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Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.
Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial activities.
First Nations ranger groups working in protected areas such as national or marine parks have identified illegal commercial fishing as a major concern for the Northern Territory's green turtle populations, a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU) and James Cook University (JCU) has found.
As thousands of children start high school, experts have called for children to be given more opportunities for independence before they reach adolescence.
Relationship advice: My boyfriend’s birthday gift would damage my body. He’s insisting I use it anyway. Slate
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary this summer, national parks are experiencing record-breaking visitation, with people flocking to enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the great outdoors.
The Pentagon has again postponed PFAS cleanups at hundreds of military sites, in some cases up to 19 years, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.
2026 September 10 - LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula NASA (.gov)
The first-of-its-kind drug offers a reprieve for people who live with the debilitating sleep disorder.
Researchers have developed an AI-based system that automatically and objectively detects the moment when fish experience loss of equilibrium (LOE) due to temperature stress. The system combines DeepLabCut, a deep-learning AI that captures animal posture from video, with ResNet34, a deep-learning AI-based image classification technology. Their system is expected to help predict the effects of climate change on fish.
A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release their psychoactive properties.
New research shows that warming-induced emissions—greenhouse gas emissions from natural sources driven by rising temperatures—could amplify global warming by approximately 20%–30% and add an estimated 0.2°C–0.4°C of warming this century on top of anthropogenic warming under different scenarios. These major additional drivers of warming are largely unaccounted for in current climate projections and policies.
Off Florida's coast, a team of scientists and trained volunteers in scuba gear descends to the ocean floor, planting young coral onto a reef and examining how others are faring in increasingly warm waters.
An experimental compound called AP503 significantly strengthened bones in mice by activating GPR133, a receptor that boosts bone formation while slowing bone loss. Because the same treatment has also been linked to stronger muscles, researchers see intriguing potential for combating age-related decline and osteoporosis.
Protein-based MRI agent detects lung cancer and hidden metastases earlier than current scans Medical Xpress New MRI agent detects lung cancer, hidden metastases earlier than current scans EurekAlert!
Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills and, once, an anteater.
A first-of-its-kind drug for the sleep disorder offers a new treatment for people who live with the debilitating fog of sleepiness.
Paleontologists Discover First-Ever Adult Tyrannosaurus rex Trackway sci.news How an Unlikely Fossil Hunter Found a Tyrannosaurus Trail National Geographic A 66.5-million-year-old trackway captures adult T. rex at walking pace Phys.org Paleontologists discover first adult ‘T. rex’ footpath Yahoo Denver scientists just discovered the first adult T. rex trackway Axios
Semaglutide, the drug found in Ozempic and Wegovy, was linked to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks in a large real-world study. It was also associated with about 20% fewer COPD flare-ups. Researchers say GLP-1 drugs may offer respiratory benefits in addition to their effects on diabetes and obesity, but clinical trials are needed to confirm the findings.
Once coyotes get a taste for city living, the call of the wild fades to a whisper. Food is abundant and predators are few. Research indicates that coyotes enjoy the benefits of urban areas enough to put up with all the people, and Seattle is no exception.
The two researchers have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their findings laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the sleep disorder’s root cause.
'Oddly shaped rock' found in San Mateo County turns out to be huge ice age tooth SFGATE Scientist makes jaw-dropping fossil discovery in Bay Area KRON4 ‘Immaculate condition:’ Rare mastodon fossil found in San Mateo County creek The Mercury News She was looking for frogs in the San Mateo hills. Then she stumbled upon an Ice Age mystery San Francisco Chronicle Mastodon tooth found in San Mateo County creek bed San Mateo Daily Journal
Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.
Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b probably represented extraterrestrial life, while 15.1% said the same about intriguing mineral patterns in a Martian rock.
‘Immaculate condition:’ Rare mastodon fossil found in San Mateo County creek The Mercury News Scientist makes jaw-dropping fossil discovery in Bay Area KRON4 'Oddly shaped rock' found in San Mateo County turns out to be huge ice age tooth SFGATE She was looking for frogs in the San Mateo hills. Then she stumbled upon an Ice Age mystery San Francisco Chronicle Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek KTLA
An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development, echoing concerns raised inside and outside of the industry about the technology's potential to elude human control.
The prediction that this season's El Niño phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community, which has warned of its impact on the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, home to the highest concentration of species not found elsewhere on Earth.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains exceptionally high levels of methanol, suggesting it formed under conditions very different from those that shaped most comets in our solar system. ALMA also revealed that tiny icy grains around the comet are releasing methanol like miniature comets, giving astronomers an unusually detailed look at an object from another star system.
