Science

Science • Jul 02

Why NASA Is Launching a Mission to Save a Quarter-Billion Dollar Space Telescope

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies. Here's what to know about NASA's mission.

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Science • Jul 02

Dynamic black holes may obey Hawking-style thermodynamics with an alternative entropy measure

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a small area, producing gravity...

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Science • Jul 02

University of Minnesota scientists create first synthetic cell that can complete a life cycle

Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they've made the first synthetic cell that can complete a life cycle, a major breakthrough that could lead to...

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Science • Jul 02

Scientists Find the Grossest, Most Efficient Way to Clean a Skeleton

When cleaning up animal skeletons for museum display, curators have several options. They could use chemicals or enzymes to dissolve the leftover flesh or...

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Science • Jul 02

Pre-4th fireworks? Northern lights possible tonight/Friday night

In the midst of a heat wave, our Sun has been quite active in another arena. A pair of very large sunspot clusters have been traversing the Earthside...

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Science • Jul 02

A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have descr

Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre. Most of the time, on the available observational...

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Science • Jul 02

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

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Science • Jul 02

Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics...

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Science • Jul 02

Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. 'This one is exciting'

Astronomers discovered a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its star that could potentially support liquid water and...

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Science • Jul 02

Northern lights could dazzle to start July 4 weekend

Sure, you may be hoping to see fireworks or a drone show over the July 4 weekend, but nature may be gearing up to give you its own colorful nighttime...

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Science • Jul 02

Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born, which means the roughly 8 billion of us alive today are about 7% of everyone who has ever lived

Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau's estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth.

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Science • Jul 02

James Webb telescope may have discovered a never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan

A mysterious wavelength of light is missing from the dwarf planet Pluto and Saturn's supersized moon Titan, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...

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Science • Jul 02

Multiple CMEs forecast to impact Earth through July 6 after repeated eruptions from Region 4479

Multiple coronal mass ejections linked to repeated eruptions from Active Region 4479 are forecast to reach Earth in stages from July 3 through July 6, 2026.

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Science • Jul 02

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren't expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain...

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Science • Jul 02

This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel's paintings teem with menageries of birds, mammals, reptiles,...

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Science • Jul 02

A galaxy confirmed this January formed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, and the part astronomers cannot explain is that it is far too large, far too soon, as if the early universe was building things it was not supposed to be able to build yet.

Light from a galaxy called JADES-GS-z14-0 left on its way to us when the universe was only about 290 million years old, and the James Webb Space Telescope...

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Science • Jul 02

A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and performing biological functions...

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Science • Jul 02

The deadliest animal you could encounter in a national park probably isn’t a bone-crushing, 300kg apex predator – it’s something much more surprising

You might think that being face-to-face with a grizzly or black bear would be the most dangerous wildlife encounter in a national park, but a study shows...

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Science • Jul 02

Tides off Patagonia are strongest they've been since the Ice Age

A new study reconstructing 21,000 years of tidal change across the Patagonian Shelf finds that tides are now among the strongest since the last Ice Age,...

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Science • Jul 02

Strong Northern Lights Forecast: These 9 States Could See The Aurora Thursday

The northern lights have a higher than usual chance to be visible from states along the U.S.-Canadian border on Thursday night and early Friday morning,...

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