11:30 AMThese Are the Degrees of the FutureGizmodo and Statista identified 25 fields of study that most reflect the technologies, cultural shifts, and…
8/10/22Huge Deep Sea Bug—Er, Isopod—Discovered in Gulf of MexicoThe newly described species can grow to one and a half feet long.
8/10/22New Digging at Pompeii Reveals How the Middle Class Lived in 79 ADThe House of the Lararium contains preserved fabrics, tableware, and other objects of daily life.
8/6/22Are the Colors in Webb Telescope Images 'Fake'?Humans can't see infrared light, so what makes Webb Space Telescope images so dazzling?
8/3/22Bones of Mammoths Seemingly Butchered by Humans Found in New MexicoA pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.
8/2/22Planned Giant Telescope Gets a Huge Influx of CashThe Giant Magellan Telescope will have four times the spatial resolution of the Webb telescope when it is finally…
8/1/22Physicists Discover Oldest Dark Matter Yet With Lensed MicrowavesLensing of the cosmic microwave background indicates 12-billion-year-old galaxies had dark matter.
8/1/22This Weird Panda Once Roamed Europe, Paleontologists SayUnlike its living cousin, Agriarctos nikolovi probably didn’t eat bamboo.
7/29/22375-Year-Old Shipwreck Found at Bottom of German RiverThe Hanseatic wreck contains 150 barrels of quicklime, a common building material at the time.
7/21/22Mars Express Orbiter Sees a Massive Canyon SystemThe canyon system, much larger than Earth's Grand Canyon, probably formed from the drifting of tectonic plates.
7/19/22Physicists Devised a Way to See Elusive ‘Unruh Effect’ in the LabA predicted cousin of Hawking radiation may be coming to a tabletop near you.
7/18/22Space Pebble That Hit Webb Telescope Caused Significant Damage, Scientists SayThe telescope is likely to deal with plenty more space debris during its tenure.
7/15/22See Jupiter Through the Eyes of Webb TelescopeShots of the gas giant and its moons helped test the new spacecraft’s instruments.
7/14/22Weirdly Slow Radio Burst in Space Is 'Like a Heartbeat'Researchers think it came from an especially intense pulsar or magnetar.
7/12/22Now playing First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeNASA has released stunning debut photos from the new orbital observatory.
7/12/22We Now Know the Exact Crater That Spat Out a Famous Martian MeteoriteBlack Beauty was found in 2011, but its true origin was a mystery until now.
7/12/22See the First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeHere's the first batch of images from the advanced telescope, featuring an exoplanet, nebulae, and more.
7/11/22Gaze Into the Deepest View Yet of Our Universe: Webb's First Full-Color Image Is HereThe long-awaited image is a luminous look at ancient galaxies magnified by warped spacetime.
7/11/22Biden to Reveal Webb Telescope’s First Full-Color Image TodayNASA will release the rest of this first batch of images tomorrow morning.
7/8/22Building Blocks of RNA Spotted at the Center of the Milky WayThe finding could add credence to the 'RNA world' hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth.