Sound waves and water droplets transform paper waste into higher-value chemical compound - Phys.org
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a fast, simple way to turn lignin, a plentiful...
Particle shape and size predict asteroid strength, revealing Bennu's surface is 50 times weaker than ground coffee - Phys.org
In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular a...
Venus is becoming a thinner crescent — and that's when it finally starts making sense - space.com
Venus is sinking into the sunset as it catches up with Earth — and a small telescope now reveals something the naked e...
I raised 5 kids. Looking back, their careers as adults make perfect sense. - Business Insider
Looking back, I can see signs of my five kids' future careers in their childhood interests. I'm glad I supported them wi...
Watch a Monarch Caterpillar Become a Butterfly in Seconds - A-Z Animals
Watch a monarch caterpillar shed its skin, form a chrysalis, and emerge as a butterfly while learning how to witness met...
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 p - Space Daily
An accidental aerosol capture during Pioneer Venus's descent may have recorded hydrated salts and far more bound water t...
Brain of a male fly completely mapped, joins earlier map of a female brain - Ars Technica
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice....
Roman Space Telescope live updates: NASA begins spacecraft commissioning process - Space
The Roman Telescope launched on Aug. 30, at 7:26 a.m. ET....
Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern - Phys.org
For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelg...
Stars forge and deliver the elements that make up your body — and scientists may finally know how - Space
"It gives us new insight into one of the biggest unanswered questions in astrophysics."...
Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years - scitechdaily.com
A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica withou...
Scientists Found a Massive Ice Reservoir Hidden Beneath Utah’s Rocky Mountains - gizmodo.com
It's enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools....
The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah. New DNA Evidence Shows Just How Wrong Scientists Had It - gizmodo.com
An analysis of ancient DNA reveals new details about the range, diet, and evolutionary history of this extinct predator....
Rescue satellite gets close to NASA’s doomed telescope, even if it can’t save it - AP News
A private spacecraft that was supposed to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has managed to come within nine miles of...
Hubble Telescope sees spectacular 'superbubble' photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2026 - Space
The enchanting scene comes courtesy of the Large Magellanic Cloud....
This Startup Wants to Reach Alpha Centauri in 80,000 Years. And It’ll Only Cost $15 Million - Gizmodo
"None of us will be here when this journey ends, and that is the point."...
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust - Space
"This transition, from a spherical cloud to a protoplanetary disk, is one of the most significant events in all of solar...
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO - Ars Technica
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week....
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away - Space
A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy ...
Deep in the Amazon, researchers found birds and monkeys passing predator warnings from one species to another — a single alarm can ripple through the canopy as other animals hear it, react and pass the danger on - Space Daily
Across the canopy, a single alarm call becomes an emergency broadcast system as creatures who never saw the danger relay...
Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on it - Space Daily
What scientists witnessed off Dominica wasn't just a whale birth—it was an act of interspecies cooperation that rewrit...
Introducing: The New Space-Tested SC02C, a Mechanical Chronograph by Konstantin Chaykin - Monochrome Watches
Made for cosmonauts and tested during spacewalks, the SC02C brings Chaykin’s professional space chronograph to civilia...
A Billion Tons of Ice Are Hiding Under Utah, Study Finds - ScienceAlert
When we picture glaciers, it's easy to imagine vast expanses of white ice gleaming under the sky....
NASA's Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for 13 years and never saw a shape at the south pole, but when the planet's slow seasons tilted that pole back toward Earth, a giant ten-sided figure was waiting there — and it had not existed while the probe was watch - Space Daily
A perfect ten-sided storm has materialized at Saturn's south pole—and it vanished the moment scientists stopped lookin...