Physicists Just Achieved Superconductivity at Highest Temperature Yet – Under Normal Pressure
Superconductive materials could revolutionize electronics – if only they weren’t so fussy. Coaxing materials into this state, where…
Watch: Great white shark might be the first caught on camera in Rhode Island
July 7 (UPI) — Marine researchers in Rhode Island captured video of what might be the first great…
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 —…
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…
Wildflower meadow returned without planting a single seed
A patch of farmland left to its own devices for over a decade has quietly transformed into a…
See fireworks from space as ISS orbits over US during July 4th
Updated July 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m. ET The space agency shared a video showing fireworks over Los Angeles…
‘That’s going to come back and bite us’: Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans
The former head of NASA is questioning the agency’s plans to return astronauts to the moon, asking whether…
Women are left picking up the pieces in heatwave disruption | Inequality
Your report (‘We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave, 26 June) highlights…
Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk photo of the day for July 7, 2026
NASA astronaut Chris Williams flexes his muscles while on a spacewalk in this image snapped by fellow astronaut…