Category: 7. Science

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the United States.

In a paper…

The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars near the core of our Milky Way Galaxy.

It’s no secret that prolonged periods spent in microgravity takes a toll on the human body. This includes muscle atrophy, bone density loss, and changes to the cardiovascular, endocrine, and nervous systems. But for female astronauts,…

Jupiter’s moons can have surprising effects on the world’s displays of auroral lights by “stomping down” on the planet’s gigantic magnetic environment.

These surprising effects, detected in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (

A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday.

The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the…

Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet’s many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.

Mars is a regular source of interesting new photos. From detailed shots of the planet captured from orbit to

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) has barely begun observations and is already wowing us. Images like its Cosmic Treasure Chest have us anticipating even more cosmic glory. And when the observatory sent out 800,000 alerts in one night in…

Dating app burnout hits when every profile looks identical—and new research proves your exhaustion is justified. Scientists analyzed 1,000 real Tinder profiles from Barcelona and discovered that users fall into just nine predictable visual…