SScience Read More Researchers discover a hidden whistle inside a horse’s whinnyMarch 7, 2026 A horse’s whinny can sound like two calls at once. One part sits low and rough, like a…
SSpace Read More NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.March 7, 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently announced a significant restructuring of the Artemis program, and how the agency intends…
WWildlife Read More Snake conservationist’s NGO funded by brand that makes bags from pythonsMarch 7, 2026 One of the world’s leading snake conservationists is under fire for his NGO’s financial links to Louis Vuitton,…
SScience Read More Scientists recreate lightning in the lab without storm cloudsMarch 7, 2026 Lightning has always felt like one of those things that only nature can pull off: miles-wide storm clouds,…
SSpace Read More Vast wraps $500M round as company vies for NASA space station contractMarch 7, 2026 Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that…
WWildlife Read More Name the seven-month-old macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo, who has found internet fame for his relationship with a stuffed orangutan toy from Ikea. – The Saturday PaperMarch 7, 2026 Name the seven-month-old macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo, who has found internet fame for his relationship…
SScience Read More Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tensionMarch 6, 2026 The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
SSpace Read More Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its targetMarch 6, 2026 Between October 2022 and March 2025, we captured 22 such stellar occultations of the Didymos system. Combined with…
WWildlife Read More Dance, pluck… then paralyse: the riskiest date night in natureMarch 6, 2026 Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a…
SScience Read More New Insight on Body’s Physical Force DetectionMarch 6, 2026 LA JOLLA, CA—Every time we feel a gentle tap on the skin, specialized nerve cells convert that physical…
EEnvironment Read More Extreme weather is exposing a dangerous flaw in modern buildingsMarch 6, 2026 Most of us don’t see buildings as life-support systems. But that’s exactly what they are. We sleep inside…
SSpace Read More NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study SaysMarch 6, 2026 In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour…