Scientist proposes tiny satellites to sniff out nuclear weapons in space - Financial Times
Idea would help deal with danger of conflict in increasingly crowded orbits around Earth...
A Hidden Nuclear Weapon Could Already Be Orbiting Earth. This MIT Physicist Has a Plan to Find It - Gizmodo
The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't car...
Is Life Just Different? - Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our unde...
Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing...
Long-theorized electron-on-helium qubit achieves strong coupling to a single microwave photon - Phys.org
Quantum computers, devices that store and process information leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, have been ...
Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests - ScienceAlert
We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our speci...
A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was rejected, and ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester now leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency - Space Daily
In 2001, ahead of the opening of the National Space Centre in Leicester, a teenager on work experience was helping to pr...
Within hours of reaching microgravity, astronauts’ body fluids shift toward the head, dulling smell and taste — one reason NASA monitors daily nutrition so closely as crews fight the muscle loss space exercise alone cannot fully prevent - Space Daily
The first thing that happens to a body in orbit is that it starts to rearrange itself. With no gravity pulling blood and...
Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new study suggests - Space
"Observations of sun-like giant stars currently point towards Earth's survival, but we need better observations before w...
What happens to your brain in space? - BBC
Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might have implications for missions beyond the Moon....
What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August - Phys.org
Day will briefly turn into night across a swath of northern Spain on Aug. 12, when the moon will completely cover the su...
An Unknown Chemical Signature Has Been Detected on Pluto And Titan - ScienceAlert
Two worlds at almost opposite ends of the Solar System have just given us a mystery we didn't even know existed....
30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now? - The Conversation
Today, cloning is not a technology that can simply “copy and paste” living things. But it’s brought advances in se...
Asteroid 16 Psyche, a metal-rich world roughly 225 kilometres wide orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, may contain extraordinary amounts of iron and nickel — enough that back-of-the-envelope estimates have put its theoretical metal value at around $10,000 - Space Daily
The number attached to asteroid 16 Psyche is so large that it almost stops being a number. Around $10,000 quadrillion. T...
New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails - Sci.News
Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence f...
James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site - Space
"No single telescope tells the whole story. Discoveries build over time, and new observatories expand on the foundations...
Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature - Gizmodo
Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissu...
Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought - Space
Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy....
Steering light in a flash: New chip redirects light beams in less than a trillionth of a second - Phys.org
Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the develo...
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan - WIRED
Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic d...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in August 2026, is expected to discover around 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission — more than every telescope in the history of astronomy combined - Space Daily
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the ...
Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture - CNN
Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools,...
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab - Live Science
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system....
China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa - Space
Some scientists believe the quasi-moon could have been created when a massive impact knocked a chunk of our own moon int...