This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime space.com Gravitational lensing may explain unusual black hole merger — Space.com UA.NEWS The biggest black hole merger ever observed could be less massive than it appears Phys.org GW231123: Record Black Holes May Be a Lensing Illusion srpske.rs A Trick Of Gravity? The Biggest Black Hole Merger Ever Detected May Have Deceived Us All IFLScience
Kīlauea Volcano Eruption Update for Wednesday, September 9 Big Island Video News September 8, 2026—Kīlauea summit eruption reference map usgs.gov Can You Actually Time A Hawaii Vacation To See Kilauea Erupt? Beat of Hawaii Storm Clouds Left Scientists Reading Tremor Instead of Video as Kilauea Built Toward Episode 55 Nature World News Kilauea volcano LIVE: Eruption in Hawaii The Lufkin Daily News
Britain’s towering Devil’s Arrows were built from 25-tonne stones hauled at least 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks around 4,000 years ago. The discovery reveals an astonishing feat of prehistoric engineering and suggests the stones’ distant source may have been chosen for cultural or spiritual reasons.
While aerial 1080 drops sharply reduce numbers of rats and stoats, the predators—especially ship rats—can rebound to higher numbers within a few years. Studying 24 years of small-mammal tracking records across New Zealand's public conservation land, researchers found that the timing of these rebounds varies between regions.
Anodic Pd membrane H2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation Nature
Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers have developed a global framework to close this gap by combining scientific studies with museum collections, local expertise, citizen science, social media records, and new technologies.
Japan has been experiencing increasingly severe damage from torrential rainfall triggered by typhoons and stationary linear rain bands. In response, an ambitious and unconventional idea is taking shape: artificially inducing heavy rainfall over the ocean to reduce extreme downpours on land.
This Photon Survived an 'Impossible' Journey to Earth. To Explain it, Physicists Had to Break Einstein GizmodoSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Artificial intelligence and big-data capacity might help logistics companies withstand supply-chain disruptions by making them more agile and resilient, according to research in the International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling. The results are based on an analysis of responses from almost 300 logistics professionals in Indonesia.
Gondwana really was a supercontinent. And it helped kick-start life on Earth The ConversationSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Fieldwork is a vital part of geoscience research, allowing scientists and students to directly observe, interact with and collect data about Earth processes that cannot be replicated in the lab.
Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture Nature Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies Nature Fossil remains unearthed in China offer new clues about how Denisovans lived CNN Researchers Discover Rare Denisovan Bones in a Cave in China nationalgeographic.com First Denisovan forearm bone discovered in southwest China Phys.org
Just a few atomic layers at the surface can strongly influence how effectively a material binds pollutants from water or how efficiently a photocatalyst responds to light. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to investigate the chemical states and interactions at the surfaces and interfaces of bio-based carbon materials and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Their insights can support the targeted development of func
Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago SpaceSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Do you think it's fair that some people are better off financially than others? Does it perhaps matter whether those earnings stem from a lottery win or hard work? These are the kinds of questions economist Ingvild Almås of the University of Zurich is exploring.
Fruit Fly Brain Simulations Play Beat Saber and Doom Afte... x.com A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain Google Research Completing the Connectome: How Pursuing a Map of the Fly Brain Rewired Neuroscience HHMI Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom — AI-powered 3D model of over 166,000 neurons can also play Super Mario 64 Tom's Hardware How the brain of a fly may help explain human
WA's trapdoor spiders are endangered. Jackson Rendall is here to help—because he thinks they're "just really cool."
Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China Nature Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies Nature Fossil remains unearthed in China offer new clues about how Denisovans lived CNN Researchers Discover Rare Denisovan Bones in a Cave in China National Geographic Scientists unlock new clues to what Denisovans, a mysterious ancient human ancestor, looked like Scientific American
Decisions such as whether to cut prices, launch a product, open a new facility or make an acquisition are among those companies that consider in pursuit of a competitive edge. New research from Texas A&M University suggests a CEO's political affiliation may be associated with whether the company's overall strategy follows industry peers or charts a different course.
The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earth 404 MediaSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
How do we form a picture of conflicts? A new study published in the journal Nature explores how different types of data can be combined to give a fuller understanding of armed conflicts. Lead author Valerie Sticher uses the examples of Ukraine and Myanmar to explain the advantages and limitations of automatically analyzed satellite data.
NASA's newly launched Roman Space Telescope will 'directly' image exoplanets. But what does that mean? space.com An insider's look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope The Planetary Society How NASA's New Telescope Will Photograph Other Worlds Yahoo Picture of the Day: Capturing the Falcon 9 Launch at Dawn General Aviation News Roman Telescope Booster Returns to Port, X Report 9 Sep 2026 KeepTrack
Trust in scientists in the UK is strong overall, with 63% indicating they have high trust in scientists in general—but a major new study finds this trust is closely shaped by people's values, identity and politics, showing some of the same patterns of division over science that have emerged in the U.S.
