NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Releases Its First Images on Mission to Map Millions of GalaxiesThe first images captured by NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope showed tens of thousands of stars and galaxies.
The Search for One of North America’s Rarest BirdsScientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the breeding grounds of McKay’s Buntings.
Meet Pennsylvania’s Apple-Snatching ‘Little Bigfoot’The Albatwitch will steal your fruit, then scurry back into the trees.
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the AbyssThey’re quite literally under a lot of pressure
A Real Yellowstone Rancher Shares Her StoryRaising livestock in grizzly and wolf country isn’t easy. Here’s how to do it with respect and grace.
Supersymmetry Was the Next Big Thing in Particle Physics. What Happened?Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every known elementary particle has a heavier “superpartner” particle, has been the superstar of theoretical physics for the past half century.
How to use caffeine to boost alertness, according to scienceWe’ve built a complex culture around caffeine. Not only do we have a variety of caffeinated products such as coffee, tea, sodas, energy drinks and pills, but we also have a lot of advice, especially on social media, on how to use caffeine to best effect.
Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claimElectricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field — according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists today. The findings are controversial but intriguing, researchers told Nature.
Conscious ‘Alien Minds’ Could Be Living Among Us—And We Don’t Even Know It, Scientist SaysWhat is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to corvids.
A Balance of Gut Bacteria Could Play a Crucial Role in How MS DevelopsMultiple sclerosis is a disease that results when the immune system mistakenly attacks the brain and spinal cord. It affects nearly one million people in the US and over 2.8 million worldwide.
Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cellsOn a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells sat inside a box on a table in Brunswick.
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cellsA paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a first-of-its-kind trial that used reprogrammed stem cells to treat people who are fully paralysed.
3 Skills To Generate $5,000+/Month In Passive Income In 2025Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers freelancing, AI, and remote work.
'Let's just study males and keep it simple': How excluding female animals from research held neuroscience back, and could do so againActions taken by the Trump administration have spurred changes at America's major science agencies — and if worst comes to worst, these shifts may jeopardize our understanding of how the brain works and how to treat neurological conditions, experts told Live Science.
The Bird-Flu Tipping PointIf and when it happens, we might not know until it’s too late. Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it.