42+ min ago   (1232+ words) The Tasmanian tiger’s unusual skull suggests it snapped at smaller prey rather than overpowering livestock like a wolf. (CREDIT: Vera Weisbecker et al, Nature Communications) For generations, the thylacine carried the reputation of a wolf in stripes. Its dog-like head,…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1208+ words) Radio telescopes on the Moon’s far side could detect ancient hydrogen and reveal the universe before the first stars formed. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The far side of the Moon is a battered landscape of mountains, basins and overlapping craters, strikingly different…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1201+ words) Experiments show strong stellar magnetic fields can stop coronal mass ejections, helping explain why astronomers rarely detect them. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Some of the most active stars in the galaxy appear capable of producing enormous eruptions, yet astronomers rarely see those…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1083+ words) A space telescope built to see the universe on an enormous scale has left Earth. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space…...

2+ day, 42+ min ago   (1355+ words) Drops can become electrically charged as they slide across surfaces. If they then fall onto a coating—such as on a car—the coating can be corroded by the drop’s electrical discharge and permanently damaged. (CREDIT: Katharina Maisenbacher / MPI-P) A…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (962+ words) A powerful pulsed magnet expands the shock layer around spacecraft models, advancing a possible new approach to surviving reentry heat. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A spacecraft plunging into an atmosphere faces an environment violent enough to heat the gas around its surface…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (794+ words) A tiny piece of protein that first appeared in early placental mammals has spent roughly 160 million years changing its ability to attack bacteria. By rebuilding extinct versions, scientists have now watched that immune defense develop step by step. Researchers at…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (994+ words) Scientists created living fungal fabric that can repair itself, repel water, produce colors, block UV light and biodegrade in soil. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) Most materials stop changing once they leave the factory. A new fungal textile takes almost…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (899+ words) Information fills hard drives, crosses computer networks and describes the properties of physical systems. One physicist argues it may also have something far more surprising: measurable mass. Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth has proposed an experiment designed…...

6+ day, 42+ min ago   (1005+ words) A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has developed an implantable, battery-free pacemaker that’s charged by a patient’s heartbeat. (CREDIT: UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health) A pacemaker inside the heart has very little room for anything extra. Yet…...