Category: Science

The first day of spring 2026 in the Northern Hemisphere arrives with the equinox on March 20. Here’s when and why the seasons change.

Save a huge $200 on the high-end Garmin Forerunner 965 at Walmart and Amazon ahead of the seasonal spring sales.

NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is falling to Earth much sooner than expected, though the spacecraft’s reentry poses a low risk to humans.

This impact crater, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015, appeared relatively recent as it has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta.

“Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.

In people destined to get Alzheimer’s in their mid-40s, one protein can delay the onset of the disease by about 20 years.

A German town has been peppered by meteorites after a stunning “fireball” exploded in the skies over central Europe. One extraterrestrial fragment landed in a

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder. (Image credit:

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island shows how he used his wealth

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant “Y” in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy “red-white mountain” meet.

A new paper makes the strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics.

The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that’s central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to “remember” how to trigger subsequent seizures more