SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy...

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. A bulk container installed in...

Mount Etna in Sicily is the world’s most active stratovolcano, which is a high, conical volcano created by repeated...

On Mars, it’s the little things that hint at past life. In 2025, tiny details in rocks across the...

Fully practical quantum computers haven’t arrived yet, but the quantum computing industry is ending the year on an optimistic...

This year, scientists observed an eerie glow emanating from mice that disappears after death, reminiscent of paranormal ideas of...

If there’s ever a creature you would not want to bump heads with, it is Zavacephale rinpoche. This dome-headed...

At the beginning of 2025, a preprint of a paper about a new microscope caused an awful lot of...

Spotify playlists are a surprisingly big part of my life. I make a handful of new, curated, choreographed ones for the spin classes...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged the largest and most chaotic site of planetary birth humanity has ever seen.Appearing like a stunning cosmic bat, this protoplanetary disk, located around 1,000 light-years away, stretches out for around 400...