Researchers are working on manipulating wax worms’ digestive systems to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic.

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking.

“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world.

The workhorse rocket has continued its streak of success.

Viewers in Africa, Asia, and Australia will be able to see the blood moon in the sky—but those in the Americas will have to settle for a live feed this time around.

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.

The exodus has set off alarms among staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets.”

After being postponed twice—and after multiple failed attempts—Starship’s 10th test flight was a success.

NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.

The scavengers are tricky, the smells are gross, and your colleagues are corpses. But some people—mostly women!—love this job.

The tool models the sun using AI, and its developers say it can anticipate solar flares 16 percent more accurately and in half the time of current prediction systems.

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds.

This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence.

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

China has rolled out a chatbot on its Tiangong space station. Its mission: to improve safety, navigation, and coordination in orbit.

Visitors have unearthed more than 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972.

Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility.

Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

Two years ago, Earth was hit by the most energetic neutrino in history. Scientists thought it might be a measurement error, but a new study has confirmed this “ghost particle” was real.