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JWST spies hints of a neutron star left behind by supernova 1987A

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann     Within the dusty cloud left behind by supernova 1987A, the most famous stellar explosion in modern history, astronomers have found compelling →

Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first time

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry.     In →

Your unique smell can provide clues about how healthy you are

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​conversation​​​     Hundreds of chemicals stream from our bodies into the air every second. These chemicals release into the air easily as they have high vapour pressures, →

This Stone Age wall may have led Eurasian reindeer to their doom

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​science news​​​ By Anna Gibbs If this underwater wall could talk, it might reveal that it once helped Stone Age Europeans hunt reindeer. Submerged about 20 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea →

How to build an internet on Mars

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science news By Payal Dhar When astronauts land on Mars, a couple of decades from now, perhaps, they’ll need to find a way to communicate — with each other, with equipment on and around the planet, →

A new device let a man sense temperature with his prosthetic hand

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​science news By Simon Makin A new device makes it possible for a person with an amputation to sense temperature with a prosthetic hand. The technology is a step toward prosthetic limbs that restore →

How ‘Our Moon’ shaped life on Earth and human history

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​science news​​​ By Shi En Kim Science journalist Rebecca Boyle has an intergenerational connection with the moon. Her grandfather Pfc. John J. Corcoran was involved in the 1943 Battle of Tarawa on →

Here’s why blueberries are blue

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​science news​​​ By Erin Garcia de Jesús The secret to a blueberry’s hue is in the structure of its wax coat. Waxy coverings on blue-colored fruits such as blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum), grapes →

Where are U.S. earthquakes most likely? A new map shows the hazard risks

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science news By Nikk Ogasa Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. →

An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5 million years ago

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​science news​​​ By Katherine Kornei Around 2.5 million years ago, an asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica. The evidence comes from a chemical analysis of more than 100 tiny pieces of rock →

What inner speech is, and why philosophy is waking up to it

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​conversation​​​ It is quite rare for philosophers to start investigating a new area, and a lot of the questions they explore have been around since ancient times. However, there is something they →

Bacteria that can make humans sick could survive on Mars

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann Future interplanetary explorers beware: Hitchhiking bacteria brought to Mars on human bodies might not only survive the harsh conditions on the Red Planet’s surface but →

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