NASA Is Inviting Creatives to Tell the Stories Behind Exploration
NASA is asking filmmakers, songwriters, poets and other storytellers to help share mission stories with the public.…
May 25, 2026
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Webb’s Star-Cluster Study Shows How Galaxies Grow Their Nurseries
NASA shared Webb observations of Messier 51 as part of a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters in nearby galaxies.…
May 24, 2026Hubble’s New Galaxy-Cluster Image Shows How Old Data Can Keep Making Discoveries
NASA’s Hubble team shared a fresh view of galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905, adding another useful image to a deep public archive.…
May 23, 2026Tiny CubeSats Could Hitch a Ride on Future Artemis Moon Missions
NASA is asking teams about CubeSats that could fly on future Artemis missions, opening small doors for big science.…
May 22, 2026
NASA Mission Shows Earth’s Weather Can Ripple All the Way to Space
NASA’s AWE mission has finished collecting data after mapping atmospheric waves from the International Space Station.…
May 22, 2026NASA Is Turning Public and Industry Feedback Into a Space Technology Roadmap
NASA's 2026 technology-priority list folds in hundreds of stakeholder responses to guide future Moon, Mars and space-infrastructure work.…
May 20, 2026NASA Is Inviting Volunteers to Help Decode the Solar Wind
NASA's new Shock Detectives citizen-science project lets volunteers help sort MMS mission data and improve understanding of how solar wind energy reac…
May 20, 2026
240-Million-Year-Old Giant 'Sand Creeper' Fossil Found Hidden in Australian Garden Wall
A retired chicken farmer unknowingly built one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric discoveries into his garden wall. Scientists have now identi…
May 6, 2026
Scientists Connect a 'Time Crystal' to a Real Device for the First Time in Quantum Breakthrough
A strange form of matter that 'ticks' forever without energy input has just taken a major leap toward practical use — scientists at Aalto University h…
May 6, 2026
Breakthrough Biomaterial Heals Damaged Tissue From the Inside Out — Just By Injecting It Into the Bloodstream
Scientists at UC San Diego have created an injectable biomaterial that travels through the bloodstream to find and repair damaged tissue, reducing inf…
May 6, 2026
Scientists Say Travel Could Actually Slow the Aging Process — Here's Why
Researchers at Edith Cowan University applied the physics concept of entropy to tourism and found that positive travel experiences may help the body s…
May 5, 2026
'Oscars of Science' Honour Gene Therapy Pioneers Who Cured Inherited Blindness and Sickle Cell Disease
The 2026 Breakthrough Prizes — worth $3 million each — have been awarded to scientists whose gene therapy breakthroughs are curing inherited blindness…
May 5, 2026
Ancient 'Miracle Tree' Can Remove 98% of Microplastics From Drinking Water, Study Finds
Seeds from the Moringa tree can remove over 98 percent of harmful microplastics from drinking water, performing as well as or better than chemical tre…
May 5, 2026Hubble Accidentally Caught a Comet Breaking Apart in Real Time — and the Footage Is Extraordinary
In a once-in-a-generation lucky accident, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope happened to be pointed at Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just as it began disintegrat…
March 22, 2026Scientists Found a Hidden 48-Dimensional Universe Inside Entangled Light — With 17,000 Distinct Patterns
Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand and Huzhou University have discovered 48-dimensional topological structures hidden within entangl…
March 22, 2026South Korea Just Named a New Dinosaur After a Beloved Cartoon Character — and It May Have Been Fuzzy
Palaeontologists from UT Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center have named a new dinosaur species Doolysaurus huhmini after Dooly the Little D…
March 21, 2026First New Bird Species Discovered in Japan Since 1981 — Hidden in Plain Sight on Remote Islands for 3 Million Years
Researchers from Uppsala University and international collaborators have identified the Tokara Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tokaraensis) as a species di…
March 21, 2026Scientists Turned CO₂ Into Methanol Using a Single Atom. It Works 70% Better.
