
The Conversation - 21 hours 58 min ago
A new study shows what microbes and odors on human skin appeal to different species of mosquitoes.

The Conversation - 21 hours 58 min ago
Search engines, social media and AI models can be made as safe and reliable as bridges and water supplies.

The Atlantic - 22 hours 27 min ago
Why we need wonder...

Wired - 22 hours 27 min ago
The mission to Phobos, Japan's first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

Newser - 22 hours 59 min ago
Archaeological fakes may now have a tougher time slipping through, thanks to a novel discovery: Scientists say clay keeps a magnetic timestamp that can distinguish ancient pots from modern knockoffs, reports Smithsonian Magazine . Researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography report in PNAS that fired clay records Earth's...

Wired - 23 hours 27 min ago
The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 1 hour ago
If you really squint at a map and spin up your full kindergarten imagination, Great Britain looks like a little cartoon dinosaur roaring at Europe, its tail pointing back across the Atlantic ocean. Zoom in on the tip of that squat tail: this is Cornwall, home of clotted cream and dramatic coastal walks. Right at […] The post A baleful tale of the snails in Hayle appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 1 day 2 hours ago
Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the US for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginative contributions to science, the...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 2 hours ago
For the rainbow stag beetle, its pretty armour is only half the story these beauties are built for battle, one comically large mandible at a time. The post The rainbow stag beetle is not just a pretty mandible appeared first on Australian Geographic .

The Independent - 1 day 3 hours ago
Research into evolutionary history of kissing and how soil organisms break down buried underwear receive top comic science award as well...

Science Daily - 1 day 3 hours ago
A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland's Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic's largest glacier calving event since 2020. The berg later slammed into Joe Island but survived without breaking apart, and satellites are now tracking it as it drifts through Nares Strait.

The Independent - 1 day 3 hours ago
Tim Andrews, who had end-stage kidney disease, was 66 when he received the pig kidney in January 2025...

Nature - 1 day 10 hours ago
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH's institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.

Nature - 1 day 10 hours ago
The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.

Nature - 1 day 10 hours ago
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 September 2026...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 10 hours ago
A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with. The posts, which appeared Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 on the Data Colada … Continue reading Procrastination study by Duke's Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering...

The Conversation - 1 day 15 hours ago
After the deadly Grand Canyon flood, a geologist and avid hiker explains what nature lovers need to prepare and watch for to stay safe.

New York Times - 1 day 16 hours ago
Researchers at Columbia University followed more than a thousand children between 1998 and 2020, testing their cognitive development.

Huffington Post - 1 day 19 hours ago
The conjoined spacecraft known as BepiColombo could enter orbit in November before splitting from each other in December to study the entire planet from different altitudes.

The Atlantic - 1 day 20 hours ago
What will it take for the Dutch to eat them?...

GeekSpin - 1 day 22 hours ago
NASA has just given us 16 more reasons to stare at the universe instead of answering our emails. Scientists have released a dazzling new gallery of galaxies that NASA is calling "cosmic gems." The gallery combines decades of X-ray observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with data from some of humanity’s most powerful telescopes. The […] Read the original article here: NASA reveals rare look at 16 dazzling galactic wonders...

GeekSpin - 1 day 23 hours ago
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has landed a $700 million NASA contract that could play a major role in the future of Mars exploration. The company will develop a new telecommunications orbiter capable of relaying science data, images, navigation information and critical communications between Mars missions and Earth. But why does NASA need a dedicated communications […] Read the original article here: NASA awards $700 million Mars contract to Jeff Bezos...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 3 hours ago
From fastidious cleaning to vigilant protection and forgoing food, the animals of the ocean take parental care to the next level. The post Parenting beneath the waves appeared first on Australian Geographic .