Category: Science

Earth doesn’t rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be about a millisecond short of a typical 24-hour day.

Earlier this year, the White House proposed a nearly 24% cut to NASA’s 2026 fiscal year budget — the largest in the agency’s history. The

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth’s surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these swamps has switched to

A new test called PAC-MANN is designed to detect signs of pancreatic cancer in blood. It’s still in development, but the hope is that it

There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn’s shadow and turned to image the planet, seven

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy glaciers have gained ice in

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star, thanks

Thousands of pieces of leather discovered in an Oslo harbor are giving archaeologists insight into everyday life in medieval Norway.

Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do

Exposure to air pollution may trigger DNA mutations that cause lung cancer in nonsmokers.

Marked swelling in a man’s finger and big toe was a symptom of late-stage cancer.