8 captivating photos of Delaware Bayâs annual horseshoe crab spawn
Few creatures wear the mantle of deep time as visibly as Limulus polyphemus, better known as the Atlantic horseshoe crab. To walk through the gravelly shores of the Delaware Bay…
June 2026
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networksâwebs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times…
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data
One of the worldâs most active ransomware groups exploited a critical vulnerability in Oracleâs PeopleSoft software suite and used it to target about 100 customers and extort at least one…
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
Founded during the US Civil War to provide advice to the government, the National Academies of Science have become one of the most prestigious scientific organizations. Its primary function is…
Long-lost World War II âHellshipâ may have finally been found
After over 80 years, a team of marine archeologists and historians believe that theyâve uncovered a lost piece of World War II history. The remains of the Japanese freighter HĹfuku…
Arizona students design app that calculates least-sweaty walking route
Itâs not unheard of for standard navigation apps to map out a less-than-ideal pedestrian journey. You technically can walk under that bridge and cross that six-lane highway, but that doesnât…
After WWII, flying saucer-shaped houses almost filled American suburbs
Tucked into a corner of the cavernous Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, just outside Detroit, is a structure that looks like a cross between a Mongolian yurt and a…
NASA Robotic Tech Demo Will Advance Prototype Gamma-Ray Detectors
4 min read NASA Robotic Tech Demo Will Advance Prototype Gamma-Ray Detectors A new type of gamma-ray sensor developed by NASA, called AstroPix, will take part in a robotic arm…
Hidden Nazi symbols discovered in famous German artistâs painting
They say you shouldnât judge a book by its cover, but what about judging a painting by the way it looks? While that sounds much more intuitive, a technique called…
After nearly breaking, NASA’s Deep Space Network “worked well” on Artemis II
NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with…