Science

Science • Jun 01

The Dirt That Refused To Die

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

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Science • Jun 01

How to Watch the Northern Lights Tonight

According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, lingering streams of enhanced solar wind are still interacting with Earth's magnetic field,...

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Science • Jun 01

Zombie Chunks of Sea Cucumber Refuse to Die, Raising Questions About What It Means to Live Forever

An amputated sample of the sea creature not only survived for three years on its own, it also managed to regenerate and grow.

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Science • Jun 01

A piece of space may have landed in Cape Cod Bay — what we know

Scientists say meteorites may have splashed down into Cape Cod Bay on May 30—and could be within reach of those with a boat, rope and magnet.

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Science • Jun 01

What’s Up: June 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Venus and Jupiter meet after sunset, the Moon passes in front of Venus, summer begins, and deep-sky treasures rise into view.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space

Astronomers have been tracking unusual bursts of radio emissions that repeat regularly. They say they've just found a "Rosetta stone."

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Science • Jun 01

First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity

The first-ever whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark has revealed genetic clues to how the animals avoid cancer and live for hundreds of years.

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Science • Jun 01

Tiny-armed alvarezsauroid dinosaurs might have been insect eaters, fossil scans suggest

Dinosaurs are estimated to have roamed Earth for over 165 million years, gradually evolving over time to survive in changing environments.

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Science • Jun 01

The Origin of the Euphrates Discovered: The Great River of Mesopotamia Was Born 6 Million Years Ago and Flowed Into an Almost Dry Mediterranean

An international team of geologists has managed to reconstruct for the first time the complete history of the Euphrates River, from its origins about 6...

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Science • Jun 01

First direct view tracks planet-forming disk spinning around AB Aurigae

The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions...

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Science • Jun 01

Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds

Most people wouldn't think that it would take rigorous mathematical proof to show how many folds it takes to make a donut shape out of paper.

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Science • Jun 01

Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekend.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarities Between Freud’s Ideas and Modern Neuroscience

Researchers suggest that old psychoanalytic ideas and modern brain science may be describing the same mental processes from different angles.

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Science • Jun 01

Meteor causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal

Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double...

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Science • Jun 01

Cats can't taste sweetness — evolution turned off the relevant gene in their distant ancestors when they became obligate carnivores, and without working sweet receptors, a cat is as indifferent to sugar as a person is to ultraviolet light

Cats are notoriously indifferent to sweet things. Pour syrup near a dog and the dog will investigate. Pour syrup near a cat and the cat will ignore it.

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Science • Jun 01

New 7-Dimensional Theory May Finally Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox

A new theoretical study suggests that black holes may never completely disappear, potentially offering a way to resolve the long-standing black hole...

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Science • Jun 01

Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are coherent bursts of polarized radio emission that repeat periodically on timescales of minutes to hours.

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Science • Jun 01

Astronomers might have decoded a mysterious signal from space

Something in the universe is sending powerful, regular bursts towards Earth – and now researchers think they have decoded what it is.

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Science • Jun 01

Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean

Although the Euphrates River—stretching ~3000 km across Western Asia—has shaped the region's geology for millions of years, the timing of its origin and the...

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Science • Jun 01

Webb sniffs methane from interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during a recent revisit to Comet 3I/ATLAS...

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