I spoke to the first ever AI chatbot – they’ve been deluding people from the beginning - The Independent
As millions share their deepest secrets with Claude and ChatGPT, Liam Murphy-Robledo goes back to the source – a 1966 ...
Underwater drones discover coral reefs off Benin, long presumed dead, teeming with life - Phys.org
A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, foc...
We assume life needs a sun, but a team at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich calculated in 2026 that moons orbiting starless rogue planets could sustain liquid oceans for up to 4.3 billion years — roughly as long as Earth has existed — without a single ra - Space Daily
The conditions for life may not require starlight at all—just the right moon orbiting the right rogue planet....
In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet - Space Daily
What ground control dismissed as static turned out to be humanity's first whisper from another world....
Astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at once describe the overview effect — every war and border and argument hanging in silence — and afterwards traffic and small talk can feel strangely far away, like the world seen through glass - Space Daily
Edgar Mitchell coined a private version of it on Apollo 14 in 1971; Frank White gave it a name in 1987; and in April 202...
Astronauts returning from long stays in orbit say the smell of rain is almost too much to bear and a familiar street feels like something they are piloting rather than driving - Space Daily
Scott Kelly and other long-duration ISS crew describe overwhelming smells, painful feet, and a driving sensation that fe...
When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents - Space Daily
A broken wheel became a shovel, revealing mineral signatures that suggested Mars once harbored conditions suitable for m...
The daytime habit that could transform your sleep, according to new study - Fox News
A study of 89 adults found that brighter, more consistent daylight exposure was linked to earlier sleep timing and more ...
Cassini watched bright “islands” appear, disappear and reappear in Titan’s methane seas — and laboratory experiments suggest they may be fields of nitrogen bubbles fizzing out of solution as the alien lakes warm or mix - Space Daily
A possible solution to Saturn's moon mystery: nitrogen bubbles rising through alien seas as conditions shift beneath the...
Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere - Space Daily
Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges ...
A century-old stellar mystery may finally have an explanation - Phys.org
For more than a century, astronomers have puzzled over a strange discrepancy in the historical record. Theta Eridani, a ...
I felt a brutal sense of physical decline in my 40s, so I took these 5 crucial steps to rewind the clock on my health and fitness - BikeRadar
Can you reverse the dreaded midlife health slump? Our 44-year-old writer shares his hard-earned lessons for optimal midd...
DNA from 457 koalas suggests the species nearly went extinct 100,000 years ago, before humans reached Aus - The Times of India
Science News: A major genetic study has found that koalas almost became extinct about 100,000 years ago because of major...
In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen atmosphere — but the gravity-assist geometry bent the spacecraft permanently out of the planetary plane, trading Uranus and Neptune for one close look at Saturn’s largest moon - Space Daily
On 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 passed 6,490 kilometres from Titan’s centre, about 3,900 kilometres above the moon’s ...
'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever - Live Science
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a r...
10 places in the US and Canada to see August's partial solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower in 1 trip - Space
A partial solar eclipse by day and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower by night make Aug. 12, 2026, one of the best ni...
Prehistoric insects were absolutely massive. Here's why they needed to be so darn big - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Richard Jones explains just why prehistoric insects were so large......
Physicists Just Turned a Black Hole Energy Theory Into Reality - SciTechDaily
Scientists have recreated a famous black hole phenomenon in the lab using synthetic rotation, bringing a 50-year-old the...
Scientists Studying Earth's Flowering Plants Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity - ScienceAlert
From the beloved vanilla orchid, whose pods flavor many of our favorite desserts, to the nose-twisting corpse flower, wh...
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test - South China Morning Post
Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster ...
Plants that make real dairy protein? Scientists discover an unexpected shortcut - Phys.org
What if the plants growing in a field could one day produce the same proteins that give milk its nutrition, texture and ...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves - Space
"What JWST is revealing is that black holes may be the ultimate cosmic recyclers."...
I was ashamed of my $100,000 debt. When I finally told my friends, they helped me come up with a plan. - Business Insider
I'm a single mom with medical debt and felt like I failed. But I learned that my friends have also experienced debt; now...
We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns - Gizmodo
New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geo...