Pure Science

PsyPost

Athletic footwear has entered a new era of ambition. No longer content to promise just comfort or performance, Nike claims its shoes can activate the brain, heighten sensory awareness and even improve concentration by stimulating the...

Nautilus

If asked, most people would say lying is amoral. But if pressed, our true feelings on the matter are a little more complicated. Whether you call it “creative truth telling,” “massaging the truth,” or simple diplomacy, white lies are a...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about the rare instances when seismic and magma activity overlap in Yellowstone National Park. 

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly

Universe Today

When I say that the universe is 13.77 billion years old, it sounds rather authoritative.

Singularity Hub

The test tracks AI performance with thousands of graduate-level questions to track AI performance across academic disciplines. How do you translate a Roman inscription found on a tombstone? How many pairs of tendons are supported by one...

PsyPost

Couples seeking to reinvigorate their romantic lives often turn to novel experiences, ranging from travel to shared hobbies. A new study suggests that for some partners, this exploration has moved into the digital realm of erotic webcam...

SciTech Daily

Scientists have uncovered a direct molecular mechanism by which gut bacteria inject proteins into human cells, reshaping immune responses and potentially driving inflammatory disease. Scientists have discovered that bacteria living in the...

SciTech Daily

A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift. For decades, SAR11 bacteria have been held up as a model of ocean...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about the Artemis II launch delay, what concluded the fuel test, and how NASA plans to move forward with its next crewed Moon mission.

Universe Today

Astronomers haven't found many gas giants orbiting white dwarfs. But is that because they're so difficult to spot? Or is it because their survival rate is so low? New research probes the issue.

Nautilus

In outer space, floating between the stars, are cosmic dust clouds containing elements and molecules that are essential for the evolution of life. While these dust clouds are too far away to sample by conventional means, astronomers can...

Nautilus

Walking from the RV campground to the village restaurant in the Grand Canyon National Park this winter wouldn’t have been my first choice. But the RV my family had rented wasn’t permitted in the village, and my teenage daughter and I...

Science Focus

It's a difficult truth to swallow, but research shows that, every year, we consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles with our food. It’s enough to give you a kind of cognitive indigestion. How, in this age of food safety and...

NPR Science

NASA is targeting March for the launch of four astronauts on a ten-day mission to circle the moon and return safely to Earth, traveling farther than any humans have ventured in deep space. (Image credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo)

Scientific American

Experts have sounded the alarm over NASA’s decision to use a heat shield design for Artemis II that may be riskier than the space agency claims

SciTech Daily

In Yellowstone, cougars coexist with wolves by changing what they eat and where they hunt, minimizing conflict driven largely by prey theft. New research shows that encounters between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are...

Science Focus

Speak to anyone interested in AI recently, and you’ll be hearing about the same website. Head over to Moltbook.com, they'll tell you, and you’ll find a website reminiscent of Reddit, with users posting and chatting in countless subgroups...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities

PsyPost

An analysis of positron emission tomography data in Korea found that higher family income was associated with increased neural activity (estimated through increased glucose metabolism) in the caudate, putamen, anterior cingulate,...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, but the proposal might not be entirely serious

Nautilus

On land, most canyons are carved by erosion from rivers over millions of years. In the ocean, things are a bit trickier. The King’s Trough Complex, located more than 600 miles off the coast of Portugal, is a massive canyon that includes...

SciTech Daily

SpaceX Crew-12 is in quarantine as NASA prepares for its next journey to the space station. The four astronauts selected for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission have begun a standard two-week quarantine at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston....

Science Alert

Counterintuitive!

Science News

These parasitic beetle larvae lure in bees with complex floral aromas before hitching a ride back to their nests and eating their eggs.

Popular Science

As thousands of birds nest in the warm sun of Midway Atoll, some tend to their new chicks. In a video posted by Friends of Midway Atoll (FOMA), one of the newest Mōlī (Laysan albatross) chicks gets a careful “beak preen” from its parent. ...

NASA Breaking News

NASA/Sam Lott A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The agency...

PsyPost

A new study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology indicates that women who experience high levels of anxiety regarding their declining health tend to age faster at a molecular level compared to those who do not. The concept of aging is...

SciTech Daily

Scientists have unveiled a powerful new method for predicting Arctic sea ice months in advance, just as climate change drives rapid ice loss. Arctic sea ice plays a powerful role in regulating Earth’s climate. By reflecting sunlight and...

Scientific American

Acquiring xAI could boost SpaceX’s plans to launch a one-million-strong satellite constellation to act as an orbital data center

Chemistry World

Final 2026 budget figures, passed by Congress and signed into law, reject significant cuts that the White House had proposed

Science News

A new study finds that humans and AI spot different kinds of deepfakes — hinting at the need to team up to fight them.

Popular Science

It is every pet owner’s worst nightmare: their beloved furry friend going missing. In 2025, a dog named Ziggy made a break for it and bolted during a road trip with his human, a California woman named Surely. Previously, the odds of Surely...

NASA Breaking News

NASA/JPL-Caltech Rapid advances in commercial space, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are transforming what is possible for Earth observation. By pushing more intelligence onboard, missions can move from passively collecting...

Nautilus

Ever since he found a fossilized parrot mandible in 1983, Flinders University paleontologist Trevor Worthy has wondered about the backstory of fossils in Moa Eggshell Cave, North Island, New Zealand. The country is rife with fossil...

SciTech Daily

New research suggests that long-standing assumptions about sex and gender continue to shape how studies are designed, interpreted, and reported. Researchers at the University of British Columbia say a basic question is still being answered...

SciTech Daily

Failing kidneys may be quietly sending toxic signals that damage the heart. Scientists have identified a key reason why more than half of people with chronic kidney disease eventually die from heart-related conditions. New evidence shows...

PsyPost

Recent research indicates that specific personality traits marked by emotional fragility and impulsivity are strong predictors of addictive behaviors toward smartphones and social media. The findings suggest that for insecure individuals,...

Chemistry World

Genetically modified bacteria glow in high levels of acetic acid, a common signal that wine has gone bad

SciTech Daily

A large global genetics study shows that many key drivers of Type 2 diabetes operate outside the bloodstream. Scientists are getting a clearer picture of why Type 2 diabetes is so hard to pin down. In a major international project led in...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.

Science News

Procrastination in young adulthood is not set in stone, though change is difficult, a long-term study shows.

Science Alert

This explains a lot.

The Guardian

Researchers say sediment changes due to waste dumping and coastal erosion intensified by climate breakdown As much as half of some British beaches’ coarse sediments consist of human-made materials such as brick, concrete, glass and...

Popular Science

Each winter, over a million “snowbirds” descend on places like Florida and Arizona to avoid the season’s freezing temperatures and instead, ride it out in warmth. For many, it’s simply because they prefer the weather. For others, it’s a...

MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper...

PsyPost

A new study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that sexual minority adults may experience a distinct physiological reaction to mental health challenges compared to heterosexual adults. The findings...

Scientific American

Researchers mimicked the air-trapping tricks of diving bell spiders to create aluminum that stays afloat—even when punctured