Scientists have found a way to detect one of the most dangerous whale viruses without touching the animals at all. By analyzing microscopic droplets from whales’ exhaled breath, researchers have identified cetacean morbillivirus, a pathogen...

A towering column of seawater that rises straight up from the ocean, collapses, and then forms again sounds like a visual effect gone wrong. But an Australian surf crew says it is real, repeatable, and...

From clean fusion energy to personalized gene editing, 2025 marked a turning point in modern science. Researchers across physics, medicine, space science, and artificial intelligence delivered breakthroughs once thought decades away. Here are the seven...

A powerful solar storm could push Earth into a space crisis faster than most people realize. According to new research, if operators lose control of satellites during such an event, a catastrophic collision in low-Earth...

The discovery of a 400,000-year-old human-made fire in eastern England is reshaping one of the most fundamental questions in archaeology: When did humans learn to control fire, and how did it change us? The newly...

The race to understand the rarest blood group on Earth has taken a surprising turn. Scientists in Thailand have identified an exceptionally uncommon hybrid blood type, known as the B(A) phenotype, found in only three...

Most people associate cosmic tails with comets, those brilliant streams of gas and dust trailing behind icy bodies as they race around the Sun. But Earth, too, has a tail. And unlike a comet’s shimmering...

A bold archaeological claim out of Italy is once again stirring debate around Egypt’s ancient pyramids. Earlier this year, two researchers argued that colossal man-made structures lie 3,500 feet beneath the Giza Plateau—a depth far...

A breakthrough treatment built from gene-edited immune cells has reversed aggressive and previously incurable blood cancers in patients who had run out of options. The therapy, developed by scientists at University College London and Great...

A 520-million-year-old fossil discovery in China is reshaping what scientists know about the earliest ancestors of today’s arthropods. The fossil, Youti yuanshi, contains a miniature brain, nerves, digestive glands, and traces of a circulatory system—all...