Mars Is Covered in Toxic Dust – And It’s a Serious Threat to Human Exploration
Mars might be a thrilling destination, but its dust could be deadly. A team of scientists warns that long-term exposure to ...
Earth’s First Crust Was Continental – Long Before Plate Tectonics Began
New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...
Real-Life Monster: Scientists Discover Strange Wasp From 99 Million Years Ago
A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...
From Fruit Punch to Brain Damage: The Party Gas That’s Killing Americans
Deaths from laughing gas misuse are skyrocketing, despite growing warnings from health officials. Researchers are uncovering ...
Cracking the Devil’s Staircase: How a Time Crystal Danced Through Chaos
A team of physicists has made groundbreaking observations in a semiconductor-based time crystal by periodically driving it ...
A Galaxy Died Just 700 Million Years After the Big Bang – And Science Can’t Explain Why
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had already stopped forming stars just 700 million years after the Big Bang.
Highly Invasive Deadly Pufferfish Found in Northern Mediterranean Waters, Raising Alarm
The silver-cheeked toadfish is spreading north in the Mediterranean, threatening biodiversity Researchers have recorded the ...
Alien Chemistry Underground: Caves Offer Clues to Life on Jupiter’s Moons
Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...
Booze vs. Brain: The Lasting Damage You Can’t Just Sleep Off
Heavy alcohol use can cause lasting damage to brain circuits that control decision-making, as shown in a new study using rats ...
Alive, Dead, and Hot: Schrödinger’s Cat Defies the Rules of Quantum Physics
Researchers have pulled off a quantum feat that defies traditional expectations—they’ve created Schrödinger cat states not ...
5,700 Years of Storms Reveal a Brewing Caribbean Crisis
A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm ...
Korean Scientists Develop World’s Most Efficient Hydrogen Catalyst Using 1/3 the Precious Metal
Designed a "core-shell structure catalyst" using cost-effective ruthenium to improve its potential for commercialization.