Category: 7. Science

Looking at an X-ray image of a galaxy cluster is like watching fireworks frozen in time. You see swirls and arcs, bubbles and filaments, structures that hint at past violence but don’t explain what actually happened. Astronomers have…

Two flagship spacecraft captured striking new images of Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including a surprisingly sharp snapshot from a camera never meant for scientific imaging.

Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile,

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• Researchers affiliated with Aegiq report coordinated advances that aim to remove three core barriers to large-scale photonic quantum computing: probabilistic entanglement, exponential software compilation and low…

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 to 5 meters, or 13 to 16 feet.

The WAIS abuts the Ross Ice Shelf, the world’s largest floating ice mass, which…

Seventy million years ago, a crocodile relative almost as long as a compact car stalked dinosaurs in southern Argentina. Now, scientists have uncovered its fossilized bones, showing that this meat-eater was one of the top predators in its ancient…

A new species of pumpkin toadlet, almost the size of a pencil tip, has been discovered within the damp, shadowy leaf litter of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. 

The dazzlingly bright orange creature has been named Brachycephalus lulai in honor of…

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A photographer has captured not one but two rare forms of lightning, which he compares to the famous scene from Independence Day when the alien mothership destroys the…

A colossal dinosaur fossil discovered in southern China is shaking up what paleontologists thought they knew about dinosaur size and evolution. Named Tongnanlong zhimingi, the newly described species may have stretched up to 92 feet (28 meters)…