Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.

Using data from the Japan-led XRISM observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s stellar wind captured by its compact companion (triggering X-ray flares) for the first time.

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow.

Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadn’t been roasted in a fireball) back to Earth for the first time. But those samples, like the OSIRIS-REx sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu, sometimes provide more questions than answers. A new paper, published in Science Advances from researchers at ETH Zurich and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, highlights one of those questions - why Bennu appears to have been born in both the inner and outer solar system - and a possible answer to it.

A single oxygen-containing group makes RNA surprisingly promising.

No sailing experience required.

Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari Your brain begins discarding an unfamiliar face within 72 hours of meeting someone. But two groups of people experience faces completely differently. One cannot recognise their own family. The other never forgets a stranger they glimpsed once a decade ago. Both conditions reveal something fundamental about how face memory actually works.

The system can propose biological questions, design experiments and send robots to test them.

Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots.

From chuckling beavers to fat bears to sassy orangutans, this year's finalists bring the laughs.

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space telescope is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, called Probe Explorers, within the agency’s longstanding Explorers Program.

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

The planet Mars is known for its massive dust storms, dust devils, and two large polar ice caps, with its north polar cap being one of the Red Planet’s most striking features. Comprised of water ice, the north polar cap not only holds potential for being a source of water for future human missions, but it also helps researchers’ piece together past climates on Mars. But an ongoing debate within the scientific community is the ice-dust relationship at the north polar cap, specifically how much dust comprises the north polar cap compared to the much larger amount of water ice.

Did we mention cities are changing great tits?

Many of the coins have fused together after 1,000 years underground.

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

mumblog.org · Lila Sjöberg Your teenager is not choosing to be distant the way an adult would. Their brain is being rewired, the prefrontal cortex is the last region to mature, and the pulling away from parents is neurologically programmed. Lila Sjöberg explains the teenage brain and why staying present matters more than it looks like it does.

Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies that indicate that a spacecraft could identify evidence of life much more easily than previously thought.

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

Two studies suggest Saturn's icy moon could support an ancient form of metabolism.

Backpack defeated Bear #910 to take the title.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari On a hot July afternoon in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is approximately 15 centimetres taller than it was in January. It is also leaning. Both are measurable, both are documented, and neither is a metaphor. Marco Bellinari explains the physics and the history behind the most famous iron structure in the world.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari People who talk less are perceived as more intelligent. The research behind this is uncomfortable because it is not a compliment to quiet people. It is a cognitive bias that operates on everyone regardless of what they know about the person they are judging. Here is the mechanism.

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang is hypothesized to have occurred, kickstarting our universe and eventually life on our small, blue world. While the Big Bang has yet to be directly observed, scientists have worked tirelessly to piece together the events that happened immediately after the Big Bang, specifically the first billion years or less, with the goal of gaining insight into the how the first stars, and potentially planets, formed and evolved.

After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.

Goodbye, Bucky Dent and Bear #132. You were very worthy bears.

Ancient ink containing lead could make some of Vesuvius’ charred books far easier to read.