Category: 7. Science

3I/ATLAS has generated much buzz and traffic on X/Twitter, among other social media platforms. However, it has also been a breeding ground for engagement farmers sharing AI-manipulated media, thereby toying with the fancies of lay, who…

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the…

The zombie apocalypse storyline of the popular video game and TV series The Last of Us…

Scientists have long struggled to explain why Venus’s atmosphere moves so quickly, with winds racing around the planet far faster than its own rotation.

Now, new research suggests that a daily thermal tide created by solar heating is the main…

Around 115 million years ago, the waters off northern Australia were home to a giant shark that totally flips what we thought we knew about ancient ocean predators. Recent fossil discoveries show that sharks reached enormous sizes much…

In 2021, a swarm of small earthquakes rippled beneath Yellowstone National Park and jolted a hidden ecosystem nearly 325 feet below the surface. Microbes living in a buried pocket of groundwater suddenly got a burst of energy.

A new study of…

Scientists may have just taken a major step toward reversing Alzheimer’s disease, at least in mice. A new study led by researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and West China Hospital Sichuan University describes a…