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A powerful “Kelvin wave,” triggered by this year’s super El Niño, is creeping up the Pacific coast of Central and North America and will soon reach…
It’s well-known that regular exercise comes with health benefits, but exactly how those benefits manifest at the cellular level isn’t clear. Now, researchers have identified a…
Saturn is about to reach its annual opposition this week, when it appears at its brightest and biggest all year and becomes the only planet visible…
The patient: A 50-year-old woman in New YorkThe symptoms: The woman went to the hospital because she could not bend her legs, walk or sit up.…
Donald Trump cannot make clean energy expensive again. He can only make Americans pay extra for it. His tariffs do just that. But cost declines work…
An artist’s reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao Chuang)A predatory bird-like dinosaur with four…
Earth’s life-support systems are in peril — and they’re getting worse — but although the window for action is closing, we still have a chance to…
The largest defensive wall at Oued Beht. Archaeologists think its base was constructed about 4,000 years ago. (Image credit: G. Lucarini, Oued Beht Archaeological Project)Archaeologists have unearthed 4,000-year-old…
Newly discovered iron minerals could be the missing link in how water is stored in the deepest parts of Earth’s mantle and transported to the upper…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Caldas Novas, Goiás, Brazil [-17.788739460, -48.70589106]What’s in the photo? A giant, sponge-like dome towering above its surroundingsWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat…
