NASA Seeks US Industry Plans for Commercial Space Stations
NASA is advancing American leadership in space by taking the next step toward a future where commercial space…
Jonathan the tortoise: Oldest land animal may hold longevity clues
A new genetic analysis has revealed potential clues to the longevity secrets of a giant tortoise named Jonathan,…
October 9, 2026 Researchers make ‘molecular movies’ with powerful X-rays to help advance therapeutics
Researchers used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to study the AspH enzyme – a potential therapeutic target for…
Guano mining left Lady Elliot Island a barren wasteland. Now it’s a tropical oasis
Lady Elliot island has been rehabilitated by hand, with more than 20,000 plants. (Supplied) For thousands of years…
Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
Astronomers revisiting decades-old observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a new clue in a long-running cold…
Tuning a quantum computer: what a violin teaches us about qubit calibration Qubit calibration explained: tuning a quantum computer
Insider brief A new episode of The Quantum Kid’s Kai Asks series uses a violin to explain qubit…
Country Life: Former Wellington zookeeper helps Europe’s rescue bears
Winter is closing in at a forest in Bavaria, and former Wellington zookeeper John Pickard is giving the…
Newly selected NASA mission will hunt for caves on the Moon
The Marius Hills Pit is a large hole, approximately 213 by 295 feet (65 by 90 meters), located…
U.S. Oil Drilling Continues to Inch Upward
By Julianne Geiger – Oct 09, 2026, 12:31 PM CDT The total number of active drilling rigs for…
NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public
NASA has just released about 800 gigabytes of scientific data generated by the Artemis II mission. The archive…
Atomic-scale visualization of three-dimensional magnetization vectors with competing spin Hamiltonian interactions
Fernández-Pacheco, A. et al. Three-dimensional nanomagnetism. Nat. Commun. 8, 15756 (2017). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Coey,…
Wildlife populations have declined 73% since 1970 – but many of the world’s animals still aren’t being counted
Wildlife populations around the world have declined by an average of 73% since 1970. That’s according to the…