SScience Read More Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts sayJanuary 7, 2026 Moon boots and Mars boots: anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still…
EEnvironment Read More Rare mountain gorilla twins born in DR Congo’s Virunga National ParkJanuary 7, 2026 A pair of twin mountain gorillas has been born in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo – a…
SSpace Read More NASA seeks to accelerate development of Habitable Worlds ObservatoryJanuary 7, 2026 PHOENIX — NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for…
PPhysics Read More Astronomers Catch Rare Black Hole Event 400 Billion Times the Power of the SunJanuary 7, 2026 A groundbreaking study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed an unprecedented…
WWildlife Read More ‘Suddenly, we felt our boat moving’January 7, 2026 Thirty killer whales viciously attacked a Dutch family’s yacht off Portugal’s coast, just several weeks after a similar…
SScience Read More We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse | Brent Minchew and Colin MeyerJanuary 7, 2026 Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters…
EEnvironment Read More Ocean in the desert: engineers want to pump billions of liters of desalination water from the Pacific to Nevada after the Colorado River failed and reservoirs reached historic lows; the desalination plan is extremely expensive, crosses mountains, seems like a last resort, and could create an “inland sea” in the desertJanuary 7, 2026 The idea of pumping billions of liters The route from the Pacific Ocean to Nevada returned to the…
SSpace Read More Commercial Space Stations Are Coming in 2026January 7, 2026 The era of commercial space stations is set to begin in 2026, marking a revolutionary change in the…
PPhysics Read More MIT Scientists Capture ‘Second Sound’ in Quantum Fluid, Proving Its ExistenceJanuary 7, 2026 While heat in everyday materials spreads gradually from a hot point outward, this rule breaks down inside superfluids,…
WWildlife Read More Endangered fin whale found dead on container ship in New Jersey portJanuary 7, 2026 GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. (AP) — After a dead whale was found on the bow of a container ship…