"Core on deck!"For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment drilled from the seafloor beneath ... More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) has forced its way into the public consciousness thanks to the advent of powerful new AI chatbots and image generators. But the field has a long history stretching back to the dawn of computing. Given how fundamental AI could be in... More »
The SummaryWildire smoke is spreading across North America, threatening air quality across the Pacific Northwest.Almost 950 active fires were burning in Canada as of Friday. Some fires have forced people to evacuate their homes, and one blaze caused widespread... More »
In 2022, scientists spotted a strange signal coming from the most powerful cosmic explosion ever detected.Now, scientists say they know what made it: matter and antimatter colliding and annihilating each other at 99.9% the speed of light.The cosmic explosion w... More »
A gallery of striking ochre paintings drawn onto massive rock faces offers insight into the close relationship between humans and animals living in the Amazon thousands of years ago.The artwork is located on rocky outcroppings at Cerro Azul in Serranía de la L... More »
The evolution of the first animals on land, 500 million years ago, has been revealed. The ancestors of millipedes, called euthycarcinoids, evolved in warm tidal nursery pools from juvenile arthropods. Individuals that acquired sexual maturity early and survive... More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.The NASA Perseverance rover may have found a pivotal clue that’s central to its mission on Mars: geological evidence... More »
A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flightSpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth and most ambitious Starship test flight yet. While the four previous flights have all aimed for a splashdown in the sea, this test will b... More »
Bacteria that live inside parasitic wasps eliminate all the male wasps in the population. Now, scientists have discovered one way they do it.Long ago, the bacteria borrowed sex-determining genes from other insects, and now use them to crank out proteins that t... More »
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASAUsing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST),... More »
With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.NASA officials on Friday said they expected congestion at the International Space Station ... More »
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Helioviewer.orgOn Tuesday (July 23), Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft witnessed an extremely powerful X14 class solar flare erupt from the far... More »