Among the most energetic events in the universe’s catalog of violent events since the Big Bang, astronomers have found a new extreme in the class of cosmic explosions. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients (ENTs), these rare, ultra-luminous events were seen in the centers of far-off galaxies where supermassive black holes split apart large stars in catastrophic ...
New research has revealed that emperor penguins are experiencing a faster-than-expected decline due to shrinking Antarctic sea ice. A study by the British Antarctic Survey analyzed satellite images from 2009 to 2024, showing a 22 percent drop in emperor penguin numbers across key colonies. This rate of loss is 50 percent worse than previous estimates, ...
One of the biggest dangers to contemporary medicine is antibiotic resistance; superbugs are changing faster than we can create new medications. However, if we could monitor these bacterial changes in real time and forecast their next direction before they outmaneuver our treatments? Investigating the genetic battlefield between bacteria and antibiotics as it develops inside human ...
The Sun’s poles have long been a cosmic mystery buried from Earth’s perspective by the simple fact that our planet, along with every other spacecraft, orbits within the equatorial plane. Thanks to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft, however, mankind has now seen the solar south pole in history. Captured in March 2025, ...
New research suggests that sea levels could rise more steeply than previously predicted, based on fossil coral evidence from the Seychelles Islands. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an international team analyzed fossilized corals to reconstruct past sea levels, revealing abrupt pulses of sea-level rise during the Last Interglacial period. Their findings indicate that ...
A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive black hole has unleashed a jet of energy so strong it defies understanding illuminated not by starlight but by the fading echo of the Big Bang itself. Three times the width of our Milky Way, ...
Imagine a time when mushrooms will make your shoes, handbag, even phone cover rather than synthetic plastics or animal hides. Though it sounds like science fiction, researchers at McMaster University have opened a radical new frontier in sustainable materials using an improbable hero: the modest split gill mushroom (Schizophyllum commune). Having more than 23,000 genetic ...
Scientists have pursued the illusive dream of slowing aging not only to extend life but also to guarantee good health during those extra years. Now, from an improbable location your medicine cabinet an unannounced competitor has surfaced. Prescribed widely as a blood pressure medication, rilmenidine has been shown in animals to extend lifespan and enhance ...
Beneath Bermuda’s bustling cities and sun-kissed beaches lies an undiscovered world full of evolutionary mysteries. Scientists have discovered Tetragoniceps bermudensis, a newly identified species of copepod, in the limestone caves of the Walsingham system, which are part of a complex cave system within Bermuda’s limestone mountains. This tiny crustacean, measuring only a few millimeters, is ...
Imagine leaving and discovering, from a dinosaur taller than a house, a huge, three-toed footprint pressed into the ground not from a bird. Not science fiction is this situation. Recent findings in Brazil and Cameroon show that dinosaurs did in fact wander areas today including city streets, farms, and highways 120 million years ago. Originally ...
