This cookie is made from waste plant materials and plastic and could feed humans everywhere, from submarines to spaceships. (SIU Carbondale Communications) When you pull out your favorite cookie recipe, you probably won’t find plastic as one of the ingredients, but scientists have found a way to transform your trash into treats that could help … Read more
The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or asteroid, and it has a massive battle scar to prove it. The space rock, estimated to be the size of a three- to six-story-tall building, crashed into the moon’s eastern edge two years ago, between April 11 and May 22, 2024, although researchers did … Read more
Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life within hundreds of kilometres of the blasts was shattered. Ash was dispersed across much of North America and the effects … Read more
The Sun is approximately 4.6 billion years old and is about halfway through its main sequence lifespan. The popular conception holds that the destruction of the Earth will occur when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5,000,000,000 years, but the Earth may become uninhabitable billions of years earlier, not due to a sudden … Read more
Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have unveiled the world’s first zero-degradation elastocaloric cooling device. The team claims their innovation delivers long-lasting, eco-friendly cooling, maintaining stable performance even over an impressive one million operating cycles. Powered by a fatigue-resistant solid-state coolant, this innovation is expected to usher in highly efficient … Read more
Alexander Du, a 17-year-old student from Sewickley, Pennsylvania, has been named the 2026 Presidential AI Challenge National Champion for inventing IRIS, an AI-powered wearable device designed to help blind and visually impaired people navigate their environment. The teen built the $170 system after watching his grandmother struggle to navigate the world differently after losing her … Read more
When the Hubble Space Telescope finishes observing one galaxy and turns toward another, nothing shoots into space. There is no hydrazine cloud or small rocket hiding behind the solar panels. The maneuver begins with electric motors that change the speed of the metal wheels inside the observatory. This is not simply a fuel saving technique. … Read more
“Crying is predictable. Silence is terrifying”: 911 operators share the calls that seem good at first, but are actually major emergencies buzzfeed.com
IRVINE, California — About 12.5 trillion tons of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to pack ice 5 feet deep across the entire continental United States, according to a major scientific report. Earth’s warming is accelerating the melting of the planet’s two main ice sheets, … Read more
Roman’s first test image shows hundreds of stars as green rings of light. After a few more months of adjustment, it will capture images as sharp as Hubble’s but 100 times larger. (Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Tyler Desjardins (STScI)) Quick Facts What it is: Hundreds of stars, captured in the first Nancy … Read more