Secretive, high-security LA landmark will open to the public for just two days – and it’s free New York Post
Researchers from RMIT University and EPA Victoria detected eight PFAS compounds in rainwater samples collected in Melbourne between 2024 and 2025.
Highly efficient base editing at PCSK9 and normal human embryo development Nature A study in Nature sheds new light on DNA repair in early human embryos, with implications for future gene correction EurekAlert! New base editing techniques accurately modify genes in human embryos news-medical.net One more step towards genetically modified humans Diari ARA
Watch: Scientists have revealed the most detailed video of a black hole jet ever taken after 27 years of observations Live Science
An electrical fingerprint found on tiny particles in the blood may help detect signs of pancreatic cancer that are often overlooked, according to new research from Rice University. The researchers developed a device that separates these particles based on their electrical charge, making cancer-associated signals more visible.
Rising sea levels and storm surges could cost $855 billion in economic losses across Australia by the end of the century, according to new research, the first of its kind in Australia.
Team finds new layer of the human genome Futurity
Venus May Have Had a Moon for Nearly 2 Billion Years—Before It Ate It Gizmodo Did Venus eat its own moon? Space Did Venus once have a moon? Scientists think the planet may have destroyed it starlust.org Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer Phys.org Why Venus has no moon: Scientists reveal the strange reason techexplorist.com
Why do travelers choose one hotel over another, and what makes them return?
For decades, physicists have searched for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. Although its gravitational influence shapes galaxies and the large-scale structure of the cosmos, dark matter has never been directly detected. Now, an international team has identified a new class of quantum materials that could dramatically improve the search for some of the lightest and most elusive forms of dark matter.
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft The Register How the lowly egg could help protect future spacecraft Popular Science The secret to protecting next-gen spacecraft might be eggshells Ars Technica 3D image of the water-filled aluminum eggshell array metastructure EurekAlert! Water-filled aluminum egg structure to protect space probes from impacts heise online
The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law has released a human rights assessment of the use of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of law, journalism and education.
Fossil remains unearthed in China offer new clues about how Denisovans lived CNN Denisovan tools from cave in China shows how mysterious humans lived newscientist.com Scientists unlock new clues to what a mysterious ancient human ancestor looked like Scientific American First Arm Bone Of A Denisovan Discovered In Chinese Cave, Adding A Fascinating Piece To The Prehistoric Puzzle IFLScience Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets Science News
We've been searching for life on Mars for a long time, but so far we've come up empty. The fundamental problem is a Catch-22 involving two of the key ingredients for life. Life as we know it needs liquid water and reasonable temperatures, both of which are available on Mars, but hardly ever at the same time. But a new paper from lead author Anna Bognar and her team at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and the Konkoly Observatory describes a way for life to access both requirements at the same time—b
Foaming photopolymers as a high-resolution biomimetic printing platform NatureSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.
In 1984, NASA left a satellite carrying 57 experiments in orbit for a planned 10 months — repeated delays stretched the trip to 69 months before Columbia brought the entire laboratory home inside its cargo bay, its exposed surfaces weathered by years in spac Space Daily
Scholasticide—deliberate attacks on a society's education system in armed conflict—is a war crime that must be publicly condemned and its perpetrators held to account, insists an editorial published by The BMJ.
12-Foot Tiger Shark Mauls Board and Surfer Fights It Off at China Walls Yahoo
AI engineers often recognize ethical risks associated with the systems they build, but many lack the authority, incentives and organizational support needed to act on them, according to new research from the University of Manchester.
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute have shown that naturally occurring channels within a common clay mineral can respond to pressure, voltage and pH, offering possibilities for controlling the movement of ions through extremely small, confined spaces. The study, published in Advanced Materials, focuses on vermiculite, a naturally abundant layered clay whose structure contains channels only a few angstroms high, providing naturally confined pathways through which ions can move.
Archaeologists Just Found the Most Complete Denisovan Record Yet—and It Goes Back 190,000 Years Gizmodo Researchers Discover Rare Denisovan Bones in a Cave in China National Geographic Scientists unlock new clues to what Denisovans, a mysterious ancient human ancestor, looked like Scientific American First Arm Bone Of A Denisovan Discovered In Chinese Cave, Adding A Fascinating Piece To The Prehistoric Puzzle IFLScience Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets Science News
Porous liquids combine permanent nanoscale cavities with fluidity, making them promising for applications like carbon dioxide capture, gas separation and other chemical processes. Their viscosity must be tailored to the intended application: Lower-viscosity liquids are easier to pump and circulate while facilitating faster heat and mass transfer, whereas higher-viscosity liquids provide greater structural stability in membrane formation.
