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Energy, climate, and research, with the vocabulary kept honest.
ScienceWire · NASA
City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detro
ScienceWire · NASA
Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:40 a.m.
ScienceWire · BBC News
The pollution caused the death of brown and migratory sea trout in the Inler river.
ScienceWire · NASA
This Hubble image features the sparkling collection of stars named Messier 30 (M30), also called NGC 7099.
ScienceWire · NASA
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 5 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograp
ScienceWire · NASA
The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Social media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real? Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample why so many of us struggle to
ScienceWire · NASA
On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11351-4 Hydrogen Derivatives Enable Cost-Effective Carbon Neutrality in China
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11336-3 Opportunistically Detecting Signs of Hypertension on a Consumer Smartwatch
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03568-0 Policies designed to keep women in the workforce could be entrenching gendered parenting roles.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Young people and women most at risk, study finds, as researchers call for vegan products to be fortified with iodine in particular Switching from dairy products to plant-based alternatives could lead to deficiencies in v
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Kseniia Petrova was detained for four months after arrest with research samples, and feared deportation to Russia Federal prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a Russian scientist who spent four months in
ScienceWire · NASA
In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously annou
ScienceWire · NASA
NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft withou
ScienceWire · NASA
NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – In
ScienceWire · NASA
NASA’s Inspiration Tour spread the excitement of space exploration and aeronautical innovation by connecting the public, industry, and academia with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leaders
ScienceWire · NASA
This photo released on Nov. 2, 2026, showcases NGC 4449, a dwarf irregular. Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies — small galaxies containing a few thousand to hundreds of milli
ScienceWire · BBC News
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
ScienceWire · BBC News
On Wednesday morning, Delhi's air quality index reading stood at 377, in the "very poor" category.
ScienceWire · BBC News
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
ScienceWire · The Guardian
A space capsule 300 miles above us is growing the tiny crystals of a potential cancer drug in microgravity Roughly 300 miles above our heads, three washing machine-sized capsules are orbiting the Earth. Inside one of the
ScienceWire · NASA
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 4 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photo
ScienceWire · NASA
With hardly a cloud in sight, astronauts had a sweeping view of nighttime lights in the U.S. Midwest.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03344-0 Information on the methodology used in the ranking for the 2026 Nature Spotlight: Neuroscience.
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03582-2 Genomes from thousands of ancient individuals show how migrations helped shape Celtic and Germanic languages — plus, how the brain may regulate e
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11368-9 Carbon radical generation by irreversible metal-to-ligand charge transfer
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03537-7 Astronomers spot an unprecedented double disk of debris around a dead star.
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03487-0 How similar are vertebrate and invertebrate sleeping behaviours? An analysis of spiders offers insights about how sleep evolved.
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03586-y Innovative polymer could give the manual toothbrush its first radical redesign in more than 1,000 years.
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03539-5 Simulation shows that hesitating can be the difference between making it to safety and not.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, burning up in the process Nasa ’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has spent two decades studying the most powerful explosions in
ScienceWire · NASA
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is pictured during the Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk. The International Space Station was soaring 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean at the time of this photograph. Ku
ScienceWire · NASA
For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, joel.w.sills@nasa.gov. Download PDF here Chip resistors are widely used in NASA projects, yet cases of alumina substrate cracking during environmental
ScienceWire · NASA
Students across the country will have the opportunity to connect directly with the International Space Station during a live, interactive in-flight call with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Mark Rober STEM content creator
ScienceWire · BBC News
A watchdog has criticised the lack of progress made by organisations in tackling climate change.
ScienceWire · BBC News
The men and women who rummage through commercial bins to take clothes and other items.
ScienceWire · BBC News
The government is launching the first study to measure PFAS in the UK population to understand the risks.
ScienceWire · BBC News
Four planned "hyperscale" data centres consider using gas-fired power for their electricity needs.
ScienceWire · BBC News
Researchers have detected signals from the smallest distances ever probed.
ScienceWire · NASA
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 3 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograp
ScienceWire · NASA
Super Typhoon In-fa developed an unusually large eye, and the remnants of Typhoon Champi transitioned into an extratropical storm that targeted Alaska.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
When the water in Flint, Michigan, became contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, Dr Siddhartha Roy, then a third year PhD student, was part of the team of scientists who publicly contradicted state and federal claim
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03561-7 China should share the evidence behind animal-testing alternatives openly
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03562-6 Research bonuses need clear and fair rules
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03560-8 Safety alerts must reach visiting PhD students
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03559-1 Universities must measure learning, both with and without AI assistance
ScienceWire · Nature
Nature, Published online: 03 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03277-8 The ecology and evolution of winged legendary beasts, and monkeys that show their behinds to their buddies, in this week’s pick from the Nature a
ScienceWire · NASA
Sixty-five years ago, a bold vision took root in Houston: a NASA center dedicated to human spaceflight. Since its founding, NASA’s Johnson Space Center has helped lead the nation’s human spaceflight program, supporting m
ScienceWire · NASA
For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, joel.w.sills@nasa.gov. Download the PDF version An instrumented hammer test does not require an idealized single half-sine waveform. When the complete
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Chemical tests on Aratasaurus bone identify presence of heme, the organic compound that allows haemoglobin in blood to carry oxygen around body It could be the opening of a Jurassic Park rip-off: scientists examining anc
ScienceWire · The Guardian
The brilliant planet is about to join the waning crescent moon and the brightest star in the Virgo constellation Early risers have a beautiful sight to look forward to this week as brilliant Venus joins the waning cresce
ScienceWire · The Guardian
UN-backed report finds even temporary rises above Paris agreement target could cause harm to glaciers and polar ice sheets Earth’s icy regions face such dangerous melting that global heating should be brought back below
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive award for scientific excellence in developmental biology An “inspiring” Cambridge scientist died in the Spanish train collision on Wednesday that killed at leas
ScienceWire · BBC News
It was feared The Short-Necked Oil Beetle had become extinct in Wales after recent surveys.
ScienceWire · BBC News
A number of birds are also injured after the spill from the oil tank earlier this week.
ScienceWire · BBC News
The popular attraction in County Down has been forced to close while efforts continue to remove oil from the pond.
ScienceWire · The Guardian
Richard Dawkins’ first work has thrilled fans and frustrated critics for five decades. The science has moved on, but any writer looking to supplant its place must learn its lessons Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene was n
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A desk guide to reading energy claims without laundering a press line into a fact.