Spend A Day As A Sea Bunny And We’ll Tell You Which Ocean You Belong In - BuzzFeed
How the heck are these weird lil' creatures so cute?!...
The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold - ScienceAlert
Materials in a quantum state come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge potential to scien...
Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' but they did it anyway: Inside Japan's super-close asteroid flyby - Space
A last-minute proposal saw Hayabusa2 whizz within just 800 meters of a near-Earth asteroid....
Geologists have taught for decades that rivers needed plants to form their distinctive S-shaped meanders, but Stanford University researchers published a study in August 2025 showing that rivers were carving those curves long before vegetation existed on la - Space Daily
For most of Earth’s history, no trees, grasses or roots held riverbanks together. The familiar geological picture has ...
Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - ScienceDaily
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the sol...
Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole — and that water carries the building blocks of life - Space Daily
Enceladus is only about 500 kilometres across, yet it continuously ejects water vapour and ice from fractures near its s...
A Major Ocean Current Is On The Verge of Collapse. Scientists Say The Effects May Reach California - ScienceAlert
Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected....
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long - Space Daily
Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains ...
In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth - Space Daily
On 2 January 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres per ...
An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature - Space Daily
A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy ...
Scientists use relay synthesis to create key building blocks of reserve antibiotic to combat resistance - Phys.org
Chemists from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have achieved an important research success in the fight against re...
NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video - Phys.org
The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in prep...
A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make - Space Daily
The dwarf galaxy Sextans A is poor in the elements astronomers collectively call metals. Yet observations from the James...
Nanoparticles could remove harmful immune molecules from blood - Phys.org
The immune system, the body's defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these...
New super strong glue grips non-stick surfaces and wipes away easily - Phys.org
In a research lab at the University of Tokyo, scientists have developed a new kind of glue. It's incredibly strong and h...
Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb - Space Daily
The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly 16...
Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch - Space Daily
Researchers working with material returned by China's Chang'e-5 mission reported on 16 July 2025 that they had used conc...
'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planet - Live Science
Amino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024....
Diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, an owl researcher kept working till the end - The Washington Post
David Johnson, who has died at 69, was a leading owl researcher and conservationist. “I didn’t pick owls,” he said...
New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem - SciTechDaily
Scientists may have found a more realistic set of thermodynamic rules for black holes that never stop changing....
Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese submersible found thousands of blood-red tubeworms and white clams thriving on leaking methane — the deepest animal ecosystem ever discovered on Earth - Space Daily
On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Science...
This New Process Turns Plastic Trash Into Clean Fuel Instead of Pollution - Gizmodo
This approach is far more carbon- and energy-efficient than conventional methods, according to the researchers....
Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China - Retraction Watch
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watc...
You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space - Futurism
Astronomers peering in the heart of the Milky Way have spotted sugar floating in space for the first time....