A NASA Photo Processing Technique to Study Mars Has Discovered Ancient Art on Earth PetaPixel NASA technique for manipulating satellite photos now reveals ancient images Phys.org
From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of Earth's oldest stories. Morocco's M'Goun UNESCO Global Geopark records more than 200 million years of geological history, while Tanzania's Ngorongoro-Lengai landscape brings together a vast caldera, an active volcano and the fossil record of Olduvai Gorge.
10 billion km in 3 minutes! Epic video captures a spacecraft's 8-year odyssey to planet Mercury BBC Sky at Night Magazine Mercury ready for its close-up as mission prepares to orbit planet NewsNation BepiColombo Successfully Begins Its Final Descent To Mercury Universe Today A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage AP News Spacecraft bound for Mercury begins 'tricky' arrival Phys.org
A new study published in Science Advances reveals how Bronze Age communities in Central Europe adapted to changing environmental and social conditions by adopting broomcorn millet, a fast-growing, climate-resilient crop.
How long did it take to make the moon? Maybe just 5 hours, new simulations suggest Live Science Earth's moon could have formed in just 5 hours after giant impact Space Scientists Are Still Trying To Understand How the Moon Formed Universe Today Collision between Earth and Theia (artist's impression) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The birth of the Moon, meeting dark matter, 9 months with a pig kidney realnoevremya.com
Morocco spent most of the last decade drying out. Between 2019 and 2024, the country recorded six consecutive years of below-average rainfall, the longest on record. The 2023–24 hydrological year was the driest in more than six decades, with a national total of just 106.4 mm.
Four moon-planetary alignments in a week over Seattle The Seattle Times
From targeted cancer treatments to self-healing materials and microscopic robots, many emerging technologies depend on molecules that can be controlled with light. Researchers at Tohoku University have now developed a way to make these light-responsive molecules much more sensitive to visible light by using a molecular antenna. The breakthrough gives scientists better control over molecular photoswitches remotely and potentially expands their use in medicine and advanced materials. The findings
GNR Wednesday 9/9/26 – Decide. Daily Kos Astronomers Create Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ to Show Variety of Shapes a Galaxy Can Be Good News Network NASA reveals rare look at 16 dazzling galactic wonders geekspin
An international team led by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has developed an innovative method to identify stars that have consumed the planets around them. The technique detects variations in the abundance of beryllium, a relatively rare chemical element, and could open a new window into studying the evolution of planetary systems.
Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Southern Maryland, Reports Stretch Across Mid-Atlantic The BayNet Possible meteor spotted over parts of Maryland FOX 5 DC Watch: Comet lights up sky over Germantown WUSA9 A fireball blazed over N.J. at 2 a.m. — and someone caught it all on camera NJ.com Bright fireball meteor illuminates early morning sky over Maryland [VIDEO] NottinghamMD.com
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in astrophysics.
Scientists Recreated Chirps of Jurassic Insects, Simulating a 165 Million-yo Soundscape (Listen) Good News Network What Did Jurassic Forests Sound Like? Like This. The New York Times A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song Science News 165-Million-Year-Old Insect Fossils Help Reconstruct What a Jurassic Forest May Have Sounded Like Discover Magazine Jurassic forest sounds recreated by scientists The Telegraph
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI obsession is likely a bubble ready to burst, we won't simply stop using computers. Since their first invention, computers have continued to grow more powerful, and our civilization has grown ever more dependent on them. Computation defines our civilization. Perhaps computational power is what defines any a
A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang appears to have defied Einstein. Scientists may finally know how SpaceSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Chemists in a new study led by the University of Iowa report they have isolated and described in detail an atypical state of the rare-earth metal terbium, an advance that could expand its use in quantum technologies, including computing and advanced sensors. The study, "Structural and spectroscopic characterization of a Tb(IV) polyoxometalate," is published in the journal Nature Communications.
A fireball blazed over N.J. at 2 a.m. — and someone caught it all on camera NJ.com Possible meteor spotted over parts of Maryland FOX 5 DC Watch: Comet lights up sky over Germantown WUSA9 Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Southern Maryland, Reports Stretch Across Mid-Atlantic The BayNet Bright fireball meteor illuminates early morning sky over Maryland [VIDEO] nottinghammd.com
Cadmium is a naturally occurring, toxic heavy metal found in many soils across Latin America and the Caribbean, where cacao trees are widely cultivated. It makes its way into cocoa seeds, called beans, that are roasted and made into chocolate, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)—but some cacao varieties take up less of the toxic element than others. An international team of researchers, including Penn State scientists, found genetic differences in how t
Scientists Say They Can Now Pinpoint Where Big Quakes Might Hit Gizmodo Scientists discover a new way to identify where major earthquakes could strike FOX Weather Scientists say they can now predict where an earthquake will strike next KTLA New method predicts where massive earthquakes will strike University of California, Riverside New Model Predicted Kamchatka's Magnitude 8.8 Quake srpske.rs
Researchers have discovered a system that helps seeds survive when there is too much salt in the soil. The system helps young germinating embryos keep the right balance of sodium and potassium as they begin to grow. Understanding how it works could eventually help scientists develop crops that grow better in salty soils.
