"This is a powerful demonstration of how AI can enhance the scientific return of archival datasets."

Quantum chaos describes chaotic classical dynamical systems in terms of quantum theory, but simulations of these systems are limited by computational resources. However, one team seems to have found a way by leveraging error mitigation and specialized circuit…

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

Scientists have created a highly detailed computational model of Jupiter's atmosphere to peer below its thick clouds.

One of the brightest stars in the night sky will vanish as seen from North America and Europe in a rare event.

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new way to structure light in custom, repeatable, three-dimensional patterns, all without the use of traditional optical elements like lens…

The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new research, I explore a different possibility: Rather than postulating new particles, I propose that perhaps gravity itself behaves dif…

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks of life may have formed long before Earth existed. Linda Lo…

Scientists settle a major evolutionary mystery as new research reveals the comb jelly, not the sea sponge, was the first animal to branch off on Earth

Millions of years ago, the Green River carved a path through the Uinta Mountains instead of flowing around the formation. Now, researchers have discovered how this could have happened.

Monday, Feb. 2, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a crew of astronauts around the moon.

This new map of Antarctica reveals something no one was supposed to see, and scientists can’t believe it’s real.

Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.

A tiny sea creature may have cracked the code to eternal youth, and scientists just found the cells that could make it possible for humans, too.

A massive cosmic structure hiding in plain sight may finally explain why galaxies near the Milky Way behave so strangely.

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up."

The second full moon of 2026 — the snow moon — rose after sunset on Sunday, Feb. 1, lighting up the night sky across the world. Here are the best photos.

Science News: Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have b.

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (National University of Río Negro, Argentina), the study reveals an unexp…

NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as Feb. 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the possibilities of space travel in their own work.

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.

A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely known as the "Asian Water Tower." This critical water source, which sustains agricultural irrigation, urban water supplies and ecolog…

This humongous fungus is the biggest organism in the world

See Earth's largest impact craters, including the ones tied to extinction events and rare geological formations.

A research team led by Prof. Yousung Jung of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) has developed an innovative AI-based technology that uses large language models (LLMs) to redesign new materials that were pr…

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.

Beneath Venus’s scorched surface, scientists may have found something massive—and it could rewrite planetary history.

A mysterious streak of light appeared over Wellington, New Zealand, on January 30, 2026.

In a study conducted by Dr. Mahdi Alirezazadeh and Dr. Hanan Bahranipoor, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, two exceptionally well-preserved fetal burials from Chaparabad, Iran, dating to the mid-5th millennium BC, were analyzed including burial L…

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region in Southern Australia is experiencing a nine-month toxic algae bloom that spans thousands of miles and has caused thousands of deaths…

In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons. So far, the Wigner crystal state remains sensitive to var…

Astronomers say that ancient almost impossibly massive "Little Red Dots" may be black holes trapped in "cocoons."

An old-school strength move used by farmers is quietly revolutionizing modern fitness and rehab. Trainers, doctors, and elite athletes are all turning to this brutally simple exercise for results machines can’t match.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Dr. Annemi…

An image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows its LED lights lighting up a hole it drilled into the surface of the rock.

‘Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Traditional processes used to discover new materials are complex, time-consuming, and costly, often requiring years of sustained effort. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated powerful capabilities in information processing, offerin…

The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, the swan.

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research argues that developing scientific tests for awareness could transform medicine, animal welfare, law, a…

A 512-million-year-old ecosystem, frozen in stone, reveals an explosive comeback after a mass extinction no one fully understood, until now.

Plant chemicals made more potent by insect pests are detoxified by the fungus.

Here's what to see in the February 2026 night sky.

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot uncovered in Ethiopia is shaking the foundations of human origins. Hidden for over a decade, this ancient find reveals a shocking twist in how early ancestors moved.

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust.

Rest of World News: For a long time, New Zealand’s ancient past felt incomplete. Bits and pieces here and there. A few fossils. Large gaps. Now, a cave near Waitomo on th.

Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity warps light in space. Once thought to exist only on paper, this effect has now been observed experimentally in a popular quantum material.…