Support for climate and biodiversity policies differs across cultural worldviews in Japan
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C. Science 365, eaaw6974…
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:…
Rubin Observatory begins its 10-year sky survey
A telescope on a mountaintop in Chile has begun recording the most detailed time-lapse of the night sky…
The discovery at the Solar System’s frozen edge that deepened a long-running astronomical puzzle, casting new doubt on ‘Planet Nine’ — the giant, unseen world some astronomers believe is quietly tugging at the most distant orbits
A small icy world found far beyond Pluto has made the case for some proposed versions of Planet…
New black box helps track crashed nuclear spacecraft to prevent leaks
If a rocket carrying a nuclear reactor explodes on its way to deep space, how do you find…
Can scientists build life from scratch?
For centuries, people have argued about what separates something that’s alive from something that’s simply chemistry. Every living…
Trump administration weakens protections for threatened animal species
The Trump administration finalized a major change on Friday to how threatened species are considered in agency actions,…
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…
Mystery spheres found on Australian beach are likely space debris
Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are “suspected…
WATCH: Jellyfish bloom transforms Irish Sea into a living mosaic
Two kayakers were shocked after rowing into a jellyfish bloom off the coast of County Waterford on July…
AI Detects Hidden Warning Signs Before Major Earthquakes
Unsupervised machine learning, combined with the analysis of earthquake sequences as interacting events, can help identify precursor signals…