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The Florida Everglades are a vast subtropical wilderness of salt marshes, mangrove forests, cypress trees, and slow-moving waters. But beneath its seemingly tranquil surface lives an extraordinary collection of predators. Alligators lurk almost completely submerged, venomous snakes disappear into the vegetation, and huge invasive pythons squeeze the life out of their prey. Even sharks can … Read more

The main LUX-ZEPLIN detector in a surface laboratory before its underground installation. Researchers now report that they have found an unexplained phenomenon that could be direct proof of the existence of dark matter. Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility The LZ dark matter detector was placed nearly a mile underground in a former gold mine at … Read more

Scientists have overcome a surprising obstacle in synthetic biology: they obtained two different genetic codes working inside the same cell. The breakthrough is a step toward building life forms that can make proteins with ingredients that nature never adopted. Here’s what you need to know The finding is important because it goes against one of … Read more

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy carrying NASA’s Roman Space Telescope crosses the face of the sun as it launches into space from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo taken by Space.com’s Josh Dinner from a Titusville Hobby Lobby parking lot. This is how he did it. (Image credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner) … Read more

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its distribution partners may earn a commission. Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched into Earth orbit in November 2004 and will soon fall from space. | Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Imaging Laboratory NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is … Read more

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has returned to studying the universe after spending months in a low-endurance configuration while awaiting an orbital rescue mission that ultimately failed. Mission controllers restarted two of Swift’s three scientific instruments: its X-ray Telescope (XRT) and its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT), on August 26. Both instruments had been shut down in … Read more

SALT LAKE CITY — Each year, James Karner travels to Antarctica as principal investigator of the Antarctic Meteorite Search to find and collect meteorites for the world to study. Despite these annual pilgrimages, Karner had never witnessed a meteorite fall. That was until the morning of August 13, 2022, when he and many others heard … Read more

Photographer James Balog and his team were near a glacier when his camera captured something extraordinary. They were in Greenland, collecting time-lapse images they had placed around the Arctic Circle over the past few years. They were also there to film scenes for a documentary. And while they were hoping to capture some interesting moments … Read more

On a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston last week, President Trump promised that American astronauts would establish a permanent presence on the Moon before moving on to Mars. “Our nation will conquer… this vast frontier before us… We will explore it, we will dominate it and we will win it,” he said … Read more

The phrase “hidden supervolcano” sounds a bit like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Supervolcanoes are notoriously eye-catching, due to their enormous size and their tendency to spew enormous amounts of lava, ash and rock into the sky. This one, however, has been quietly buried off the east coast of England for millennia. Their discovery, detailed in … Read more