Lights could be the future of the internet and data transmission

A new study led by the University of Surrey and University of Cambridge has investigated how to release high-speed photonic sources using metal-halide perovskites. These are semiconductors being researched with LEDs for their excellent optoelectronic properties and low-cost processing methods.

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Blood of Young Mice Extends Life in the Old

Infusions of youthful blood led older mice to live 6 to 9 percent longer, a new study found.

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches world’s most massive communications satellite [Updated]

SpaceX has again launched a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth.

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AI to predict your health later in life — all at the press of a button

Thanks to artificial intelligence, we will soon be able to predict our risk of developing serious health conditions later in life, at the press of a button. ECU's School of Science and School of Medical and Health Sciences have collaborated to develop software which can analyse roughly 60,000 scans in a single day.

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US heatwave: Scorching heat strains US air conditioning capacity

Weather experts warn of "dangerously hot conditions" over the weekend for millions of Americans.

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Seven major automakers are teaming up on a North American EV charging network

Will this be the next big charging network to match Tesla’s?

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2-faced white dwarf star surprises astronomers

A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.

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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."

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Tired of proving you're not a robot? Say goodbye to Captcha boxes.

You have probably seen Captchas - puzzles that ask you to pick out all the bicycles in an image or to decipher letters that are written in squiggly lines. These riddles are designed to let you buy concert tickets or sign up for Netflix but keep out someone who is using computers to hammer a bank website with bogus credit card applications or employing rapid-fire software to buy video game consoles before you have a chance.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesti

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We’re About to Find Out if UFOs Are Real. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again.

Congress is starting to take “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” seriously.

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World's biggest permafrost crater in Russia’s Far East thaws as planet warms

Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the world's biggest permafrost crater.

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Worms that contain the same lethal neurotoxin as puffer fish are invading the East Coast

The population of so-called hammerhead worms is expected to spread across the East Coast of the United States as the climate continues to warm.

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There is a ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean, and scientists now think they know why

An anomaly known as the geoid low has long puzzled geologists. One team has found what it believes is a credible explanation, and it’s coming from deep inside Earth.

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Long-forgotten frozen soil sample offers a warning for the future

Ancient soil was buried under a mile of ice until excavated during the Cold War.

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A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn't notice until 2 days later

A stealthy asteroid the size of a 20-story building hid in the sun's glare before zooming uncomfortably close to Earth on July 13. Scientists didn't notice until July 15.

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First robotic liver transplant in U.S. performed by Washington University surgeons

Groundbreaking surgery performed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis

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Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing

Why should Google keep offering organic results if they’re written by a bot?

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Chuck Schumer’s UFO Bill Is Not Messing Around About Aliens

The Senate majority leader really wants the public to know what’s out there.

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Fleet of robots could build human colony on the Moon and ‘talk to each other’

The latest advances in human advances to move into space has come from scientists who have developed a team of whizzy three-legged robots that might be able to work together as ‘teammates’

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For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon

“They’ve got a great adventure ahead of them.”

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World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies

Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'

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Scientists Discover Giant Sinkhole in China With Primeval ‘Lost World’ Inside

At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese government, it is one of 30 enormous sinkholes in the county.

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Individuals with ADHD are more likely to participate in politics, study finds

A study conducted in Israel before the national elections in 2019 found that individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to participate in politics than individuals without ADHD symptoms.

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A Meatless Diet Is Better for You—And the Planet

Vegetarian and especially vegan diets can promote better health, help mitigate climate change and reduce inhumane factory farming

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No quiet place: Scientists say you can hear silence - study

“Our results suggest that silence is truly heard, not merely inferred, introducing a general approach for studying the perception of absence,” the researchers say.

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Ancient Trilobites Had Crystal Eyes, And They're Still a Mystery

Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.

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The US Is Ugly. THIS is Why.

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Google's Bard chatbot finally launches in the EU, now supports more than 40 languages

Google has expanded Bard, its AI-powered chatbot, to more countries and introduced new features like a tone adjustment toggle.

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Chipotle is hiring a robot to do a task employees hate

Chiptole's robot "Autocado," designed to cut, core, and peel avocados, is expected to slice guacamole prep time in half.

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A Texas Oak Tree Was Believed to Be Extinct. Now It’s Making a Comeback.

Twelve years after the last known Quercus tardifolia disappeared, conservationists at the San Antonio Botanical Garden are bringing the species back.

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Nature’s Solution to Plastic Pollution: The Amazing Power of the Wax Worm

We are honoring the top 10 winners of our Student STEM Writing Contest by publishing their essays. This one is by Justin Wang.

