China boosts prestigious grants for young scientists â will it ease competition? - Nature
The National Natural Science Foundation of China says it will fund an extra 12,000 projects from this year....
Northern Lights Alert: 26 States May See Aurora On July 4 - Forbes
NOAAâs Space Weather Prediction Center has forecast up to G3-class geomagnetic storm conditions for Friday, July 3, th...
Astronomers found a third galaxy with almost no dark matter, and all three sit on the same straight line â pointing to a collision that tore ordinary matter loose - Space Daily
The stars inside a faint galaxy called DF9 drift so slowly that its whole mass matches its visible stars alone. It is th...
"These lethal 20cm thorns cause severe puncture wounds & painful infections." The tree that's still armed against monsters last seen 12,000 years ago - BBC Wildlife Magazine
The honey locust gets its name from the sweet pulp within its fruit â but apart from that, thereâs nothing sweet abo...
Scientists discover a protein switch that burns fat and blocks new fat cells - ScienceDaily
A protein called âMitchâ may hold the key to a new generation of obesity treatments. Researchers found that disablin...
A rare meteorite found in the Sahara may be a surviving shard of a lost Moon-sized world â one that formed beside the young Sun, followed a path unlike Earth or Mars, and was smashed apart while the planets were still being built. - Space Daily
A rock about the size of a fist, found lying in the Sahara, may be a surviving shard of a lost world nearly as large as ...
Fossil jaws hidden inside Cretaceous rocks have revealed that 100 million years ago, some octopuses grew into giant predators â possibly longer than a bus and more fearsome than any octopus alive today. - Space Daily
Octopuses are among the worst animals to leave behind as fossils. Their bodies are mostly soft tissue. They have no back...
Graphene Caught Holding Multiple Superconducting States At One Time - ScienceAlert
Superconductivity, the ability for materials to conduct electricity with zero resistance, is a valuable scientific treas...
In November, a spacecraft that has spent eight years falling toward the Sun will finally settle into orbit around Mercury, a planet we have seen up close fewer times than almost any other in the solar system. - Space Daily
In November, a spacecraft called BepiColombo, after nearly eight years looping through the inner solar system, will fina...
Artemis IIâs Nikon Z9 Was Way More Important for Science Than Expected - PetaPixel
The Nikon Z9 did some stellar space science....
A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Virusesâand Itâs Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds - Gizmodo
Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces âan ancient mechanismâ for fighting viruses that ...
Scientists Thought Ravens Followed Wolves for Food. They Were Wrong. Ravens Predict Them - ZME Science
New GPS tracking suggests ravens navigate Yellowstone using a mental map of wolf kills....
'Stellar death is not the end': James Webb Space Telescope glimpses the fate of the solar system in a weird exoplanet orbiting a dead star - Space
"It's like using a time machine to peer into the distant future of our solar system."...
Scientists Find the Grossest, Most Efficient Way to Clean a Skeleton - Gizmodo
An all-natural solution at its finest....
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have descr - Space Daily
Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre. Most of the ti...
Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition - Phys.org
Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful th...
Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. 'This one is exciting' - Space
The planet, designated GJ 3378b, orbits the faint red dwarf star in the constellation of Camelopardalis, the Giraffe....
Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? Nature readers weigh in - Nature
Nature readers share their PhD time-management woes....
Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born, which means the roughly 8 billion of us alive today are about 7% of everyone who has ever lived - Space Daily
Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureauâs estimate for how many people ...
James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan - Live Science
A new James Webb Space Telescope study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both Pluto and Sa...
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webbâs New Universe - Quanta Magazine
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that werenât expected to exist, scientists have come up with...
This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret - Defector
To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghelâs paintings teem with m...
A galaxy confirmed this January formed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, and the part astronomers cannot explain is that it is far too large, far too soon, as if the early universe was building things it was not supposed to be able to build yet. - Space Daily
Light from a galaxy called JADES-GS-z14-0 left on its way to us when the universe was only about 290 million years old, ...
A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive - Phys.org
All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins...