Rice and NASA Launch Open-source Remote Space Robotics Simulator
Insider Brief Rice University and NASA Johnson Space Center launched an open-source simulator for developing robots that could…
India wins 5 golds at International Physics Olympiad 2026, shares rank 1
5 Indian students have won gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 2026, held in Bucaramanga,…
If you compressed the entire history of Earth into a single calendar year, humans appear at 11:36 pm on the 31st of December, agriculture at 11:59, and everything written down in history occupies the final 15 seconds before midnight
The most useful thing about compressing Earth’s history into a calendar year is not that the timestamps are…
The South African trailblazers seeking to change how wildlife documentaries are made | Nature documentaries
When Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series for South African TV in 2015, they were…
7 prominent scientists and experts who left US, UK for China in 2026
Dozens of scientists and experts have left the U.S. and Britain for China this year for reasons ranging…
Rare dolphin sighting off Vancouver Island has researchers intrigued – CTV News
Rare dolphin sighting off Vancouver Island has researchers intrigued CTV News‘Extraordinarily rare’ dolphin sightings reported in B.C.’s waters Global NewsRare…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, used Mars as a gravitational slingshot in May 2026, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to gain the speed it needed — Mars as a stepping stone rather than a destination
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft did not go to Mars because Mars was the destination. It went there because Mars…
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
The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest…
Astronomers are finding space junk too small to track, and it’s getting dangerous
The satellites that run your weather forecasts, your television, and a significant portion of global communications all occupy…
The Universe Was Barely Born When These Giant Black Holes Appeared
A quasar emits exceptional amounts of energy generated by matter falling into a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA…
AI Just Uncovered a Hidden Secret Inside Water
Schematic illustration of this study: artificial intelligence predicts temperature from molecular configuration of water. Credit: 2026, Kohei Yoshikawa…
A single rare meteorite has revealed the chemical fingerprint of a Moon-sized world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision — a lost planet science never knew existed until it landed as a rock
A one-pound rock found in the Sahara in 2019 has become evidence for something much larger than itself:…