Some bottlenose dolphins have learned to use tools to help them fish, a clever technique that can be passed from mother to calf. Scientists in Australia observed dolphins chasing fish into empty seashells and bringing them to the surface before putting the prey in their mouths. A baby dolphin was also seen copying its mother … Read more
The liver is one of the most notable organs in the human body. This multitasking dynamo performs around 500 vital functions, including processing nutrients and filtering harmful substances from the blood. Despite the chemical toxins it has to deal with daily, the liver is preternaturally young, thanks to its unique ability to regenerate. However, not … Read more
August 17, 2026 Updated August 18, 2026 at 5:47 am ET The FAA predicts that commercial rocket launches will increase dramatically over the next decade. NASA’s Artemis lunar missions and commercial satellite deployments are driving the increase in launches. Florida and California, the top launching states, have already experienced record years in rocket activity. The … Read more
If you look up on a dark night, the Milky Way appears as a quiet band of stars in the sky. But our galaxy has a violent past. For more than 13 billion years it has grown through star formation and mergers with other galaxies. We already know that several important galaxies helped build the … Read more
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It seems like the least efficient way to clean a table. One cup, one trip, round trip, when waiting five more minutes would allow the same person to carry all four at once and reduce the total number of trips by three quarters. Efficiency experts would wince. And yet, almost everyone has done exactly this, … Read more
At the center of our galaxy hides a supermassive black hole: a voracious object capable of devouring matter that gets too close. However, new observations from JWST suggest that right in that black hole’s cosmic neighborhood, a dying star is still spewing matter back into space. Not all stars are massive enough to die as … Read more
From the western edge of Jezero Crater, Earth was not a blue world on July 2, 2026. It was a single bright pixel, 314 million kilometers away, moving across the night sky of Mars. A thin crescent of Phobos approached from the other direction. Then, for a few moments in a sequence of images taken … Read more
“Are you sure they’re not twins?” The question came from a woman I’d never spoken to before, both of us standing on our pedals in the middle of class in a dark spin studio that smelled like clove deodorant and someone else’s protein shake. I had been pregnant with my second daughter for six months … Read more
Blue Origin plans to return its Florida launch site to a dual-deck facility to support its larger, more powerful New Glenn “9×4” rocket, which is still in development. As facility repairs continue following the explosion of one of Blue Origin’s “7×2” New Glenn rockets during testing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex-36 in … Read more