Heat waves are simultaneously hitting Europe, North America, and Asia, driven in part by the hot waters in the tropical Pacific—and climate change.
In the wake of July’s buck moon on July 29 comes an “eclipse season,” with a total solar eclipse followed by a deep partial eclipse of the sturgeon moon on Aug. 27-28.
As NASA joins up with Europe to plan a lunar astronaut base, one EU designer envisions robotically building a fantastical Moon Temple open to all the world’s spacefarers.
Several cruise lines are sailing into the path of the August 12, 2026, total solar eclipse—with NASA veterans and other astronauts on board.
The latest discovery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it’s previously only found them in small patches, […]
Today marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the theme “Trapped Behind the Scam.” This draws attention to trafficking victims forced into online fraud.
New research reveals the surprising habit that quietly dulls a sharp mind — and it’s not neglect, it’s the competence you’ve already built up over the years.
Basking sharks are not just drifting long-distance travelers relying on stored energy. Satellite tags reveal they likely feed throughout their migrations, diving deep into the mesopelagic zone to track dense layers of small organisms like fish and zoop…
The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $1…
Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published a result in Nature on Wednesday: a silicon quantum processor that, in effect, runs its…