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August 16, 2025
Science news this week: Black holes galore and blue whales that still sing - Aug. 16, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.Scientists find new ways to study delicate sea life from the deep - For centuries, sea creatures have been heaved up from the depths into the deadly air.
Bloodline: tracing the genetic code of the Waler horses - Bred to handle harsh terrain and weather, Walers are exceptionally tough horses.
August 15, 2025
You may not really be allergic to penicillin. Here's how to find out if you are. - As many as 1 in 5 Americans believe they have a penicillin allergy, but just a tiny fraction actually do.Researchers develop programmable 4D-printed metamaterials that thinks, changes, and performs multiple tasks - Doctor videos boost pediatric flu vaccination; malaria resistance spreads regionally; Meta restricts child-targeted AI; federal EV funding resumes with retail focus.
SpaceX aims to launch Starship Flight 10 test flight on Aug. 24 - SpaceX is targeting Aug. 24 for the 10th Flight Test for its Starship rocket, following delays from a pad accident and May's failed mission.
Acting as a Trojan Horse, Viruses Can Use Bacteria to Kill Tumors From the Inside - Engineered viruses using bacteria as a Trojan horse could be the next big thing in cancer treatment.
Blue Origin's 2nd New Glenn rocket launch will fly twin NASA Mars probes to space on Sep. 29 - Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket will launch NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission no earlier than (NET) Sep. 29.
Space Mice Babies Born From Frozen Stem Cells Give Hope for Human Fertility in the Cosmos - Learn about mice babies that were born from stem cells previously frozen on the International Space Station, which could one day lead to human reproduction in space.
SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near - "SpaceX can now proceed with Starship Flight 10 launch operations under its current license."
NASA-Developed Printable Metal Can Take the Heat - Until now, additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, of engine components was limited by the lack of affordable metal alloys that could withstand the extreme temperatures of spaceflight.
Medieval knight 'Lancelot' and his stunning stone tomb found under ice cream shop in Poland - Archaeologists found the body of a medieval knight underneath a tombstone that depicted him in full military regalia.
NASA wants new spacecraft to fly to hard-to-reach orbits around Earth and in deep space - NASA has awarded $1.4 million to six companies, to further their ideas about how to get vehicles farther into space cheaply and efficiently.
Early Accounts of Whales and Manatees May Have Inspired Mermaid Folklore - Learn more about early marine animal witness accounts that likely fed mermaid and other sea monster legends.
Russia to launch 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies on Aug. 20 to study spaceflight effects - Russia is readying its Bion-M No.
Astronomers Capture Rare Birth of Black Hole Activity - A supermassive black hole in the act of awakening from slumber haas been detected by a team of astronomers.
Scientists Use Earth's Shadow to Hunt for Alien Probes - For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals.
Comet's Water Reveals Clues About Life on Earth - A team of scientists have made a discovery that could help solve one of Earth's greatest mysteries, where did our planet's water come from?
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Could Intercept 3I/ATLAS as it Approaches Jupiter - arXiv:2507.21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of $53.56(\pm 0.45)$ million ${\rm km}$ ($0.358\pm 0.003$~au) from Jupiter on March 16, 2026.
How AI Could Prevent Satellite Collisions - Space is getting dangerously crowded but a new automated system could be the key to preventing catastrophic collisions that threaten our satellites and astronauts.
A Cosmic Noon Puzzle: Why Did Cosmic Noon Galaxies Emit So Many Cosmic Rays? - The Universe's early galaxies were engulfed in halos of high-energy cosmic rays.
China’s Crewed Lunar Lander Passes Key Test Milestone - China took a step closer to the Moon, with the first short test for their crewed lunar lander.
How Climate Change Will Reshape Space Weather's Impact on Satellites - Climate change isn't just transforming weather on Earth's surface, it’s also fundamentally altering how space weather affects the thousands of satellites orbiting our planet.
JPL Is Ready To Test Mars Samples - If They're Ever Returned - Taking a walk is great for inspiration.
New Lightsail Material Pushes Interstellar Probe Dream Closer - Any material used as a light sail is bound by very restrictive physical requirements.
The Eye of Sauron And An Optical Illusion Solve A Cosmic Puzzle - A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object.
