Planet Earth Climate change 'Uncharted territory': Record high ocean temperatures confirmed for June as El Niño strengthens its grip Global sea surface temperatures reached record highs for June as a ...
Space Astronomy James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan A new study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both ...
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps. Now, without unrolling them, researchers have virtually read two of them —‬ ...
Space Astronomy Strawberry Moon 2026: Tonight's full moon is the lowest, and one of the smallest 'micromoons' all year June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest ...
Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste ‪—‬ the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland's entire hydroelectric power system, scientists say. This ...
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The band, called a Kelvin wave, marks a swell of higher-than-average sea levels that stretches hundreds of miles along the equator. The anomaly is caused by warmer waters linked to El Niño — the warm ...
However, DNA from Neanderthals is rare, and high-quality genomes are especially uncommon; until the new study, only four were available, three of which came from Russia, at the edge of the ...
Archaeology Skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda, one of the most powerful rulers in medieval Europe, unearthed in Barcelona — along with several others who bore unexplained stab wounds In honor of the ...
Planet Earth Rivers & Oceans Collapse of key Atlantic currents may be held off by newly-discovered back-up system, study finds Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but ...
The microplate could be focusing seismic energy in a straight line in a region under the Alaska Range of mountains, potentially contributing to large earthquakes and the development of small volcanoes ...
For a century, experts dismissed a series of parallel red lines discovered in a Welsh cave as a phenomenon of nature rather than human-made rock art. But a new study shows the lines are a rare example ...
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