Northern Lights Alert: Aurora Could Still Reach 20 States Wednesday Forbes How to Watch Back-to-Back Northern Lights from 20 States Tonight People.com Multiple CMEs forecast to impact Earth on September 8 and 9, G1 geomagnetic storm watch issued The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform Minnesota has a chance to see northern lights tonight St. Cloud Times These states have a chance to see northern lights tonight USA Today
The human body fights staph infections by starving it of essential nutrients. Staph, it turns out, is remarkably good at changing what's on the menu. Staphylococcus aureus—the infamous agent behind MRSA and most staph infections—needs sulfur to build proteins and other materials essential for survival. In a new Michigan State University study, published in the Journal of Bacteriology, researchers found the bacterium can adjust its diet depending on what sources remain available.
Four amateur astronomers using a telescope in Chile's Atacama desert found a comet on 13 January 2026, 81 days before it would graze past the Sun. Nobody alive had seen its previous pass, because the orbit it travels on brings it back only about every 1,90 Space Daily
University of Missouri researchers are paving the way as artificial intelligence transforms biomedical research. A team from the College of Engineering and collaborators recently published one of the most comprehensive reviews to date of an emerging AI approach for biology known as flow matching. The work, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, provides scientists around the world with a roadmap for applying the technology to accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine and other biomedical
This Is the Biggest 2D Map of the Universe. Here’s How to Use It CNET Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It wired.com Scientists spent a decade building the sharpest map of space ever made, and it's free to browse MakeUseOf The Largest 2D Map Of The Universe Lets You Explore 4 Billion Astronomical Objects IFLScience 4 Billion Cosmic Objects in a Browser Tab: The Legacy Survey Sky Viewer Opens to the Public Yahoo Tech
Drawing on 14 years of data, we examined whether access to broadband internet could improve Americans' use of time and found that a 10% increase in broadband adoption across a community corresponds to a 1.19% reduction in waiting time.
The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight.
14 of Science’s Biggest Mysteries We’re Still Trying to Figure Out Yahoo
A forest can look intact from the roadside and still have lost much of its capacity to bounce back. That gap between appearance and function is at the center of a new policy brief published by eLTER, the European research infrastructure for long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological research.
These states have a chance to see northern lights tonight USA Today Northern lights may be visible for parts of the US. Here are your best chances to see them. WTHR Minnesota has a chance to see northern lights tonight St. Cloud Times The northern lights could be visible this week. Here’s where Upper Michigan's Source We may be able to see the Northern Lights tonight! Northern News Now
Pelicans have resided in St James's Park, London, for 360 years. But the current flock has been a summer sensation because of the first chicks to hatch in the park's history.
Fall 2026: Meteor shower season is about to begin! The Weather NetworkSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
Ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans for 150 million years during the Mesozoic Era. Their fish-shaped bodies were built for high speeds. In that context, it is normally an advantage to be as light as possible.
NASA Found Strange Holes on Mars. Scientists Aren't Sure What Made Them. ScienceAlert Curiosity Blog, Sols 4995-5001: 5,000 (Martian) Days on Mars NASA Science (.gov) This incredible new Mars image marks 5,000 Martian days for NASA’s Curiosity rover Imaging Resource Mars Curiosity Reaches 1-Kilometer Elevation Gain Astrobiology Web Curiosity rover completes 5,000 days on Mars. It was sent to live for just 700 days India Today
As a liquid that is easily stored and transported, ammonia (NH3) is an attractive carrier for hydrogen, which is used in fuel cells, semiconductor manufacturing, chemical processing and other applications. However, breaking ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen typically requires high temperatures, and the resulting gas mixture must undergo additional purification before the hydrogen can be used in many applications.
China on track to launch Mars sample-return mission in 2028: 'If accurate, this represents a Sputnik moment' Space China narrows Tianwen-3 Mars sample return landing site selection, seeking traces of life SpaceNews China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples NewsNation Chief scientist of Tianwen-3 mission says search for signs of life on Mars is top goal The Macau Post Daily China’s 2028 Mars mission could be a new ‘Sputnik moment’, says former NASA expert The News International
Caring for others without caring for oneself is associated with lower levels of well-being and may not be sustainable, a new study found.
One hydrophone sitting 891 meters down in Monterey Canyon, wired to shore by 52 kilometers of cable, recorded 2,111 days out of 2,192 between July 2015 and June 2021, and humpback song climbed from 34 percent of days to 76 while blue whale song fel Space Daily
The contiguous United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts of climate change.
