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Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the species has quietly survived for generations

Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the species has quietly survived for generations

A woman took a shortcut through a cemetery to avoid a parking fee and ended up in a scientific paper. Rachel Fordyce worked as a technician in an entomology laboratory at Cornell University. To avoid paying for a parking spot on campus, I used to park in a nearby plaza and walk the last stretch … Read more

China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples

China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples

(NewsNation) — China has set a timeline for recovering samples from the surface of Mars within the next half-decade, while similar ambitions in the US have been sidelined by funding issues. The Tianwen-3 robotic mission launching in 2028 would travel to the Red Planet, collect 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of samples and return them to … Read more

In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane

In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane

An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists demonstrating a new form of the Hall effect. For more than a century, the Hall effect has been taught with a simple picture of electricity flowing through a material, a magnetic field pushing moving charges sideways, and a voltage appearing across … Read more

Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out.

Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out.

Imagine an alien civilization powered by dazzling technologies far more advanced than ours. Imagine city-sized spaceships, planetary mines, or swarms of solar panels harvesting energy directly from a star. As these aliens go about their supernatural business, the erosive forces of space wear away at their infrastructure, releasing small pieces of debris that break off … Read more

The same scientists who reported water erupting from Europa in 2014 have now reanalysed 14 years of Hubble data and cut their confidence from 99.9% to below 90%. The signal may have been statistical noise, leaving Europa’s famous geysers physically plausible—but never conclusively observed, and never proven to connect with the ocean below.

The same scientists who reported water erupting from Europa in 2014 have now reanalysed 14 years of Hubble data and cut their confidence from 99.9% to below 90%. The signal may have been statistical noise, leaving Europa’s famous geysers physically plausible—but never conclusively observed, and never proven to connect with the ocean below.

Europa’s water plumes became one of planetary science’s most memorable images without ever becoming a secure photograph. Illustrations showed white geysers rising from fractures in the ice. Hubble data were translated into views of a south-polar eruption reaching roughly 200 kilometres above the moon. Mission concepts began to discuss flying through the material rather than … Read more

Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth

Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth

Sign up to see the future today Unmissable innovations from the cutting edge of science and technology Drilling thousands of kilometers into the Earth to study our planet’s inner layers – its thin crust, rigid mantle, liquid outer core, and solid inner core – is simply not feasible given technological limitations. Instead, geologists often use … Read more

Ganymede may hold more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, yet this immense reservoir is buried beneath roughly 150 kilometres of ice—and scientists still do not know whether any of it has ever reached the surface.

Ganymede may hold more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, yet this immense reservoir is buried beneath roughly 150 kilometres of ice—and scientists still do not know whether any of it has ever reached the surface.

Ganímedes puede contener más agua líquida que todos los océanos de la superficie de la Tierra juntos. La escala es difícil de conciliar con el aspecto seco y maltratado de la Luna. No hay mares abiertos, ni fracturas oscuras que derramen vapor de agua ni ninguna columna confirmada que lleve una muestra al espacio. El … Read more

Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO₂ to help transform the planet into the inferno we see today

Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO₂ to help transform the planet into the inferno we see today

Venus carries what look, at first glance, like river systems across its volcanic plains. They meander, divide around islands and sometimes preserve abandoned bends. One of them, Baltis Vallis, runs for roughly 6,800 kilometres, making it the longest known channel in the Solar System. Water cannot explain these landforms under present conditions. Venus’s surface is … Read more

Why NASA keeps sending astronauts to a gas station town in Utah

Why NASA keeps sending astronauts to a gas station town in Utah

Upon arriving in Hanksville, Utah, one of the first things that will immediately strike you is how far away it is. For starters, regardless of where you arrive, it will undoubtedly have taken you hours to get there. The closest international airport is in Salt Lake City, about 220 miles to the north, and even … Read more