Science News from research organizations Date: September 2, 2025 Source: NASA Summary: NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and …
An artist’s representation of the extreme engine Millen lab The hottest engine in the world is minuscule, reaches seemingly impossible efficiencies and could approximate nature’s tiniest machines. A thermodynamic engine …
In mid-August, torrential monsoon rains struck Pakistan’s mountain-drenched north. So intense were these downpours that they swiftly unleashed flash floods, landslides, lightning strikes, and collapsing structures. As of August 16, …
Cuban brown anoles have the highest blood lead levels of any vertebrate known — three times that of the previous record holder, the Nile crocodile.
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on …
South_agency/Getty Images If you have swiped through fitness-related content on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok lately, chances are that an influencer on your feed has taken steroids. A recent global meta-study …
Southeast Asia has once again been battered by nature’s fury as Typhoon Kajiki struck Vietnam before triggering a trail of destruction across Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The storm arrives …
Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon or bar may carry unique flavors shaped by the soil, rainfall and temperature …
An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed. It and the galaxy it …
The hallucinogen psilocybin is produced in hundreds of species of magic mushroom [email protected] A single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin could be enough to remodel connections of specific brain …