Why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' close Earth approach is an early Christmas gift for astronomers
Monday, December 15, 2025 from SPACE.com
When 3I/ATLAS is closest to the Earth on Dec. 19, all the features that we are looking for will be easier to detect with our telescopes.
Amid a Satellite Boom, Scientists Warn of Emissions Risks
Monday, December 15, 2025 from Undark
With hundreds of satellites launched each year and tens of thousands more planned, scientists are increasingly concerned about an emerging problem: emissions from the fuels burned in launches and from the pollutants released when...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Florida
Monday, December 15, 2025 from SPACE.com
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.
Indoor tanning triples melanoma risk and seeds broad DNA mutations
Monday, December 15, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers discovered that tanning beds cause widespread, mutation-laden DNA damage across almost all skin, explaining the sharply increased melanoma risk. Single-cell genomic analysis revealed dangerous mutations even in sun-protected...
Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive, finds study
Monday, December 15, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.
Researchers find how plants survive without sunlight or sex
Monday, December 15, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the plastids remain vital. Asexual...
Strange Viking Age burial with shells covering woman’s mouth leaves archaeologists perplexed
Monday, December 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Scallop shells were associated with cult of St James in Middle Ages
Researchers identify viral suspects that could be fueling long COVID
Monday, December 15, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists are uncovering a new possibility behind long COVID’s stubborn symptoms: hidden infections that awaken or emerge alongside SARS-CoV-2. Evidence is mounting that viruses like Epstein-Barr and even latent tuberculosis may flare...
Spain's commitment to renewable energy may be in doubt
Monday, December 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
The current government is politically weakened and the opposition wants more use of fossil fuels.
SpaceX adds 27 satellites to its growing Starlink constellation
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
SpaceX landed its 550th reusable fuel booster rocket after a late night Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Saturday.
From nuclear disaster to AI powerhouse: America’s Three Mile Island set to power the AI boom
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Three Mile Island, site of a past nuclear accident, is set to power the AI boom. A long-shuttered reactor is being rebuilt to provide reliable, round-the-clock electricity for surging AI data center demands. Microsoft has signed a power...
How a new algorithm predicts cell fate from just one genetic snapshot
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and specialize in the body. The study, which has been published in the journal PNAS, can provide important knowledge...
Femtosecond laser technique captures elusive atomic oxygen in water
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A never-before-seen image of individual oxygen atoms dissolved in water has been captured.
RocketLab sends Japanese communications satellite into orbit
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Rocket Lab has successfully launched an Electron technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Small Models, Big Rules: A New Way To Make AI Behave
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Science Blog
Historic Garden Discovers Its Ginkgo Isn't What It Thought
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Visitors to Nova Scotia's Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens might want to watch where they step. Staff there had long believed their ginkgo tree, planted in the early 1980s, was male. That mattered because male ginkgos are typically the...
Breast Cancer Screening Doesn’t Have To Be Annual
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Science Blog
Neutron star P13 shows dramatic X-ray variability linked to rotation velocity
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls onto the object and emits intense...
Supernova immersion model suggests Earth-like planets are more common in the universe
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a nearby supernova (the massive explosion of...
Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, they travel thousands of kilometers to land, traversing waters now polluted with plastics, from coastal runoff...
Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern Hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.
Watch Atlas V rocket launch 27 of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit early Dec. 15
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
Liftoff is scheduled for 3:49 a.m. ET on Monday (Dec. 15).
Device advances medicine towards a future that might see tiny robots sent into people’s bodies
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
We're nearer to robots rewiring damaged nerves, delivering medicines, analysing cells.
Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the right place, more water can be a big help.
Harvard gut discovery could change how we treat obesity and diabetes
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists found that certain molecules made by gut bacteria travel to the liver and help control how the body uses energy. These molecules change depending on diet, genetics, and shifts in the microbiome. Some even improved insulin...
Scientists discover nine new species of butterfly from South America stored at London's Natural History Museum
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis.
Biologists reveal ancient form of cell adhesion
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their environment. This mechanically stable adhesion enables the development of complex tissues and organs and is...
Scientists finally uncovered why the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long dry periods that gradually pushed its...
Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule becomes surrounded by a restless crowd of water molecules. Inside living cells, the picture is even more complex:...
