
Wired - 16 hours 11 min 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 - 18 hours 8 min 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 - 18 hours 26 min 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 - 19 hours 3 min 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...

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
Major preprint platform tightens its rules to curb a surge of submissions, including those generated by artificial-intelligence tools.

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
An expert panel debates the impact of artificial intelligence on doctoral programmes.

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
Programmer whose forward-thinking and reliable code helped to save the Apollo 11 mission.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 6 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 7 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 7 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 8 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 8 hours ago
They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.

Newser - 1 day 10 hours ago
A patch of seafloor off Turkey's Mediterranean coast has yielded what archaeologists say is the oldest shipwreck ever found. Dated to roughly 4,400 to 4,700 years ago around the era the Great Pyramid was going up in Egypt the 33-foot-long trade vessel lies nearly 100 feet under the...

Wired - 1 day 11 hours 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.

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
In communities across America, people recovering from floods, storms and wildfires have been left waiting much longer for federal aid if it arrives at all.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 13 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 - 1 day 13 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 […]...

Wired - 1 day 14 hours ago
A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 17 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 .