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The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, is in major trouble. Since the mid-1990s, this saline lake, located between Europe and Asia, has…
In the dead of night on Wednesday (Aug. 5), part of a defunct SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at more than 5,000 mph (8,000 km/h)…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new seasonal flu vaccine that uses mRNA as its base.Moderna, the vaccine’s maker, announced Wednesday (Aug.…
Physicists have built a crystal out of an “einstein” tile — an elusive shape mathematicians spent years searching for — and found that it bends light…
A German startup has debuted the world’s first diamond-based quantum computing system to exceed 10 qubits.The machine, built by engineers at Saxon Q, is a nitrogen-vacancy…
A fleet of telescopes around the world just captured the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in the most detailed-ever observations of their kind.The explosive…
Every total solar eclipse travels from west to east, because the moon and Earth move in the same direction — counterclockwise, or from west to east.…
A camera drone operator captured footage of a humpback whale giving birth off the north coast of New South Wales in what is thought to be…
An illustration of an ichthyosaur eating a pterosaur, while a pliosaur lurks beneath. (Image credit: Peter Trusler)An ichthyosaur fossil found in Australia’s outback may preserve a…
In the past 20 years, an increasing number of bacterial infections caught by children have been resistant to antibiotics, a new study finds.The research, published in…
