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…
Scientists Melt Diamond At Record Pressures, Solving A Decades-Old Mystery About How It Behaves
A team of physicists has resolved a long-standing scientific puzzle over exactly how diamond melts under extreme pressure,…
Emergency alert warning of wildfire risk sent to phones in England and Wales | Wildfires
Millions of people across England and Wales received an emergency alert to their phones on Friday as the…
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878, today, the population of 11,000 is on the verge of eradicating the island’s forests
Newfoundland introduced moose for food in the region more than a century ago. Today, about 110,000 of their…
E. Shyam P. Reddy on Overcoming Endosomal Escape Barriers in ASO Cancer Therapy
E. Shyam P. Reddy/LinkedIn E. Shyam P. Reddy, Professor and Director of the Cancer Biology Program at Morehouse…
Warnings in effect: Tropical Storm Lala strengthens ahead of Hawaii strike
Tropical Storm Lala will track near Hawaii this weekend, likely as a low-end Category 1 hurricane, with threats…
The solar eclipse over Big Ben. Photographer captures the Moon passing in front of the Sun over London
A photographer has captured a composite image showing the stages of the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse over…
They’re a whopping 150 million years older than dinosaurs, look like a shark, have a tail like a rat, teeth like a rabbit and sharp, venomous spines
Deep in the ocean is an ancient fish that glides along by flapping their wing-like pectoral fins instead…
This Week in Science: AI Agents Come to an Agreement, Gemstones on Mars, And More! : ScienceAlert
We know you’re all incredibly busy, so each week, we round up the science stories you need to…