ETH Zurich researchers have built the world's most efficient CO₂-to-methanol catalyst using individual indium atoms — each one doing the job a whole c…
March 21, 2026
CERN Just Discovered a New Particle — The 80th Hadron Found at the Large Hadron Collider
The LHCb experiment at CERN has confirmed the discovery of a new proton-like particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark, named Ξcc⁺ (Xi-cc-p…
March 21, 2026
Scientists Engineered Probiotic Bacteria to Seek Out Tumours and Release Cancer Drugs Directly Inside Them
In a striking proof-of-concept published in PLOS Biology, scientists at Shandong University engineered a harmless strain of gut bacteria — Escherichia…
March 21, 2026
Australian Scientists Just Built the World's First Quantum Battery — And It Charges Faster the Bigger It Gets
CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have demonstrated the world's first proof-of-concept quantum battery capable of a full charge-…
March 21, 2026
Panasonic Just Achieved 34.5% Solar Efficiency — Leaping Past the Theoretical Silicon Ceiling
In March 2026, Panasonic announced a 34.5% power conversion efficiency for its perovskite-silicon tandem solar panels — a landmark that breezes past t…
March 20, 2026
A Wildflower on the Brink of Extinction Evolved to Survive — And Scientists Just Watched It Happen
The scarlet monkeyflower faced an extinction-level drought in California. Instead of dying out, populations of the flower rapidly evolved new genetic …
March 20, 2026
Scientists Just Solved a Mystery That Has Stumped Physicists for Centuries: Why Does Static Electricity Build Up?
New research published in March 2026 has finally explained one of the most confusing phenomena in everyday physics: how two objects made of the same m…
March 20, 2026
Scientists Exploring the Deep South Atlantic Found 28 Possible New Species in a Single Expedition
Marine biologists exploring an uncharted seamount off Argentina have returned with specimens of 28 possible new species — including strange sea snails…
March 20, 2026Scientists Just Shrunk an AI Brain to 1/6000th Its Original Size — Small Enough to Email
Cold Spring Harbor researchers used data from monkey neurons to compress a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables. The resu…
March 3, 2026British Firm Just Solved Fusion Energy's Biggest Fuel Problem
First Light Fusion has validated a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 for its FLARE power plant concept — the highest ever announced for any fusion system.…
March 2, 2026UK Fusion Startup Just Solved One of the Hardest Problems Blocking Clean Energy
British company First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design can breed its own fuel — tritium — at a ratio of 1.8, the highest ever …
March 1, 2026Scientists Just Turned Methane Into Medicine — Literally
For the first time, researchers in Spain have converted methane directly into a complex pharmaceutical compound, using a custom iron catalyst. The bre…
February 27, 2026Dallas Company Cracks 3-Minute Full Battery Charge — And It Actually Works
OMI has developed a cathode material that charges batteries from zero to full in approximately three minutes, validated across thousands of cycles. No…
February 28, 2026UK Fusion Startup Validates Reactor Design That Produces Nearly Twice the Fuel It Needs
Oxford-based First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design achieves a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 — meaning it produces nearly twic…
February 28, 2026Scientists Turn Milk Into Biodegradable Plastic That Vanishes in Soil Within Weeks
Researchers at Flinders University have created a packaging film from milk protein that safely degrades in soil in just 13 weeks — offering a genuine …
February 28, 202618-Year-Old Becomes First Person Ever Cured of Rare Immune Disease Through Gene Editing
Ty Sperle, a university student from British Columbia, has been cured of chronic granulomatous disease using a groundbreaking gene editing treatment —…
February 28, 2026Scientists Turn Methane Into Medicine in Stunning Chemistry Breakthrough
A Spanish research team has developed a way to transform methane — the main component of natural gas — into pharmaceutical building blocks, synthesisi…
February 28, 2026US Scientists Achieve Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough — Scalable Ion Traps Are Now Possible
Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have successfully trapped and manipulated ions using cryogenic electronics, clearing a critical hur…
February 28, 2026Stanford Scientists Reverse Type 1 Diabetes in Mice — Without Insulin or Immune Suppression
Stanford Medicine researchers have cured Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined transplant of blood stem cells and insulin-producing islet cells — n…
February 27, 2026World Record Smashed: New Solar Cell Made From Abundant, Non-Toxic Materials Hits 15.45% Efficiency
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers have shattered the world record for kesterite solar cells — made from cheap, abundant copper, zinc, tin, and s…
February 27, 2026DNA-Inspired 'Sun Battery' Stores Solar Energy in Chemical Bonds — With Double the Power of Lithium-Ion
UC Santa Barbara chemists created a lightweight molecule that captures sunlight, locks it into strained chemical bonds, and releases it as heat on dem…
February 24, 2026Sunlight-Powered Catalyst Turns Plastic Waste Into Vinegar — Using Just Iron and Sunshine
University of Waterloo researchers created a bio-inspired iron catalyst that uses sunlight to convert common plastics — including PVC, PP, PE and PET …
February 24, 2026Desert Sand Transformed Into Fertile Soil in Just 10 Months Using Ancient Microbes
Chinese scientists used lab-grown cyanobacteria — 3.5-billion-year-old microorganisms — to convert barren desert sand near the Taklamakan Desert into …
February 22, 2026Gene Therapy 'Rewinds' Brain Cells to Youth — Restoring Lost Memories in Aging Mice
EPFL scientists used a three-gene cocktail to reset the molecular clock of specific memory-storing neurons, successfully restoring both recent and lon…
February 15, 2026Scientists Watch Alzheimer's Protein Clumping Being Reversed in Real Time — A First
Oregon State University researchers have developed a method to observe and reverse the metal-driven protein clumping linked to Alzheimer's disease in …
February 24, 2026New Solar Cell Achieves 47% Efficiency, Shattering World Record
Scientists at MIT have developed a solar cell that converts nearly half of all sunlight into electricity, potentially making solar energy cheaper than…
February 7, 202617-Year-Old Invents Water Filter That Removes 99.9% of Microplastics
A high school student from Mumbai has invented an affordable water filter using banana peels that removes virtually all microplastics from drinking wa…
February 1, 2026CRISPR Breakthrough Forces Bacteria to 'Unlearn' Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists have developed a new CRISPR system that reverses antibiotic resistance in superbugs, forcing them to become vulnerable to medication again.…
February 18, 2026Lab-Grown Human Spinal Cord Heals Itself After Injury — 'Dancing Molecules' Spark Nerve Regrowth
Scientists at Northwestern University have achieved a staggering first: using miniature lab-grown human spinal cord organoids, they replicated the ful…
February 21, 2026Scientists Finally Crack the Lithium 'Dream Battery' — Solving a Decades-Old Problem That Blocked Next-Gen EVs
Korean researchers developed an 'intelligent protective layer' using thiophene molecules that dynamically guides lithium ions, preventing the dangerou…
February 25, 2026New Device Turns Plastic Waste Into Ethylene With 60% Less Energy — Slashing One of Industry's Biggest Carbon Footprints
Northwestern University engineers have built an electrolyzer that converts waste-derived syngas into ethylene using renewable electricity — 60% more e…
February 26, 2026Quantum Internet Breakthrough: NYC Fibre Network Achieves Record Entanglement Swapping
Qunnect and Cisco have demonstrated the first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over commercial fibre in New York City — achieving rates nearl…
February 28, 2026Boiling Oceans Under Ice: New Study Reveals Icy Moons Could Be More Habitable Than We Thought
A new Nature Astronomy study reveals that hidden liquid oceans beneath the icy crust of Saturn's and Jupiter's moons may be actively boiling due to ti…
March 2, 2026Scientists Made a Battery From Tofu Brine That Lasts 120,000 Recharge Cycles
Chinese scientists have built an eco-friendly, non-toxic battery using organic electrodes and an electrolyte as safe as tofu brine. It lasts 120,000 r…
March 2, 2026A New Solar Cell Trick Just Hit 23% Efficiency — And It Could Make Clean Energy Cheaper at Scale
