The latest discovery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it’s previously only found them in small patches, […]
Today marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the theme “Trapped Behind the Scam.” This draws attention to trafficking victims forced into online fraud.
New research reveals the surprising habit that quietly dulls a sharp mind — and it’s not neglect, it’s the competence you’ve already built up over the years.
Basking sharks are not just drifting long-distance travelers relying on stored energy. Satellite tags reveal they likely feed throughout their migrations, diving deep into the mesopelagic zone to track dense layers of small organisms like fish and zoop…
The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $1…
Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published a result in Nature on Wednesday: a silicon quantum processor that, in effect, runs its…
July’s buck moon rose worldwide on July 29, 2026, marking midsummer nights and setting the stage for August’s eclipse-packed skies.
Two meteor showers peak on July 30-31 as the Perseids continue building toward an exceptional August peak under moonless skies later this summer.
The planet parade is happening around the same time as Perseids and the upcoming solar eclipse.
The Iran conflict shows how low-cost weapons exploit chokepoints. The space community must prioritize resilience through diversity to avoid the same mistake.