
Popular Mechanics - 18 hours 45 min ago
The controversial idea might help explain experiences like remote viewing and out-of-body feelings.

Science Alert - 19 hours 33 min ago
D. rex's fruiting bodies were discovered in the forests of Yunnan Province. (Song et al., Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2026) Tall as a traffic cone. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Ars Technica - 20 hours 23 min ago
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.

Ars Technica - 20 hours 54 min ago
Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.

Popular Mechanics - 20 hours 56 min ago
Researchers haven't proved that radiation caused the dogs' genetic differences. But if exposure left harmful inherited changes, their descendants could carry those changes somewhere else.

Ars Technica - 22 hours 36 min ago
Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 39 min ago
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of the dam associated with it, Weikuang Dam (or Baogang Tailings Dam), has for decades collected the effluent from minerals processing for China's globally dominant iron, steel, and rare-earths industries. Built in the late 1950s, the lake contains a highly toxic...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 40 min ago
The global campaigns to break China's dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial facilities scattered across North America, Australasia, and Europe are striving to wrest share from Chinese firms, which control roughly 90 percent of the markets for rare-earth oxides and rare-earth metals. Rare earths are the ingredients on which vast and crucial...

The Conversation - 1 day 3 hours ago
Optogenetics, a field that started with an algae gene, is shedding light on new treatments for eye and neuropsychiatric conditions.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
Scientist have projected for years that climate change would lead to fewer Santa Anas by the end of the century. A new UCLA paper shows it's already happening.

Wired - 1 day 6 hours ago
Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon's surface.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 8 hours ago
With wings about the size of a dinner plate, Tropical North Queensland s Hercules moth is one of the largest moths in the world. The post ‘The Hercules moth sure lives up to its name’ appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Newser - 1 day 8 hours ago
Scientists may have found a possible lifeline for dying coral: In a lab, sick coral made an unexpectedly fast comeback with help from a healthier neighbor. Stanford researchers report that when heat-bleached coral fragments physically touched genetically identical, healthy ones for five days to a week, algae from the healthy...

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
The discovery of an unusual stone in an Egyptian yard led archaeologists to two colossal royal statues, believed to depict the pharaoh Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great. A homeowner in Behebat al-Hijara village in the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt's Nile Delta first alerted archaeologists to a stone...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 20 hours ago
Science Translational Medicine has issued an expression of concern over "a series" of data concerns in a paper lauded by MD Anderson Cancer Center last year for identifying "a new driver" of bone metastasis. The article, published in May 2025, has been the subject of a long and growing thread on PubPeer since April, where … Continue reading Paper touted by MD Anderson gets expression of concern for data concerns'...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 21 hours ago
Science Translational Medicine has retracted a paper on COVID-19 vaccines after an institutional investigation revealed a former Ph.D. student fabricated data and falsified images in the article. The retraction is the former student's second for fabrication this year. The July 2022 article looked at whether a vaccine targeting a particular part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus … Continue reading Former Crick Ph.D. student loses COVID vaccine paper for fabrication...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 21 hours ago
Selecting the right pair of hiking boots for the job at hand and your feet will help make your next outdoor adventure a comfortable and successful one. The post Boots 'n' all: A guide to hiking boots appeared first on Australian Geographic .

New York Times - 1 day 22 hours ago
The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of the city's electrical systems. Experts linked the unanticipated damage to what they came to call the electromagnetic pulse.

The Atlantic - 1 day 22 hours ago
They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.

Wired - 2 days 1 hour ago
Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Ni o is here to make matters even worse.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 3 hours ago
The latest front in the ongoing global transformer shortage may be a disagreement over steel. To be precise, that steel is a specialty called grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES). It's a key ingredient in the majority of the world's transformers and in Europe, it's now a trade flashpoint. Last month, the European Commission, the European Union's main executive branch, significantly raised the cost of importing GOES from outside the EU. While EU steelmakers believe the measures...

Mother Jones - 2 days 4 hours ago
Last week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an audience of oil and gas executives at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association's annual meeting in Santa Fe. The environmental agency was "within days," he told them, of releasing the draft reconsideration of […]...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 7 hours ago
I recently came across this bucket at one of our local coffee shops a common drop and collection point for free goods, from books and magazines to excess zucchinis and figs. The bucket and its sign reminded me how much I like this dusty little town and its inhabitants, human and wild. So I called […] The post A Village to Feed a Fawn appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .