Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations
Our cosmological initial conditions are based on the simulation Phi-4096 of ref. 51. In this work, a dark-matter-only N-body…
How GPS collars and camera traps changed the ‘long-accepted wisdom’ about male Lions and Hyenas in African Savannahs, surprising Zoologists
AI-generated image for representation For years, researchers have assumed a common relationship between lions and spotted hyenas on…
Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
By Seth BorensteinAP Science Writer Sept. 16, 2026 12 PM PT About 12.5 trillion tons of ice from…
How to help a lot of animals (without going vegetarian)
Many people, when they learn about the horrors of factory farming, become vegetarian or vegan. I’m one of…
NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Taking a Quantum Leap, Again
Published September 16, 2026 This is a summary of a story on Pratt School of Engineering. The National…
Guardian of the Herd | Nat Geo Photo of the Day
The chest of a Samburu warrior in Ngurunit, Kenya, bears traditional scarifications and a Catholic rosary. Known as…
NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new “postcard.”
Posted Sep 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM UTC NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a…
‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season | Firefighters
Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say the federal government is failing them at a time…
For Trans-Neptunian Objects, The Past Is Written On Their Surface
The formation of our solar system was a complex process, but there are two things we know quite…
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Meanwhile, on the theory side, things have been in a bit of flux. As we’ve added ever more…
A mammoth-ivory hunter pulled a wolf’s head from the Siberian permafrost with its fur, whiskers and brain still intact — the animal had been dead for roughly 40,000 years
Forty thousand years in cold storage, and the animal still looked annoyed. That was roughly the scene on…