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Hera, the next asteroid-deflection space mission, aims to gather recon on the DART test's collision with Dimorphos. → Read More
Telltale markings on ancient human bones indicate that a group of people known as the Yamnaya may have ridden horses in 3000 BCE. → Read More
Our next leap second may be a negative one, meaning the world's clocks will skip one second into the future to account for the Earth spinning faster. → Read More
Using 19th-century math, a team of engineers revealed what happens inside neural networks they've created. The calculations are familiar. → Read More
Placing billions of kilograms of moondust between Earth and the sun could reduce incoming light by almost 2 percent per year. → Read More
Rocks remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when it’s warm and rainy, in a process that's like nature's air filter. → Read More
Simulations of a shockwave from a nuclear bomb blast show the best and worst places to take shelter in your home. → Read More
An experiment on a rocket helped engineers and physicists create grains full of a strong material called titanium carbide. → Read More
UV-B radiation in fossilized pollen grains give a clue to how the end-of-Permian mass extinction went down on Earth. → Read More
MIT researchers created a device that fills silicone skins with resin to create shapes that would collapse in our planet's gravity. → Read More
The leap second helps adjust the world's clocks for little differences in the Earth's rotation and day length. But most timekeepers and regular people won't miss it. → Read More
Scientists at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used 192 lasers to generate more energy than they put in. → Read More
eDNA, or environmental DNA, has helped reconstruct an entire ecosystem in northern Greenland, dating before the ice ages. → Read More
Transistors are everywhere, powering our computers, everyday gadgets like smartphones, and even spacecraft. → Read More
Game-changing new developments in space, a “Parallel Reality” on the ground, and more innovations are the Best of What’s New. → Read More
Results from early chemical analyses of the Winchcombe meteorite and 200 Mars-borne meteors reveal water and ancient amino acids. → Read More
National Ignition Facility scientists are lighting up their fusion cylinder within the flux of a strong magnetic field. → Read More
The origin of neutrinos in galaxy NGC 1068 is not what researchers expected, because it is so different from a previously identified source. → Read More
The laws of special relativity say that there's nothing in the universe that's faster than the speed of light. So why do gamma-ray bursts seem to break that limit? → Read More
In a search for the Earth's first breath, geologists tried to piece together a timeline of when oxygen levels rose and dove in the ancient atmosphere. → Read More