The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a ‘switchback’ in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the...

The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."

Franklin's lab notes show she grasped the significance of her DNA images, according to a new essay.

Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics beh...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to Anne Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literatu...

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Did this mysterious carved beast — the most common object on the Pictish standing stones — ever actually live?

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts.

Learn about the scientific and social concepts associated with renewable and non-renewable energy and the environment. This presentation from GMU Professor Dr. Harold A. Geller...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. This follows a busy in-space commissioning p...

Is the moral panic surrounding artificial intelligence justified?

Wellness influencers promise to sell you supplements to reduce your cortisol, and thus reduce your weight — even though it doesn't work that way.

Fake prints, bodies, and films won't destroy the Bigfoot legend, even though they are ubiquitous. Hoaxes just make the cryptid more cryptic, and controversial.

Tensors are used all over math and science to reveal hidden geometric truths. What are they?

Startup wields subterranean lightning strikes to conjure the gas

The synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket could slash travel time to Mars

Does a huge, hairy, ape-like creature roam the swamps of Louisiana?

Industry is already short of skilled engineering personnel.

RoboBall can go anywhere on the moon, as long as it’s mostly downhill

Four men in an Air National Guard helicopter had a terrifying UFO encounter in the skies above Ohio.

Burnham said "there is no way that we can see its demise, and it won't happen under my Government".

A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say.

Aryash Shyam sits down with Dr. John Eric Goff, a physicist from Purdue University, to explore the science of a soccer ball, from drag and spin to the air it fights.

The synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket could slash travel time to Mars

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

The true origin and purpose of Peru's famous Nazca Lines.

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting the decision – and they’re only getting more passionate

An analysis of new awards suggests that as of 26 August 2026, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued 57% fewer awards in the astronomical sciences in the current fiscal year compared to the ...

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The

Wildsam chats with author Megan Eaves-Egenes about how her new memoir inspires readers to connect with the dark in new ways.

We dive into the Skeptoid mailbag to find your best listener feedback.

In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.

While space nuclear programs are “having a moment,” industry officials say they face near-term challenges as well as longer-term concerns.