Key figures from Europe's space industry and other international players have converged on Paris to discuss how to advance the continent's ambitions in a global market dominated by the United States.
In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest Space Daily
New observations of the composition of distant galaxies offer insights into the earliest phases of the universe and confirm decades of scientific understanding of the elements and particles produced by the Big Bang, according to a new study.
Piling sight, sound, touch, smell and taste into digitally enhanced tourist attractions does not automatically make visitors more engaged, according to research from the University of Surrey.
(Fe0.63Ni0.3Pd0.07)3P, or FNPP, is a magnetic material that exhibits complex magnetic structures even at room temperature. This makes the material of interest for spintronics, a field that could enable data processing with significantly lower energy consumption. One potential application is novel magnetic memory devices.
Estuaries across the United States are facing the same trends of warming waters, algal growth and declining oxygen concentrations that threaten water quality and fish populations, regardless of geographic location, according to new research led by a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) faculty member.
People in Vancouver experienced an increase in police drug seizures during the first year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization pilot project, according to a Simon Fraser University study.
Until just over a decade ago, ring systems were thought to be exclusive to the giant planets of the solar system, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. However, in 2013, a small body barely 250 kilometers (155 miles) in diameter, located at nearly 17 times the Earth–sun distance, joined this small group. The object is Chariklo, a small body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, around which astronomers discovered two dense rings.
Hydrogen-powered cars, power stations and portable chargers all rely on fuel cells. At the heart of each fuel cell is a catalyst that speeds up the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water. These catalysts are typically made of platinum—which costs nearly as much as gold. Researchers from Southern Federal University, together with colleagues from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group), the Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Toward the end of their lives, low-mass stars undergo an abrupt dip in brightness, also known as the luminosity bump. While the endpoint of this bump is well understood, its onset has remained elusive. Now, in a paper published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Saskia Hekker, leader of the Theory and Observations of Stars group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), finds that entropy is the key driver of the bump.
Researchers have captured the moment two DNA molecules zip together, overcoming their identical negative charges to pair up and revealing a mechanism that has puzzled scientists for more than 20 years. Using high-powered atomic force microscopy, scientists at the University of Sheffield and the University of York directly imaged two DNA double helices locking together, marking the first time this fundamental biological process has been visualized.
The Danube gudgeon had been considered extinct in the Inn River for more than 100 years. Only a few years ago, the highly endangered species was rediscovered there. Now, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have documented the fish in another section of the Inn. The finding emerged from a joint research project with hydropower operator VERBUND examining the effects of nature-like fishways on fish populations and river ecology.
On back-to-school night in 2005, I eagerly entered my youngest child's first-grade classroom. The walls were festooned with brightly colored responses to the prompt: "Draw something you remember."
Cornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move inside them, a process essential for growth, communication and movement that is often disrupted in cancer.
Viewing "thinspiration" content on TikTok increases self-objectification and worsens mood, while viewing body-positive content also increases self-objectification but is linked to a more positive mood, according to a new study published in PLOS One by Samantha Jones of Western University, Canada, and colleagues.
More than 3,000 scientific article titles across disciplines have made use of Beatles song titles and lyrics, according to a study published in PLOS One by Gabriel Budel of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and colleagues. This analysis is an unprecedentedly large-scale, cross-disciplinary account of how the Beatles have left their mark on scientific writing.
Analysis of fossilized remains from dinosaurs known as troodontids reveals how one species' hip and leg bones may have developed over its lifespan, from embryo to adult—with potential implications for resolving longstanding taxonomic challenges. David Varricchio of Montana State University, U.S., and Heath Caldwell of North Carolina State University, U.S., present their findings in the journal PLOS One on Sept. 9, 2026.
Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors and adjust their actions when circumstances change—a cognitive ability that may help explain the animals' sophisticated problem-solving skills and social behavior.
A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed.
For thousands of years, human urine has had real value. After our bodies absorb nutrients from our food, they excrete the rest—mainly via urine. An adult produces about 500 liters (132 gallons) a year. This liquid gold is very rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, three nutrients vital for plant growth.
Americans' confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci as a source of trustworthy public health information declined over the four months from April to August 2026 in a survey conducted after he appeared before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee but declined to answer its questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
The Anthropocene became part of the zeitgeist after Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen launched the idea in 2000. This is the notion that a crescendo of human impacts has recently propelled Earth out of the relatively stable climatic conditions of the Holocene epoch, during which human civilization developed and flourished, to produce a new kind of planet.
Finding a fossilized dinosaur egg is exceptionally rare, but finding a stash of more than 250 shell fragments in the chilly southern reaches of the planet is even more surprising. The discoveries come from southernmost Patagonia in Argentina, where giant, long-necked titanosaurs roamed toward the end of the dinosaur era. Previous egg discoveries suggested that these massive beasts usually nested much farther north.
