WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’ 2025-09-08
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. 2025-09-08
A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious wit 2025-09-08
A study of plastic bottles washed up on the Pacific coast of Latin America has identified a double problem—a mass of local waste combined with long-tr 2025-09-08
New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ever seen in the universe. 2025-09-08
The nasal spray vaccine FluMist can now be ordered online and shipped to your door. 2025-09-08
Procedural hurdles yet again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution. 2025-09-08
With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as w 2025-09-08
For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad? 2025-09-08
According to state health officials, a measles outbreak that started in an undervaccinated community and killed two children is now over. 2025-09-08
The 500-million-year-old fossil, containing a species named in honor of the krayt dragons in Star Wars, is a much larger ancestor of phallic marine wo 2025-09-08
Two years ago, Earth was hit by the most energetic neutrino in history. Scientists thought it might be a measurement error, but a new study has confir 2025-09-08
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.” 2025-09-08
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years. 2025-09-08
In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds. 2025-09-08