Massive undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water

Blast from Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January could eat away at ozone layer, warm…

Predicting Earthquakes Two Days Earlier

Israeli researchers turned to the skies to predict earthquakes two days earlier, with 80 percent accuracy.…

Study draws new link between dopamine-based reward learning and machine learning

Past neuroscience and psychology research has repeatedly demonstrated the crucial role of rewards in how humans…

Physics Mystery Solved: Findings Could “Revolutionize” Our Understanding of Distance

A physics puzzle is resolved through a new duality. According to traditional thinking, distorting a flat…

Dietary Supplement Cuts Risk of Hereditary Cancer by 60%, Scientists Find

A trial spanning more than 20 years and almost 1,000 participants worldwide has found an important…

These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage

Scientists are developing vaccines to target the virus family that spawned Covid-19. Their efforts could thwart…

New Number Systems Point Geometry Problem Toward a Real Solution | Quanta Magazine

The Kakeya conjecture predicts how much room you need to point a line in every direction.…

Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found

UK experts believe they can now explain the recent spate of mysterious liver problems in young…

A Painful Deadline Nears as Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low

The federal government has told states to agree on urgent water cuts to ensure dams can…

James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning ‘Phantom Galaxy’ picture looks like a wormhole

The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space…

James Webb telescope is so powerful, it detected water on a distant exoplanet

NASA’s James Webb space telescope is so powerful it can even detect water and other substances…

Black holes may die differently than we thought

New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…

Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year ‘Heartbeat’, But We Have No Idea What Causes It

In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and…

“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact

Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…

We Finally Have a Genetic Link Between Ovarian Cancer And This Common Disorder

Scientists have found a genetic link and a potentially causal relationship between endometriosis and some types…

Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild

It takes only a second to crack the handful of weak keys. Are there more out…

A Dead Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon, and Scientists Are Thrilled

The impact likely obliterated the chunk of space junk in a white hot explosion. Read more…

How artificial intelligence can help us figure out how life began

How inanimate molecules first arranged themselves into life is one of the great mysteries. The answer…

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures…

Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place

A single dot means we’re nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. Read more at Ars Technica…