Canada's last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.
The term "benefit corporation" is becoming increasingly familiar as a label for companies with a hybrid commitment to the social good and profit-making. Interestingly, the term itself has taken on a hybrid meaning.
In Australia, many Indigenous communities have connections and stories linked to the she-oak.
We have all seen something suddenly break: a phone screen cracks, a plastic object snaps or a piece of glass shatters. To our eyes, the failure seems to happen all at once. But what if the most important part of the break happens long before the final snap?
A new comparative review, published in The Anatomical Record, examines factors that may lead to birth complications among humans and other mammals. The study suggests that fetal sex may play an important role in risky births in humans and several other species.
Fire ants have earned their reputation as one of Australia's most damaging invasive pests. From ruined picnics to serious impacts on agriculture, biodiversity and public health, they are notoriously difficult to control.
Topological quantum materials combine unusual electronic states with properties such as magnetism or superconductivity, offering possibilities for future electronics and quantum technologies. Researchers at Tohoku University have now shown that changing the number of layers in a crystal can provide a systematic way to design topological magnets. The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
UC Riverside environmental engineers have identified key chemical reactions that occur when ultraviolet light is used to destroy "forever chemical" pollutants in water, providing a roadmap for developing more effective cleanup technologies.
Subsidies for emerging technology that allows seafood to be produced on land would boost the UK's food security and deliver significant climate benefits, new research shows.
Imagine walking through a World War I excavation site—not wading through mud-filled trenches, but navigating a digital landscape rich with history, artifacts and human stories.
A new study reveals that horse personality is not only a matter of genetics, age or breed but also systematically linked to how horses are housed, ridden and cared for, and to the quality of the relationship they share with their owners. The findings underscore the importance of everyday management decisions for equine personality and welfare.
Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Liverpool John Moores University in England have discovered the first adult T. rex trackway, providing insights into how this emblematic predator moved. The findings are published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Material properties such as sound insulation, resistance to extreme heat and thermal expansion originate from how the zillions of microscopic building blocks (nuclei and electrons) interact at equilibrium and respond to perturbations. Atoms are typically about one ten-billionth of a meter across, so there can be a lot of parts to keep track of—a task that is complicated at the quantum-mechanical level, where particles are neither here nor there until observed.
Beyond Blue has launched "The Future We Choose: Mental health support in Australia through the next decade of change," a new strategic foresight report by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, exploring how mental health in Australia may evolve over the next decade and the choices that could help shape a stronger, more connected and resilient future.
More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the meaning of much of this code remains a mystery.
Carbon emissions from the petrochemical industry could increase by 50% by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, provides the most detailed data to date on emissions from one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.
Look closely at Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, one of Japan's most iconic masterpieces. The brilliant white of the waves, snow on Mount Fuji and clouds above contain no white pigment. Instead, their whiteness comes from the way light scatters off the unprinted fibers of the washi paper itself.
Scientists have discovered various Denisovan remains in Southwest China dating to the late Middle Pleistocene, including the first Denisovan radius—one of two long bones in the forearm.
It can't be heard, but different parts of the human body are in constant conversation, communicating to keep the entire system running efficiently. For biologists, being able to listen in on this discussion is a long-sought-after goal. Over the years, researchers have caught snippets of these exchanges, but the complete dialogue has remained out of reach.
A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first stars ignited—literally the "let there be light" moment for the universe. Now known to astronomers as Population III, or Pop III, stars, these giants were very different from the stars we know today. They formed from pristine hydrogen and helium, with almost no "metal" (i.e., other elements) holding them back. They were also huge, growing to tens to hundreds of times larger than the sun. And they died young, in many cases collapsing into
Cleaner engine standards and a gradual uptake of electric vehicles have been credited with helping improve Auckland's air quality in recent years.
Monash University scientists have developed a global framework to tackle a major blind spot in biodiversity conservation: Insects underpin ecosystems and food production but remain largely invisible to conservation efforts across the tropics.
Senegalese engineers in hairnets and white gloves are carefully assembling a nanosatellite at a French lab—another step toward fostering their own space industry back home.
A new Flinders University study of primary school children shows a science-based digital phonics reading app can accelerate early reading while helping teachers quickly identify students needing extra support.
Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau has erupted again this week, sending plumes of volcanic ash high into the sky and disrupting hundreds of flights. More than 300,000 passengers have been affected.
Microplastics are plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters that originate either from manufactured products or from the breakdown of larger plastic items. They can now be found everywhere, from oceans and rivers to soils and indoor air. Because most plastics degrade very slowly, these particles can remain in the environment for decades or centuries.
As countries compete for skilled workers and grapple with aging populations and labor shortages, understanding who is moving across borders is increasingly important. A new study provides the first global data set of immigration composition disaggregated simultaneously by age, sex and educational attainment, offering a new basis for tracking brain gain and brain drain and improving population projections.
An international team of scientists has recreated a 1,000-year timeline documenting ecological changes and human impact on the area surrounding Crawford Lake, the famed location of the proposed Anthropocene.
Drinking this year's champagne might cause a heftier headache as France's record heat waves force some producers to increase alcohol levels, industry officials said Wednesday.
Cannibalism was sometimes on the Neolithic menu, as numerous archaeological discoveries have revealed. But while ancient human bones show the practice took place, far less evidence exists about the forms it may have taken or why people occasionally consumed one another. Was it to stave off hunger during times of desperation? Did different tribes eat their defeated enemies? Or was cannibalism part of complex rituals?
The birds are up with the sunrise—warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles.
Electronic voting, the use of electronic systems to cast, record or count votes, could potentially simplify the process of electing new political leaders or other representatives. While some countries have already started using internet-connected devices or electronic voting machines at polling stations, the trustworthiness, security and anonymity of electronic voting systems are still widely debated.
In research published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the electronic structures of organic molecules containing sp2-hybridized carbons in organic solvents were studied using C K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), termed "Soft-XAS-OS."
New research challenges the idea that career shocks are bad news for expatriate workers, finding that major personal, professional or societal disruptions can instead act as a catalyst for adaptation and resilience.
New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like tails they use to move. The researchers found that building these tails can put stress on the protective wall surrounding a bacterial cell and uncovered systems bacteria use to keep that stress from becoming destructive.
Pounding surf lashing the swanky California enclave of Malibu on Tuesday opened a giant sinkhole in the driveway of a house reportedly belonging to U.S. actor Nicolas Cage.
A new study has demonstrated that regional microbial imprints can remain detectable under commercial winemaking conditions. The research, appearing in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, shows that inoculated fermentations do not "override" native microbial diversity and that vineyard management and environmental conditions affect wine quality. The study helps explain why wines from different regions taste distinct even when made with similar techniques and supports regional flavors and bran
Wealth redistribution policies currently under discussion in international forums could avert between 6.6 million and 29.5 million deaths by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet and led by ISGlobal in collaboration with other leading economic and health research institutions.
Fed up with funding restrictions surrounding her research on links between climate change and health, American epidemiologist Sheryl Magzamen has left the United States for Canada.
Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that a wandering black hole can feed itself by dragging gas along in its wake as it moves through its galaxy. It's the first direct evidence of an accretion channel long predicted in theory but never before observed. The paper describing this discovery was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 11.
Some people seem naturally tidy. Their keys are always in the same place, clothes make it into the closet, and their kitchen counter remains mysteriously visible.
A new study shows that some U.S. police officers often use the term "bad guys" to describe people who commit crimes, especially when faced with ambiguity in their work. It is a label officers may use to reduce complex and morally challenging situations and contexts into a clearer, more legible framework.
In 2016, when Amazon workers began organizing at a warehouse in Chester, Virginia, the company tracked where employees gathered, posted anti-union messaging in bathroom stalls and held town halls to discourage them. The National Labor Relations Board forced Amazon to admit, in writing, that it had illegally surveilled and threatened workers. The union drive still failed.
The construction of new data centers is shaping up to be a defining issue in the 2026 midterm elections. Politicians in both parties have been distancing themselves from data centers in the face of public discontent around the issue, with public backlash leading to the freezing of dozens of data center projects nationwide this year.
Tracking rent prices may help businesses and policymakers understand where inflation is headed months in advance of government inflation reports, according to researchers at Penn State's Smeal College of Business who developed the Penn State/ACY Alternative Inflation Index. The Penn State index was recently incorporated into the Bloomberg Terminal, a software system that serves financial professionals with real-time market data, news and analytics.
Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, knocking out power for 91% of a western island as it pushed farther into the Pacific on Tuesday.
OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, a claim that also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.
Families' interest in their kids' education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores, according to newly released results from a standardized test taken by 15-year-olds around the world.
For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe's highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain.
There's little worse in a gardener's mind than watching their careful planning and hard work go up in a cloud of teeth, thanks to every four-legged freeloader within chewing distance.
Today's best weather computers would still have struggled to accurately predict the weather for the D-Day landings, University of Reading research shows. The new research, published in the journal Weather ahead of the release of the D-Day film "Pressure," used AI models to produce 50 different forecasts of the storm that famously pushed back the Allies' invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
In new research in the PsyCh Journal, people who tended to analyze experiences as mathematical cost-benefit problems were more likely to ignore moral rules. This tendency was associated with a greater willingness to make ethical compromises for money or status, as well as to accept immoral help when it benefited them.