Category: Science

Extreme weather events have caused devastation in a number of U.S. regions this year. Here are some of the most harrowing photos of that damage.

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant “odd radio circle” ever detected.

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a huge weak spot in the geomagnetic field off South America, has expanded and sprouted a lobe in the direction of

By weaving Kevlar or polyethylene nanofibers into standard neoprene in wetsuits, researchers found ways to limit injury during rare encounters with sharks.

Being able to store hydrogen at 194 °F could dramatically change its use as an energy source.

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part

This spooky skeleton was likely made to remind Roman banqueters that life is short.

In the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia, jagged landforms reach like fingers into the turquoise-blue ocean waters. Along the coastline north of Derby

In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the University of California, Berkeley, George Dantzig — a first-year graduate student — copied two

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. (Image credit: Eric Gay)

The pachycephalosaurs were a unique group of dinosaurs with domed heads. But scientists haven’t known much about them because their fossils have been so incomplete.

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, shedding light on a decades-old

Chunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December.

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the space rock