Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

Scientists made AI agents ruder — and they performed better at complex reasoning tasks

When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner that reaches more accurate...

Fresh look at Apollo moon rocks solves decades-old mystery about the moon’s magnetic field

For decades, a debate has raged about whether the moon ever had a strong magnetic field, or if it was always weak. Now, a...

‘There will be leadership accountability’: Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew at risk, report says

NASA has put the failed 2024 test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters and...

Many men lose their Y chromosomes as they age. It may shorten their lives.

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male...

Trump is bringing car pollution and other greenhouse gases back to America’s skies. Here are the health risks we all face from climate change.

The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America's climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind...

Western Europe’s earliest known mule died 2,700 years ago — and it was buried with a partially cremated woman

Around 2,700 years ago, a partially cremated woman was buried with a mule — the oldest remains of the hybrid animal ever found in...