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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

Scientists have long debated whether Earth's water came from comets or asteroids, but recent evidence suggests the…

CRISPR Tech Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including "Undruggable" Cancers

Watch: Four UFO videos newly declassified by US government

The eyewitness footage shows bright orbs in the sky over an undisclosed location in the northeastern US.

European sunscreens are safer than American

European sunscreens offer better protection than American ones because they're regulated as cosmetics rather than drugs,…

Maxproof

MaxProof, a new framework for mathematical proof generation, achieves human gold-medal performance on the IMO 2025…

Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

"If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"

First working nuclear clock heralds a new era in timekeeping

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could…

Report on an Unidentified Space Station

An expedition makes an emergency landing on an unidentified, seemingly abandoned space station designed to accommodate…

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

The article explores how biological evolution acquires information efficiently by using modularity—similar to how…

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water from Thin Air

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from humid…

Global map reveals the vast scale of underground fungal networks

Our soils are teeming with networks of fungi, and we're starting to understand how important they are

Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap shut?

It was widely thought that the movement of water through Venus flytrap cells caused the trap to close, but detailed…

‘Forgotten’ pollutants cause 15 per cent of global warming

So-called indirect greenhouse gases, including carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds, aren’t covered by climate…

El Niño has started and the weather could get weird

Global weather agencies have declared that El Niño has begun, and models show it is more likely than not to be a "super"…

After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II

"Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."

Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?

Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.

Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe

Astronomers have discovered powerful winds driven by galactic collisions and supernovae that rapidly expel the gas…

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Solar power supplied more U.S.

Toy universe shows that time could be a quantum illusion

An experiment with a toy universe made up of extremely cold atoms shows how time can emerge from quantum interactions,…

Why Thermodynamics Rules Future Orbital Data Centers

# Summary Orbital data centers, despite growing industry interest from companies like SpaceX, Google, and Starcloud,…

El Niño under way and threatens weather extremes, scientists say

An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.

Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.

Dramatic photo of ibis being guided to their winter homes wins award

Student Gunnar Hartmann wins Nature’s 2026 Scientist at Work photography competition for this shot of migrating northern…

Vaping after quitting smoking is linked to lung cancer

A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying from lung cancer…

Ditching cigarettes for vapes may curb the cancer benefits of quitting

A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying from lung cancer…

200,000 Human Neurons Learned to Play Doom, Pointing to Low-Power Biological Computing

Cortical Labs connected 200,000 human neurons grown from blood-derived stem cells to its CL1 silicon interface, teaching…

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says

Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.