When Dwarfs Dance, Do Galaxies Merge? - New research shows how the 'dancing' behaviour of dwarf satellite galaxies can predict mergers between their hosts.
A Simple Instrument Could Find Martian DNA - If It Exists - Mars still holds the promise of being one of the first places in the solar system humanity will colonize.
Mystery of the "Little Red Dots" May Finally Be Solved - Deep in the darkness, tiny red specks of light have been driving astronomers to distraction.
The JWST Shows Us That TRAPPIST-1d Is Not As Earth-Like As We Hoped - The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our Solar System because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star where liquid water on its surface is theoretically possible.
Researchers Simulate What a Black Hole "Shadow" Looks Like - Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists sharpen their understanding of the environment beyond a black hole’s "shadow," material just outside its event horizon.
Moonquakes Will Pose Risks To Long-term Lunar Base Structures - Our Moon is a seismically active world and its long history of quakes could affect the safety of permanent base structures there.
The Vibrational Lives of Black Holes - When black holes are disrupted by things like infalling matter or gravitational waves, they vibrate like a bell struck with a clapper.
New Theory Points to the Universe's Greatest Fireworks Show - What if the universe began with a fireworks show?
Using bacteria to sneak viruses into tumors - Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team.
Human Rating and NASA-STD-3001 - Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Minnesota - NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and
Unlocking the power within: Recycling lithium batteries for a sustainable future - ECU research shows lithium battery recycling could create $3.1 billion industry while reducing emissions by 61% compared to mining.
X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole' - Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave.
Incredible, first-of-its-kind video shows human embryo implanting in real time - Scientists have captured a video showing the implantation of a human embryo for the first time, using a laboratory model of a uterus.
2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were 'forward planning' 600,000 years earlier than thought - Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.
The Geological Roots of Fertility and Slavery: How Glaciers Shaped Newtown’s Productive Soils, Farmland, and Slavery. - Glacially rich soils made Newtown a farming powerhouse, sustaining crops—and slavery—in one of New York’s most fertile communities.
Giant, cosmic 'Eye of Sauron' snapped staring directly at us in stunning 15-year time-lapse photo - Researchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the magnetic mysteries of a "blazar" billions of light-years from Earth.
Robots awkwardly race, fight and flop around in China's first World Humanoid Robot Games - The first World Humanoid Robot Games are underway in China, with robots competing against each other in track and field, soccer, kickboxing and other events.
Canada's 1st commercial spaceport is officially under construction. When will it open for launches? - Canada's first commercial rocket launch is set for liftoff as early as the end of August as NordSpace begins building its new spaceport on the country's east coast.
San Andreas fault could unleash an earthquake unlike any seen before, study of deadly Myanmar quake suggests - A study of March's Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don't necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger quake than any seen before.
Beyond Endurance: How Dr. BJ Miller Helped Chris Hemsworth Face Pain in LIMITLESS - Chris Hemsworth, with Dr. BJ Miller, explores pain's complexities in LIMITLESS, blending ancient healing with modern science for better understanding.
Every original 'Star Trek' character who has appeared in 'Strange New Worlds' - Going boldly where someone has gone before!
Countdown to Space Station’s Silver Jubilee with Silver Research - This November marks a quarter century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station, which has served as a springboard for developing a
A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolved - Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.
Opinion: RFK Jr.’s Silent Surrender to Big Food Is Peak Hypocrisy - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to compromise his anti-food industry stance, failing to confront ultraprocessed foods and pesticides in his new strategy.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 172 — Earth on Mars - On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden DeBenedictis to discuss how terraforming Mars might work.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 171 — What's an UNOOSA? - On Episode 171 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Isaac Arthur are joined by Rick Jenet to discuss the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
Astronaut trades meditation for starry sky views in orbit | On the International Space Station Aug. 11-15, 2025 - The members of Expedition 73-"B" settle in and get busy conducting science research on board the International Space Station.
'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species - As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.
Spacewalk Pop-Up - Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed as he left the airlock hatch during a spacewalk on Jan. 13, 2017.
Whose moon is it anyway? A matching space quiz - In this quiz, you’ll test your cosmic knowledge by matching each moon to the planet it calls home.
Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China’s first drone ship - Why is China's heavy-lift Long March 5B able to launch only 10 Guowang satellites at a time?
NASA Seeks Proposals for 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge - NASA now is accepting proposals from student teams for a contest to design, build, and test rovers for Moon and Mars exploration through Sept. 15.
Meet 'lite intermediate black holes,' the supermassive black hole's smaller, much more mysterious cousin - There's a gap in black hole masses, and experts believe here is where 'lite intermediate black holes' reside.
China builds record-breaking floating wind turbine — it could change the face of renewable energy - Floating offshore wind turbines open a whole new playing field for energy companies, which have so far had to stick to shallow waters.
Best budget star projectors under $40 — Affordable gadgets for kids and adults, tried and tested - These are the best budget star projectors you can buy in every category, from Astronaut Starry Sky and Cadrim to Dinosaur Egg Galaxy.
Chemists synthesise new ‘bracelet-like’ form of carbon - For the first time since 1990, researchers have synthesised a new form of molecular carbon which can be studied on the lab bench under ambient conditions.
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder - For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors.
This baby star's big explosion fired back: 'Nature is far more complex than humans think' - Astronomers discovered a star-triggered explosion shaping its dusty disk, revealing a far more chaotic and intense environment than previously thought.
James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects. Are they galaxies or something else? - Deep-field images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed 300 unusually energetic early galaxy candidates, offering new insights into how the universe formed and evolved over 13 billion years ago.
Satellites watch France's largest wildfire in 75 years burn an area larger than Paris - Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.
Milky Way and zodiacal light glow above telescopes in Chile | Space photo of the day for Aug. 15, 2025 - The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided - The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling.
Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy - This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45, which lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale).
DAILY DOSE: Doctor-created reminders nudge kids’ flu shots—but not adults; Meta reverses rules that let chatbots be creepy with kids - Doctor videos boost pediatric flu vaccination; malaria resistance spreads regionally; Meta restricts child-targeted AI; federal EV funding resumes with retail focus.
How human protein ACE2 modulation could stop the entry of coronavirus - Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike protein.
Scientists may have found the tiny DNA switch that made us human - Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a small but powerful section of DNA, called HAR123, that could help explain what makes the human brain so unique.
Graphite's pore size distribution offers new clues to predicting nuclear reactor material failure - Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today.
Ghostly 'spiral' photobombs Perseid meteors over several US states — and experts are unsure what caused it - The ghostly light, which was triggered by a rocket reentry, sailed across the night sky as skywatchers across the U.S. looked up to see "shooting stars" streak across the heavens.
What if we've been thinking about dark matter all wrong, scientist wonders - Two exotic new theories suggest dark matter could be either made from tiny black holes or formed by Hawking radiation at the cosmic horizon.
Building and breaking plastics with light: Chemists rethink plastic recycling - What if recycling plastics were as simple as flicking a switch?
Sweat-activated yarn batteries: the next big thing for workout wear? - Soft, breathable and skin-conformable electronic textiles could one day provide wearable device users with the ability to monitor their health and physical activity with unparalleled ease.
Strange spotted rock on Mars could reveal signs of ancient life - A curious red Martian rock nicknamed Sapphire Canyon has scientists excited, as its spotted appearance hints at possible organic origins.
Three Whale Rock: Thailand's 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they're floating in a sea of trees - Three Whale Rock is a geological formation and tourist attraction in Thailand's Phu Sing Forest Park that looks remarkably like a small family of whales.
Clearest Mars images yet reveal mystery rock and ancient terrain in stunning detail - Captured at a location called “Falbreen,” this 360-degree view mosaic was stitched together 96 images that were acquired May 26, 2025.
The surprising ant strategy that could transform robotics - Weaver ants have cracked a teamwork puzzle that humans have struggled with for over a century — instead of slacking off as their group grows, they work harder.
Drones use ‘tap and go’ approach to monitor whales - A group of international researchers has developed a drone device that can quickly apply monitoring tags to whales whilst avoiding human interference.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4627-4628: A Ridge Stop in the Boxworks - Earth planning date: Monday Aug. 11, 2025
Hubble spots a nearly invisible galaxy hiding in plain sight - Hubble has captured the faint beauty of NGC 45, a spiral galaxy in Cetus whose glowing pink star-forming clouds reveal hidden activity.
August 14, 2025
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover just learned how to multitask - Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever.NASA Seeks Industry Feedback on Fission Surface Power - As part of the agency’s initiative to return humanity to the Moon and eventually send the first astronaut – an American – to Mars, NASA is surveying industry
At 36 Miles Long, This Conceptual Spaceship Could Carry 2,400 People Into Interstellar Space - Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.
AI May Soon Detect Laryngeal Cancer Just by Listening to Your Voice - A quick voice check could one day become as routine as taking your temperature, helping doctors detect voice box cancer.
Was it cooked in space? A space food-themed quiz! - In this quiz, you’ll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine.
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon — a space lawyer explains why, and what the law has to say - Recently, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reportedly suggested a U.S. reactor would be operational on the moon by 2030.
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Stalagmites Offer Clues to Maya Mystery - Chemical fingerprints point to reason for collapse
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We Now Have a New Understanding of How Dopamine Works, Which Could Lead to Better Treatments - Learn more about the new study focusing on how the brain can send targeted bursts of dopamine, leading to advanced treatments for those with Parkinson's and drug addiction.
300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Suggest Ancient Humans Also Ate Veggies, Not Just Meat - Learn more about the discovery of ancient tools that indicate early humans used them to dig up and harvest vegetables for their diets.
NASA's new sun-studying mission 'PUNCH' attains its final form in Earth orbit - The four spacecraft of NASA's PUNCH mission have successfully locked in place in Earth orbit.
TRAPPIST-1d isn't the Earth-like planet scientists had hoped it to be, according to JWST data - As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give up hope for an Earth-like atmosphere on one of the other worlds in the system.
Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole - With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.
John Cayley: Rewriting the Future of Language in the Age of AI - John Cayley, a pioneer in digital language art, critiques AI's influence on language, emphasizing lived experience over modeled data in literature.
DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible. - Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA.
A real-life Pandora? Newfound 'disappearing' planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar movies - The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.
US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test - The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed an initial key test.
Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used - The Inca Empire hung by a thread—literally.
Discovery of 250 'mini galaxies' could help scientists pin down the nature of dark matter - Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.
Would you board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri? - Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars?
A Brain MRI Could Predict How Quickly Your Body Is Actually Aging - Learn more about the Dunedin Study and how an algorithm could predict your biological age just by looking at an image of your brain from an MRI.
Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own - VA Tech experiment was inspired by Death Valley's mysterious "sailing stones" at Racetrack Playa.
Brain-computer interface one step closer to decoding inner speech - Scientists have successfully decoded the silent monologue in people’s heads in research which could help people who are unable to audibly speak.
Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere - Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts.
Chemistry LLM developed for faster drug discovery - Southwest Research Institute scientists and engineers have developed a custom large language model (LLM) to accelerate drug design and discovery.
Blue Origin pitches new 'Mars Telecommunications Orbiter' for Red Planet missions (video) - Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, which the company says could aid future NASA missions to the Red Planet.
Trump signs executive order to boost commercial space — and shift NASA's balance of power - The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport construction and better support emerging in-space industries.
Ancient predatory whale with big eyes and razor-sharp teeth was 'deceptively cute' - Researchers have unveiled the fossils of a juvenile ancient whale that hunted off ancient Australia with large forward-facing eyes and razor-sharp teeth.
This AI-powered Oral-B Genius is our all-time best electric toothbrush — currently discounted by $120, the lowest ever price in this Amazon deal - Treat your teeth to the best electric toothbrush we've ever tested, which is now on sale for 60% off, and an overall $120 saving
Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry - Cornell chemists have developed a way to use electrochemistry, a sustainable technique, to make chiral molecules, which occur in mirrored pairs, like human hands.
SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 flight from Florida (video) - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.
I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally got an 'Alien' Xenomorph (photo) - As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain.
Best headlamps 2025 — Lightweight, bright and long-lasting - Whether you're navigating remote trails, photographing the stars or bird watching after dark, these headlamps offer dependable performance when it counts.
