Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social colonies. A massive new analysis suggests that genetics alone can’t explain it—and the real secret may lie in other traits unique to these insects., Read MoreContinue Reading
NASA’s Boeing 777 returns to the agency’s Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme. NASA/James Blair NASA’s Boeing 777 shows off a new paint job in this Aug. 11, 2026, photo. The B777 was acquired to replace and extend the capabilities of the NASA DC-8, which was retiredContinue Reading
Explore This Section Science Helio and You: July… Home Framework for Heliophysics Education About Helio Big Idea 1.1 Helio Big Idea 1.2 Helio Big Idea 1.3 Helio Big Idea 2.1 Helio Big Idea 2.2 Helio Big Idea 2.3 Helio Big Idea 3.1 Helio Big Idea 3.2 Helio Big Idea 3.3Continue Reading
William “Bill” Swann, one of the first-generation pilots at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory (predecessor to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland), prepares to board a McDonnell F2H-2B airplane on Nov. 6, 1956. Credit: NASA Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began inContinue Reading
Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar system. NASA scientists Bertrand Mennesson and Vanessa Bailey explain how Roman’s wide view will spot as many as 100,000 new exoplanets in a galactic census that will change how we understandContinue Reading
Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction. (Image credit: Jennifer Adler)Continue Reading
Astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA are pictured training for a spacewalk at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas. NASA NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:29 a.m. EDT outside the InternationalContinue Reading
Astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA pose for their official portraits while wearing spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to lastContinue Reading
California is now the only state in the country to require low-resistance tires on cars.Continue Reading
A Canadian opinion writer who’s argued in the Toronto Sun and other outlets that politicians should embrace data centres works for a U.S.-based anti-regulation organization with close ties to the AI industry. Jay Goldberg —identified by the Toronto Sun as the “North American affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Center”—wrote a lateContinue Reading
A key line of defense against the “catastrophic outcomes” of lawsuits that successfully force the oil and gas industry to pay for climate damages is the current Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, according to a lawyer who served in the first The Traitor administration. “If we had a different Supreme Court,Continue Reading
Nature invented biodegradable plastic long before humans did—and animals may have been feeding on it for hundreds of millions of years. Researchers discovered that dozens of animal species possess enzymes capable of breaking down microbial bioplastics called PHAs, a talent once thought to belong only to microorganisms., Read MoreContinue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue Reading