Skyfall Mars helicopters are getting a major antenna upgrade with ground-penetrating radar
NASA develops a flexible, fabric-based antenna for its next Mars SkyFall helicopters that will test for frozen water…
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we’re excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is…
The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn’t really about a discovery, it’s about a…
Los Angeles doorbell camera captures massive mountain lion crossing a driveway at night
Chad Landers, a Los Angeles homeowner, is used to seeing wildlife through his home’s Ring camera. But the…
150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flower
Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant from China, has been confirmed as carnivorous because it attracts, traps, digests,…
Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires | Wildfires
On Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone…
Our solar system is racing through space nearly four times faster than thought
Our solar system is racing through space nearly four times faster than thought – Futura-Sciences August 15, 2026…
Teenager pleas guilty to attacking California sea lion in viral video | California
An 18-year-old California man has admitted he kicked a sea lion in a video that went viral recently…
Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies…
Abandoned Russian tanker leaking oil off Oman coast, threatening environmental disaster
A Russian tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil has run aground off the coast of Oman —…
NASA develops AI to predict solar storms 12 hours before they appear
NASA scientists are using artificial intelligence to detect hidden magnetic activity beneath the Sun’s surface. A machine-learning model…
A squid pulled from a sperm whale’s stomach during an Antarctic whaling expedition in 1955–56 sat overlooked in scientific collections for nearly 70 years — until researchers realised it wasn’t just a new species, but an entirely new family of oceanic squid no one knew existed.
A preserved squid collected from a sperm whale’s stomach in 1955 or 1956 has turned out to be…