115 million-year-old dinosaur tracks unearthed in Texas after devastating floods - While clearing debris from the devastating floods in Texas in July, volunteers uncovered 15 large dinosaur footprints thought to belong to a formidable prehistoric predator.
Why Kirk's main character energy is bad news for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' - The future captain of the Enterprise eclipses his co-stars every time he appears in "Strange New Worlds."
Fibre-optic cables reveal how icebergs and tsunamis drive glacier loss - As glaciers meet the sea and melt, massive blocks of ice ‘calve’ away and crash into the ocean.
Don't miss the moon rendezvous with the Pleiades in the early morning sky Aug. 16–17 - The moon will drift towards the Pleiades and Uranus in the early hours of Aug. 16-17.
Thin films, big science: Chemists expand imaging possibilities with new X-ray material - Most people picture a doctor checking for a broken bone when they think of an X-ray.
SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft approaches the ISS | Space photo of the day for Aug. 14, 2025 - SpaceX's Crew-11 mission delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Astronomers find bizarre 'Cosmic Grapes' galaxy in the early universe. Here's why that's a big deal. - A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe.
This device creates rainbows of sound - A plastic structure separates the pitches in mixed sounds like white noise, much like a rainbow spreads out colors of light.
The disappearing planet next door has astronomers intrigued - NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth.
Archaeology student finds rare ninth-century gold 'within the first 90 minutes' of her first excavation - An archaeologist in training discovered a rare medieval gold object in northwestern England during her first excavation.
Hidden fault beneath Canada could trigger massive earthquake after 12,000 years of silence - Advanced satellite and lidar mapping has uncovered signs that the Tintina fault in Canada's Yukon may be primed for a powerful earthquake.
Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today - Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe.
Bizarre ancient creatures unearthed in the Grand Canyon - A groundbreaking fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exquisitely preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unprecedented glimpse into early life more than 500 million years ago.
Scientists stunned by colossal formations hidden under the North Sea - Beneath the North Sea, scientists have uncovered colossal sand formations, dubbed “sinkites,” that have mysteriously sunk into lighter sediments, flipping the usual geological order.
Unprecedented climate shocks are changing the Great Lakes forever - Extreme heat waves and cold spells on the Great Lakes have more than doubled since the late 1990s, coinciding with a major El Niño event.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California with new batch of Starlink satellites (video) - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Aug. 14, 2025.
Ancient whale discovered in Victoria writes new chapter in giant evolution - A whale with large eyes, razor sharp teeth and a slimline body for hunting has been found on the southeast coast of Australia.
AI could soon detect early voice box cancer from recordings - A recent study has found that abnormalities of the vocal folds caused by the early stages of laryngeal cancer can alter the acoustics of men’s voices.
How cats with dementia could help crack the Alzheimer’s puzzle - Cats can naturally develop dementia with brain changes strikingly similar to Alzheimer’s disease in humans, including toxic amyloid-beta buildup and loss of synapses.
Injectable “skin in a syringe” could heal burns without scars - Scientists in Sweden have developed a groundbreaking “skin in a syringe” — a gel packed with live cells that can be applied directly to wounds or even 3D-printed into skin grafts.
Watch: Meteor shower seen in skies above UK - The astronomical event was captured on camera at North York Moors National Park on 13 August.
Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches - The head of the FAA's commercial spaceflight division will become a political appointee.
Hot, dry summers bring new 'firewave' risk to UK cities, scientists warn - Rising temperatures are increasing the chances of multiple wildfires at the same time, researchers say.
August 13, 2025
The surprising brain chemistry behind instant friendships - UC Berkeley scientists found oxytocin is key for quickly forming strong friendships, but less critical for mate bonds.AI finds hidden safe zones inside a fusion reactor - Scientists have developed a lightning-fast AI tool called HEAT-ML that can spot hidden “safe zones” inside a fusion reactor where parts are protected from blistering plasma heat.
These Two Ancient Human Species Lived in Tandem Around 2.8 Million Years Ago - Learn more about the handful of tooth fossils that complicate the history of humans in northeastern Ethiopia.
They Came for Climate Science. Then the Storms Came. - The administration’s cuts to climate research are destroying decades of science—and life-saving forecasts
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