Scientists in China have cracked a stubborn problem inside solar cells using a 'crystal seeding' technique. The result: inverted perovskite solar cell…
March 3, 2026Scientists Discover a New Species of Giant Dinosaur — Its Skull Had a Massive Horn
For the first time in over 100 years, paleontologists have identified a brand-new Spinosaurus species. Spinosaurus mirabilis roamed a marshy Sahara 95…
March 3, 2026Scientists Just Found a Quantum Qubit Inside Silicon — Using the Same Material as Every Computer Chip
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified a new type of qubit — the CN center — that lives inside ordinary silicon. It's hydrogen-free, telecom-…
March 3, 2026Scientists Shrank an AI Brain to the Size of an Email — Using Monkey Neurons as a Blueprint
Researchers have compressed a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables — small enough to send in a tweet — by reverse-enginee…
March 3, 2026
Scientists Have Flipped a Magnet With Light for the First Time — Opening the Door to Light-Controlled Electronics
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel have achieved a breakthrough in spintronics: using a laser beam to flip the polarity of a specia…
March 9, 2026Scientists Engineered Bacteria to Turn Plastic Bottles Into a Parkinson's Disease Drug
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to convert PET plastic — the material in drinks bottles — into…
March 20, 2026
Astronomers Confirm a Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 10.7 Light-Years Away
GJ 887 d, a super-Earth at least 6 times Earth's mass, has been confirmed orbiting within the habitable zone of the star GJ 887 — making it the second…
March 20, 2026
Scientists Are Saving the World's Bananas From Extinction — and the First Disease-Proof Trees Go in the Ground in 2027
UK biotech company Tropic has raised $105 million to deploy the first commercial gene-edited Cavendish bananas resistant to the TR4 fungus that threat…
March 21, 2026Scientists Just Discovered a Hidden 48-Dimensional World Inside Entangled Light — Opening a New Alphabet for Quantum Computing
Researchers have uncovered extraordinarily complex topological structures hidden within entangled light beams — structures existing in 48 dimensions. …
March 21, 2026
The World Register of Marine Species Just Named Its Ten Most Remarkable New Animals of 2025 — Including a Darth Vader Isopod
The World Register of Marine Species has published its annual Top 10 list of newly described marine creatures from 2025, featuring a giant deep-sea cr…
March 21, 2026Physicists Have Found Evidence of a 'Holy Grail' Quantum Material That Transmits Electricity AND Spin With Zero Energy Loss
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have presented compelling evidence that an alloy of niobium and rhenium (NbRe) is a …
March 22, 2026Webb Telescope Finds an 'Impossible' Atmosphere Around a Scorching Lava World — Strongest Evidence Yet for Rocky Exoplanet Air
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet. TOI-561b — a scorching super…
March 22, 2026Bull Sharks Have 'Friends' — Six Years of Underwater Research Just Proved It
A six-year study of 184 bull sharks in Fiji has revealed that the famously solitary species actually forms stable social bonds and has preferred compa…
March 22, 2026Scientists Develop Acid-Free Method to Recover 98% of Silver from Old Solar Panels
A research team in Australia has created a mechanical process to extract almost all the silver from end-of-life solar panels in minutes without using …
April 7, 2026Melbourne Breakthrough: New Ovarian Cancer Therapy Achieves 95% Remission Rate
A 'genetic blueprint' approach developed at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has shown a reported 95% long-term remission rate in early-stage…
April 8, 2026Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Method to Reduce Plastic Waste and Create Valuable Chemicals
A promising new approach uses photocatalysis to break down plastic pollution while simultaneously creating a useful, value-added chemical product—a pr…
April 8, 2026NASA’s Artemis II Crew Marks Historic Crewed Lunar Flyby Milestone
NASA says Artemis II completed a crucial crewed lunar flyby phase, a major step toward future Moon landings.…
April 9, 2026Artemis II Returns Home After Historic Crewed Lunar Loop
NASA says Artemis II has successfully completed its around-the-Moon mission, marking humanity’s first crewed deep-space return since Apollo.…
April 9, 2026