Science & Engineering
The unsettling possibility raised by quantum gravity is that time may not be a…
The unsettling possibility in quantum gravity is not just that our clocks might be inaccurate.
Earth & Life
Around 640,000 years ago, the ground beneath Yellowstone blasted out more than…
Park rangers at Yellowstone field a question that catches first-time visitors off guard: where is the volcano?
Science & Engineering
The universe appears to be expanding faster than our current model predicts
The Hubble tension is not a disagreement about whether the universe is expanding.
Science & Engineering
The blue whale is bigger than any dinosaur science has confirmed, and yet it is not…
The blue whale is not just the largest animal alive today. By mass, it is almost certainly the largest animal science has ever confirmed, outweighing even the greatest dinosaurs known from the fossil record.
Science & Engineering
AI feels weightless, but it's thirsty: UC Riverside researchers estimated training…
A chatbot reply arrives as text on a screen, with nothing about it to suggest weight, heat, or water, yet the most quoted number in the debate over AI's environmental cost runs the other way.
Science & Engineering
A Central African frog fights off predators by driving the sharp bones of its own…
The claws are not made of the usual material. They are naked bone, hidden under the skin, that the frog forces outward through the soft tissue of its own foot when something grabs it.
Science & Engineering
Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, in the middle of northern…
Aphelion lands in the heat of July every year. Why summer still feels like summer says almost everything about what actually drives the seasons.
Science & Engineering
We think of Mount Everest as the ultimate mountain, but Olympus Mons on Mars rises…
Mount Everest has become the human shorthand for height. It is the mountain people name when they want to say that something has reached the limit of what Earth can offer.
Science & Engineering
Sharks are roughly 450 million years old
To say that sharks are older than trees sounds like one of those comparisons made for effect.
Science & Engineering
In June 2026, China pulled 34 universities, institutes and startups into a single…
China has formalized its push into very low Earth orbit, establishing a national alliance of 34 universities, research institutes and commercial space…
Science & Engineering
When the Soviet Union launched Laika aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957, the world was told…
On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a small stray dog named Laika aboard Sputnik 2, making her the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
Science & Engineering
Finnish researchers tracked babies napping outdoors at minus 5°C and found they…
Across Finland, Sweden and Norway, parents have parked prams in sub-zero air for nearly a century in the belief that babies sleep longer and breathe cleaner outside than in. The physiology of cold-air sleep, croup, and the Nordic outdoor-napping tradition.
Science & Engineering
A Chinese HPHT press can grow a one-carat diamond chemically identical to a mined…
Inside a Chinese cubic press, graphite is squeezed at 50,000 atmospheres and 1,500 degrees Celsius for two weeks, producing a one-carat diamond chemically identical to a mined stone — and collapsing a price the De Beers cartel had defended since 1888.
Earth & Life
Two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela about half a minute apart
Two major earthquakes struck northern Venezuela about 32 seconds apart. The rapid sequence may have compounded structural damage, alongside shallow source depths, local soils, resonance and differences in building vulnerability.
Space & Missions
Pranim Limbo, a citizen scientist inspecting deep radio images from a remote…
The collaboratory has produced peer-reviewed work before. As Space Daily previously reported, the same network identified a giant double-ring radio galaxy halfway across the universe earlier this year, also through LoTSS.
Earth & Life
In January 2025, the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded hid a second signal…
The signal arrived at LIGO on January 14, 2025. Two laser beams running down 4-kilometer vacuum tubes in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana…