Category science

The Celestron Origin will have you taking crystal clear stunning pictures of deep sky objects in minutes.

Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.

The world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season.

Ashwagandha is all over TikTok. Some studies report benefits, but more research is needed.

Long-lasting, widespread heat and weather extremes may have caused the Great Dying extinction event 252 million years ago.

The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.

The growing “gateway to the underworld,” officially known as the Batagay megaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old.

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie watches a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows. It records what she looks at and for how long. The baby, about 6 months…

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts’ abdomens while they’re still alive.

When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make inherently racist assumptions about people from particular racial groups, even without explicitly knowing their race.