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Scientists just found a bizarre cosmic object ‘hiding in plain sight’
Meet the Milky Way’s first microblazar
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 8:00 pm
2026 could be the turning point on climate action, Al Gore says
The former vice president thinks this year is when we’ll get serious about climate change
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 6:04 pm
Why Hawaii is facing an unprecedented hurricane season
Hawaii has never had three hurricanes come within 50 miles in the same year
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 4:02 pm
Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday
To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:00 pm
What’s the point of the interstellar Fermi Explorer mission?
Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been answered
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 12:45 pm
What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 12:00 pm
Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 8:00 pm
OpenAI’s agent hacking Australia is a warning for governments everywhere
In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 4:45 pm
Diesel fuel prices are rising—chemistry can help explain why
Diesel prices have almost doubled over the past year, spelling trouble for farmers, truckers and the entire U.S. economy
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 4:45 pm
AI solves 79-year-old math mystery of six-dimensional spheres
Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now an AI has apparently answered it
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 3:00 pm
China’s open AI models are testing America’s approach to AI safety
With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 1:00 pm
Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval
If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 1:08 am
See the Taurids light up the fall sky with brilliant shooting stars
Lasting from mid-September until mid-November, the Taurid meteor showers are among the longest of the year
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 9:37 pm
Watch a robot dog run a marathon faster than the average human
The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 5:00 pm
When it comes to ‘poop maxxing,’ are you optimizing or obsessing?
Is it possible to optimize our poop?
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 12:00 pm