Category: Science

The sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered unusual “float” rocks on the rim of Jezero Crater while searching for signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome, would be worth the cost. (Image credit: Mark

Thirty artists release songs with nature sounds to generate royalties for nature conservation in second annual United Nations Earth Day mixtape. (Image credit: Poyenchen, Andrew

Welcome!! This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. This month, we

“The 2010 cold snap may have created a subset of pythons better able to survive cold temperatures — and thus better adapted to spread beyond

A new benchmark performed on chips from five different vendors has indicated how we can measure QPU performance as quantum computers become more advanced and

This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of simultaneously erupting volcanoes in

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the point of Earth’s

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb

Biofilms lead lives of liminality. Just a few cells thick, these layered communities of microbes anchor themselves to solid surfaces at interfaces — where rocks

A new study finds that fragments of tumor DNA in a patient’s bloodstream could show that they are at high risk of a melanoma recurrence.