Male bonobos use hidden clues to boost mating success
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are unreliable. Researchers tracking wild bonobos in the Congo discovered that males skillfully interpret a mix of...
A grad student’s wild idea triggers a major aging breakthrough
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Senescent “zombie” cells are linked to aging and multiple diseases, but spotting them in living tissue has been notoriously difficult. Researchers at Mayo Clinic have now taken an inventive leap by using aptamers—tiny, shape-shifting DNA...
Why Women Stop Pretending After 40
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Ellen Scherr christens a phase of life for women in midlife that makes use of the f-word, and those who find it offensive should understand she gives not a single f-word about that. Which is kind of the point. The phase is called the...
Cracking the mystery of heat flow in few-atoms thin materials
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to just a few nanometers in thickness,...
Long-hypothesized dynamic transition seen in deeply supercooled water for the first time
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle that has persisted for nearly three...
'The Expanse' at 10: the outer space drama that should have been as big as 'Game of Thrones'
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
It's one of the 21st century's best sci-fi shows. If only "The Expanse" had found the audience it deserved.
High-energy photons drive conversion of greenhouse gases into high-value chemicals, no catalyst needed
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Scientists have found a way to turn carbon dioxide and methane, the two most notorious greenhouse gases, into useful chemicals without any expensive catalysts, using only light.
Med Student's Ultrasound Demo Has a Surprise Benefit
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
The scan was supposed to be a routine classroom demo. Instead, it flagged a medical crisis that the patient-to-be never saw coming. Four weeks into her first year at Hofstra/Northwell's medical school on Long Island, 22-year-old Aria...
Natural compound supercharges treatment for aggressive leukemia
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Forskolin, a plant-derived compound, shows surprising potential against one of the most aggressive forms of leukemia. Researchers discovered that it not only stops cancer cells from growing but also makes them far more vulnerable to...
AI finds a hidden stress signal inside routine CT scans
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers used a deep learning AI model to uncover the first imaging-based biomarker of chronic stress by measuring adrenal gland volume on routine CT scans. This new metric, the Adrenal Volume Index, correlates strongly with cortisol...
Predictive framework for 2D materials puts low-cost, printable electronics on the horizon
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Imagine wearable health sensors, smart packaging, flexible displays, or disposable IoT controllers all manufactured like printed newspapers. The same technology could underpin communication circuits, sensors, and signal-processing...
December's overlooked meteor shower peaks next week — will the Ursids surprise us?
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
December's faint Ursid meteor shower returns under dark skies, offering a small chance of unexpected activity.
Astronomers watched a sleeping neutron star roar back to life
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray luminosity rose and fell by factors of hundreds while its rotation rate accelerated. These synchronized shifts suggest...
Webb finds a hidden atmosphere on a molten super-Earth
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet racing around its star in under 11 hours. Despite being blasted by intense radiation that should strip it bare,...
Data centers in space: Will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
Assuming Google does manage to launch a prototype in 2027, will it simply be a high-stakes technical experiment – or the dawning of a new era?
Why does alcohol always leave you thirsty? The science behind the dry mouth
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
Alcohol has a habit of leaving the body drier than it started. By interfering with hormones that regulate water balance, it increases fluid loss even as it’s being consumed, while its breakdown in the liver adds further strain. The...
'Fiddler on the Moon' documentary explores how Judaism might adapt as humanity reaches out into space
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
'No matter what your traditions are, someone is going to break them.'
Tories to scrap petrol car ban if they win next election
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
The Conservative Party leader says the policy is "destructive" and "economic self-harm".
ISRO’s BlueBird-6 launch rescheduled to December 21: Heaviest US satellite to boost global broadband in major Indo-US mission
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
ISRO's ambitious BlueBird-6 satellite launch, a significant Indo-US collaboration, is now set for December 21, 2025, after a slight reschedule. This massive satellite, featuring a large phased array antenna, promises direct-to-device...
Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites before making 550th SpaceX landing (video)
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. The first stage then made the company's 550th landing.
New quantum antenna reveals a hidden terahertz world
Sunday, December 14, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers at the University of Warsaw have unveiled a breakthrough method for detecting and precisely calibrating terahertz frequency combs using a quantum antenna made from Rydberg atoms. By combining atomic electrometry with a...