Psychology says people who do their best thinking alone and feel drained after socialising aren't holding themselves back — research suggests they're processing information more deeply than the room around them - Silicon Canals
There is a familiar misreading of quiet people in loud rooms. They are assumed to be hesitant, under-confident, unintere...
This MIT robot flies through the air then dives underwater using the same wings - TechSpot
Diving seabirds like puffins use their wings to both fly and swim, even though air and water behave very differently. "T...
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death - Ars Technica
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage....
Scientists Say They’ve Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door - Yahoo
"This one's exciting."...
The 10 Largest Underground Lakes in the World - WorldAtlas
Beneath glaciers, caves, and mountains lie the world's 10 largest underground lakes, each revealing remarkable geology a...
Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found - Live Science
July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you e...
In July 2026, Europe's Euclid telescope found 31 of the oldest quasars ever seen, two now shining with the light of a trillion suns when the cosmos was just 5 percent of its present age — their glow 13 billion years in the coming - Space Daily
Europe's Euclid telescope has found 31 of the oldest known quasars in one go, and the haul roughly doubles the number kn...
Defying skeptics of women in science, she pioneered GMO research in plants - The Washington Post
Mary-Dell Chilton, who has died at 87, led a team credited with developing the first genetically modified plant....
The rocks at the very summit of Mount Everest are limestone formed on an ancient ocean floor, and fossils of trilobites, sea lilies, and tiny crustaceans have been found in samples collected just six metres below the top of the highest point on Earth - Space Daily
The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest point on Earth above sea ...
China’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon - WIRED
The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting s...
Does fast charging damage your battery more than regular charging? - Live Science
From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day....
We get humans to Mars. What then? Here's what we'll really do on the Red Planet – and why it could solve the greatest mystery in science - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
If humans get to Mars, what will we do there? The dangers of getting humans to the Red Planet and the science we'll do o...
We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeat - Space Daily
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit where temperatures are not...
The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may - The Times of India
Rest of World News: For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic islan...
FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite - SpaceNews
The FCC approved a satellite to test the ability to reflect sunlight into nighttime regions, a project criticized by ast...
Planets, meteor shower, and a Buck Moon: Astronomical events for July 2026 - WESH
Hopefully, the heat won't keep you from getting a look at a few astronomical events this summer....
Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution - Sci.News
Today, lepidosaurs -- the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara -- are among the most ...
Dark energy flips its sign, but the Hubble tension refuses to budge - Phys.org
For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, t...
An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Webb has produced two tentative hints of dimethyl sulfide—a gas produced mainly by marine microorganisms on Earth—but independent analyses dispute - Space Daily
Webb has twice hinted at dimethyl sulfide, a life-linked gas, at the possible ocean world K2-18b. Independent teams re-e...
A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe - Space
"Such high-energy events can provide astronomers with a wealth of insights. We can study the physical processes in some ...
When a deep-sea robot ventured down into the Atlantic's Doldrums, it found something massive no one expected – leaving scientists stunned - BBC Wildlife Magazine
During a month-long mid-Atlantic expedition, underwater robots found rare hydrothermal vent systems, fish with transluce...
This Huge Galactic Structure Is 23 Million Light-Years Long, And We Can't Comprehend It - ScienceAlert
There are plenty of mind-bendingly large structures in our Universe....
Lab-grown sperm: scientists inch closer to fertility breakthrough - Nature
Sci-fi procedure creates immature human sperm from stem cells, nurturing them on a mouse’s kidney....
Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes - Gizmodo
The universe keeps telling us that black holes exist in an "impossible" mass zone. That's leaving astronomers to find al...