain near the North Pole

NASA captured it from space, and it looks like a bad joke: fire burning on the ice of the North Pole. The scary thing is that it has been multiplying for 10 years

March 3, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Infrared image of the debris disk around HD 181327 where crystalline water ice was detected by the James Webb Space Telescope.

They have found crystalline water ice outside the Solar System, in a young system just 23 million years old

March 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Image of the Ring Nebula highlighting the newly discovered bar of super hot iron gas across its center.

After observing it for years, astronomers discover a strange structure in an iconic object, and now everyone is wondering how it is possible that it had not been seen before

March 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
James Webb Space Telescope image of distant galaxy MoM z14 at redshift 14.44

James Webb discovers (once again) the most distant galaxy in the universe and breaks its own record

March 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The Treasure of Villena, a 3,000 year old Bronze Age hoard from Spain containing meteorite iron artifacts

In 1963, a 3,000-year-old “treasure” appeared in Spain: we now know that it contains material that is not from our world

March 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Amazonian anaconda species whose fossils show maximum size reached 12.4 million years ago during the Miocene

The enigma that baffles scientists: Amazonian anacondas reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago, and while other prehistoric giants became extinct, they decided not to change one bit.

March 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
67,800 year old red hand stencil cave painting discovered in Liang Metanduno cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia

It wasn’t in Altamira or France: the oldest cave painting on the planet (67,800 years old) appears in a remote cave in Asia and forever changes the map of human creativity

March 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Microscopic image of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a minimal genome archaeon discovered by Japanese scientists

It’s not a virus, it’s not a bacterium… it’s something stranger: Japanese scientists discover a life form that doesn’t fit into any known biological category

March 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
NASA radar image revealing Camp Century, a Cold War nuclear base buried beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

It was buried under 30 meters of polar ice and had been missing since 1967: NASA unexpectedly finds an old secret nuclear test site in the middle of the Arctic

March 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Illustration of the solar system passing through the Radcliffe Wave, a giant filament of gas and young stars in the Milky Way.

It wasn’t just a simple stroll through the galaxy: 14 million years ago, the solar system passed through a colossal wave of gas and stars that may have triggered the great Miocene glaciation

February 28, 2026 at 1:33 PM
NASA Parker Solar Probe flying through the Sun’s corona during its record breaking close approach

An unprecedented view of the Sun is about to arrive: the Parker probe passed through the solar atmosphere at approximately 429,000 miles per hour (mph) and recorded data that could solve one of science’s oldest mysteries

February 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
India SpaDeX satellites performing first in orbit docking maneuver developed by ISRO in 2025

India joins the most exclusive club in space: it has achieved its first docking between satellites in orbit and is already dreaming of having its own space station by 2035

February 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 approaching the Moon in a potential 2032 impact scenario

NASA and China warn that the Moon could be hit by a 60-meter rock and that the impact could trigger a meteor storm that would knock out the Internet, satellites, and GPS for years

February 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Monte Conero limestone slab showing fossilized Cretaceous sea turtle trackways

The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake

February 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Archaeological remains of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio basilica uncovered beneath Piazza Andrea Costa

Excavating beneath an Italian square, they finally uncover Vitruvius’ lost building: the basilica described in 19 BC comes to life in the 21st century

February 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
CHIEF1900 hypergravity centrifuge installed underground at Zhejiang University, designed to simulate extreme gravitational forces.

China is building a giant hypergravity centrifuge capable of accelerating processes that take centuries to complete in nature

February 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Ancient Aboriginal rock art showing a large seafaring vessel with human figures in northern Australia

Confirmed: a study of more than 2,400 genomes reveals that the first humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago… and that they may have coexisted with prehistoric “hobbits”

February 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Ripe cloudberries growing in an Arctic bog, the octoploid berry studied for its complex hybrid genome.

It wasn’t just a rare fruit: the humble molt that Nansen took to the North Pole in 1893 could be one of the most complex natural hybrids ever studied, with DNA from at least three extinct species and an evolutionary history written in eight chromosomes that still baffles geneticists

February 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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