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Canada's Crawford Lake chosen as 'golden spike' to mark proposed new epoch

Scientists have picked the bottom of Crawford Lake in Ontario to mark the start of a new proposed, but controversial, geologic epoch – the Anthropocene. Here’s what that means, why this Canadian lake was chosen and why it could be a huge deal, scientifically.

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Private jets are descending on a small-town airport as the 'summer camp for billionaires' kicks off

It's officially summer, and that means billionaires and CEOs are flying private to their annual summer camp, also known as the Sun Valley conference.

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Solar storm on Thursday expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states

A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere. Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most often seen in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, but an 11-year solar cycle that's expected to peak in 2024 is making the lights visible in places farther to the south. Three months ago, the light displays were visible in Arizona, marking the third severe geomagnetic storm since the current solar cycle began in 2019.

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NASA's quirky new lunar rover will be the first to cruise the moon's south pole

It’s no simple feat to send a rover to space, land it on a celestial body, and get the wheels rolling. NASA has used all kinds of techniques: The Pathfinder rover landed on Mars in 1997 inside a cluster of airbags, then rolled down its landing vehicle’s “petals,” which bloomed open like a flower, to the dusty surface. Cables attached to a rocket-powered “sky crane” spacecraft dropped the Perseverance Mars rover to the Red Planet’s surface in 2021.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots violent collision between neutron stars

The telescope traced an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to a kilonova, a dramatic event believed to forge heavy elements like gold.

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Harvard Will Teach Students Using an AI Instructor Next Semester

Starting in September, a popular intro-level coding course at Harvard University, CS50, will be taught by an AI professor.

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How Loud Can a Human Scream? What The Science Says | House Grail

Human screams are typically 100 dB loud. This level may not seem that loud but 15 minutes of exposure to 100 dB can cause hearing damage

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The weirdness of youtube's algorithm

So, do thousands of fundamentalists watch plate tectonics videos and then want to listen to hymns? WTF?

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Transcranial Pulse Stimulation with Ultrasound in Alzheimer's DiseaseA New Navigated Focal Brain Therapy

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Scientists prove Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are interfering with ability to study the cosmos

Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.

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Masturbating is healthy and an evolutionarily strategic mating tactic

Masturbation comes with a variety of health benefits that help all primates – even humans – survive and thrive, and may have helped our species evolve, according to a British study. Indeed, the practice of masturbation is something seen throughout the animal kingdom, though it is most widely associated with humans. However, the researchers behind this study believe that it is also something likely present throughout humanity's evolutionary history, present in the last common ancestor of humans, monkeys, and apes.

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Seven Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year

The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sophisticated space observatory ever built, has been sending back images and data for almost a full year now—and in that time it has delivered a treasure trove of information about everything from stars and planetary systems in our own galactic neighborhood to distant galaxies that formed when the universe was a tiny fraction of its current age.

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Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in space. Nuclear fusion propulsion tech, arguably a golden goose of the space industry, could reduce the travel time to Mars by half and cut the travel time to Titan, Saturn’s moon, to two years instead of 10. It sounds like science fiction, but Pulsar CEO Richard Dinan told TechCrunch in a recent interview that fusion propulsion was “inevitable.”

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The Surprisingly Sinister History Behind Texass Cliff Chirping Frog

It’s named for frontier naturalist Gabriel Marnoch, who led a life of crime while discovering new species.

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Bad news for nervous flyers: Turbulence is getting worse as the planet warms

A recent study from researchers at the University of Reading in England provides some insight into how our skies have changed over the past few decades.

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MIT physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs

When your laptop or smartphone heats up, it’s due to energy that’s lost in translation. The same goes for power lines that transmit electricity between cities. In fact, around 10 percent of the generated energy is lost in the transmission of electricity. That’s because the electrons that carry electric charge do so as free agents, bumping and grazing against other electrons as they move collectively through power cords and transmission lines. All this jostling generates friction, and, ultimately, heat.

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Toyota Is Right: We Need More Hybrid Cars and Fewer EVs. Here's Why

The auto industry is going all-in on electric vehicles, but a better way to lower emissions quickly is staring us in the face: hybrids.

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Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery

The tiny baby octopuses—each about the size of a nickel—emerged from soft, membranous eggs, clutched in their mothers’ protective embrace. One by one the hatchlings gracefully unfurled their delicate tentacles and floated away into the abyss.

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Astro-tourism chasing eclipses meteor showers and elusive dark skies from Earth

With two eclipses and several meteor showers coming up, an astronomy professor shares travel tips for viewing astronomical phenomena.

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