Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent…
Measuring Iron In Motion At Earth-core Conditions
It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But…
Washington records world’s worst air quality for a city after 850,000 Fourth of July fireworks | Washington DC
Washington DC residents breathed in “unhealthy” air for hours after a 40-minute Independence Day fireworks show over the…
Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
A physicist built a ‘mini-universe’ out of ultracold atoms and watched time being born inside it.
For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system —…
Lesbian Albatrosses, Seahorse Dads, and the Freedom of Sex
Willow A big throughline of this work is that sexual diversity is biodiversity. For anyone who is new…
Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture With Neanderthals for 20,000 Years
Most people alive today possess a small amount of Neanderthal DNA—a biological relic from tens of thousands of…
Record wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost | Wildfires
When storm after storm battered the Mediterranean at the start of the year, drowning fields and sending water…
NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft discovered a “super-Jupiter” with a new method.
Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM UTC NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft discovered a “super-Jupiter” with a new method.…
Florida airboat captain helps stranded helicopter crew from alligator-filled Lake Jesup
Downed helicopter, crew rescued from alligator-infested Lake Jessup Central Florida Airboat captain Derrick Lockhart recalled a unique call…
2 asteroid flybys yield new closeup images
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) just shared an image from the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Torifune. On July…
‘Frankenstein organisms’ and ‘crystal supercells’ are among 31 new species discovered after marine biologists sent a robot into one of the least-explored parts of the ocean off Brazil
Some of the creatures had the appearance of being assembled rather than formed by growth. Other creatures were…