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A UN report says its possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, but many researchers regard this scenario as highly unlikely

Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexicos largest reservoir, plunged to just 1.4 percent capacity in July 2026 after years of extreme drought and record early snowmelt. The dramatic decline exposed long-submerged debris and ...

Some of the attention patterns that make ADHD challenging may also help spark creativity by allowing the brain to explore more ideas and unexpected connections. Researchers think creative activities could potentially cha...

Salk scientists discover how severe illness during pregnancy alters fetal epigenomes, increasing the risk for autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static magnetic fields without using external magnets or magnetic materials-an approach that could adva...

A decagon - a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles - has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there

What happens when a superconductor becomes so thin that electrons can no longer behave as if they were moving through an ordinary three-dimensional piece of metal? This question has been at the center of my recent work o...

Inside some fusion energy systems, particles hotter than the core of the sun can become unruly in a few thousandths of a second, far faster than any human operator can react. A new software framework developed by researc...

Readers offer different perspectives on the fate of life on Earth should the sun vanish - and there may be hope for some

Why hasnt evolution reintroduced gills in the land-based mammals that returned to the sea? And what is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?

Readers continue to share their two cents on how best to keep your cocktail cool

The relentless heatwaves that have hit the northern hemisphere this summer have made the climate threat real for many - but preparation and adaptation will take us only so far

One reader delves into whether or not fish can see air - and question if humans can strictly see water

Are these floating houses in Amsterdams IJburg district the shape of things to come? Check out Floating Futures, a new series by photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi

People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mothers womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconcerting, backwards world, finds science fic...

A moon may once have been consumed by Venus, after existing alongside the planet for up to 1.7 billion years

An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes us inside the cave where they lived and died

An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result shows that a fundamenta...

Deep Fission has just received safety approval from the US Department of Energy for a reactor design that it plans to install at the bottom of a deep hole

A year ago, researchers made a splash with a wildly creative idea for building a laser from notoriously elusive particles, but a new analysis shows this is probably impossible

Neutrinos are pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars and our bodies by the trillions each second. The elementary particles are often described as "ghostl...

Broken heart syndrome can mimic a heart attack so closely that patients often need invasive testing to tell the difference. Researchers have now developed the BioTAK score, which combines biological sex with blood biomar...