A team of archaeologists in Saqqara has uncovered the first ancient Egyptian mummy workshop ever discovered, revealing embalming practices and burial rituals of the elite. The excavation in…
WISeSat.Space and FOSSA Systems have confirmed an October 2026 satellite launch that will begin a new series of missions supporting the QSOC Quantum Spatial Orbital Cloud, a decentralized s…
A new biophysics study from ISTA and the Francis Crick Institute shows that irregular, disordered microenvironments around tumor cells promote detachment and metastasis, revealing a general…
A newly discovered star, S301, orbits the Milky Way's central black hole faster than any known star, offering a rare chance to measure the black hole's spin.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, buried deep in Antarctic ice at the South Pole, has detected high-energy neutrinos from distant cosmic sources, opening a new window on the universe.
A new WWF analysis of nearly 36,000 animal populations finds a 73% average decline since 1970, but recoveries in tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show that targeted conservation can rever…
A newly described fossil turtle from northern South America, Chelus colombiana, lived 10 to 15 million years ago and ranks among the largest freshwater turtles ever identified, offering a w…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a major climate change case that pits Boulder officials against Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil, with justices grappling over whether the lawsuit can proceed.
Belgian physicist Francis Halzen, 82, receives the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, ope…
Two years after launch, the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is performing its most challenging operation yet: a series of braking maneuvers to slow down and approach its target aste…
Flávio Bolsonaro's strong showing in Brazil's first-round presidential vote has alarmed climate campaigners, who warn that a return to his family's environmental policies could push the Ama…
A new two-hour BBC Earth compilation brings together natural history footage of animals that shape the planet's ecosystems, from coastal habitats to the open ocean.
Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Gabrielle Canon answered reader questions about El Niño, warning that the current event is a major one and that its impacts are intertwined with broad…
Archaeologists in Germany's Taunus Mountains have uncovered a temple dedicated to the Roman war god Mars, part of a well-preserved settlement that housed merchants and military families nea…
A reader's tip leads to a tour of Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships and Museum of Hangovers, two institutions that mix psychology, chemistry, and neurophysiology with the oddities of …
Le comité Nobel a décerné le prix de chimie 2026 au Français Henri Kagan et au Japonais Kenso Soai pour leurs travaux sur les effets non linéaires et l'autocatalyse en synthèse organique as…
A 163- to 168-million-year-old fossil from Inner Mongolia shows that the ability to suckle and swallow evolved before the rise of modern mammals, and that this early relative led a semi-aqu…
A new library in Adams County, Colorado, lends books alongside camping gear, night-vision goggles and bear-tracking kits to help residents connect with the natural world for free.
A new theoretical method uses quantum spin correlations in electron-positron collisions to probe the electromagnetic dipole moments of quarks, offering a complementary search for physics be…
Engineers in Australia and France have developed a lightweight, strong titanium metamaterial that floats in water by filling hollow struts with polymer foam, opening new possibilities for m…
Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen have experimentally confirmed that polar molecules stop colliding effectively at ultracold temperatures, a finding that could reshape quantum simu…
La Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias reconoce a Henri B. Kagan y Kenso Soai por desarrollar una reacción química que genera espontáneamente una sola imagen especular, un hallazgo clave para e…
French astronaut Sophie Adenot is set to return to Earth after more than 230 days aboard the International Space Station, the longest mission ever by a European woman. She will undergo an e…
The Slowpoke reactor at Polytechnique Montréal turns 50 this year, producing just 20 kilowatts of thermal energy — enough to power six or seven toasters — as the university seeks to revive …