Millions of people around the world are affected by common mental disorders such as depression, emotional stress and suicidal tendencies…
See Jupiter Take One for the Solar System
A flash of light caught on film shows the giant planet getting smacked by an asteroid or comet. It appears…
India to Join Hunt for Gravitational Waves
The United States signed a new partner to expand the search for gravitational waves, ripples in the interwoven fabric of…
The birds that are winning thanks to climate change
They may be separated by an ocean, but birds in the US and Europe are responding to climate change in…
Yuval Roth gives Palestinians a lift so they can get medical care in Israel
Yuval Roth woke at the crack of dawn to drive his large, white van from his home on Israel’s Mediterranean…
‘Baby Earth 2.0’ Found in Young Star’s Crib
Where DO baby planets come from? Well, this observation of a young sun-like star sporting a ringed protoplanetary disk holds…
Creepy New Fossil Shows the Dawn of Spiders
A beautifully preserved fossil from France has given paleontologists a look at an animal that is almost, but not quite, the…
New England’s Cod Is Fading Fast
New England’s stocks of cod—the fish that fed colonists and launched the United States’ first industries—have collapsed almost past the…
New Butterfly Discovered in Alaska for First Time in 28 Years
A scientist organizing butterfly specimens in a museum collection made a startling discovery: What people had thought was a variant of…
Pluto Probably Has an Ocean Under its Surface
Despite being so far from the sun, tiny Pluto, which is smaller than Earth’s moon, has had an active geologic…
Supercomputer simulates whole-body blood flow
A new supercomputer simulation of blood moving around the entire human body compares extremely well with real-world flow measurements, researchers…
Man With a Simple Metal Detector Finds Discovery of a Lifetime
A man in England went exploring with a metal detector and made the discovery of a lifetime: an exquisitely preserved…