Antarctica’s sea ice has undergone a stunning reversal
Antarctic sea ice reached its annual winter peak in September 2026, but the ice covered less ocean than…
In the Search for Exoplanets, Some Failures Are A Success
In the near future, powerful new telescopes will power a big leap in exoplanet science. Telescopes like the…
Image of Elephant Carrying Dead Calf Wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 » Explorersweb
Federico Veronesi was following a family of elephants in the Huab River Valley of Namibia when he came…
Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus
An Inuit carving of a European, dated to around AD 1350 — the earliest depiction of a European…
Is coal really making a comeback?
Coal was on the way out. That’s how it looked last year, anyway, when the International Energy Agency…
James Webb reveals a strange bulge in an alien planet’s atmosphere
Astronomers have long depicted distant exoplanets with smooth, circular outlines. But new observations reveal that the atmospheres surrounding…
Did the universe begin at a single point, or has it always been infinite?
Bjørn Ludvigsen, a reader, has submitted a question to Science Norway: ‘It is assumed that the Big Bang…
Uncovering the secrets of New Zealand’s elusive ‘jungle penguins’ | New Zealand
Deep in the misty fjords of New Zealand’s South Island, a team of researchers is trying to catch…
Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
A protein is a chain of amino acids held together by what are called peptide bonds. On their…
The outdoors activity that makes you more likely to eat healthily
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No more leap seconds! Timekeeping is officially changing
The world’s timekeepers announced on Thursday that leap seconds will no longer be added to clocks starting in…
Physicists find evidence of weird quantum ‘Bethe strings’ nearly 100 years after they were predicted
“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence to support a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory. In 1931, physicists…