Discoveries, experiments, and how the world works.
What if the rust-colored rocks under the Australian outback were quietly brewing fuel? Researchers studying Western Australia's iron-rich rock formations found they naturally generate hydrogen gas, and the reaction might be sped up to make far more.
Imagine tracking the planet's pulse for 40 years and then losing the signal for even a few months. NASA calls the fix 'foresight' — planning future satellites years before current ones fail.
2 min read · 2026-08-27
Smoke from a wildfire near Blaenavon traveled 30 miles and could be smelled in Cardiff, and new monitoring data now ranks this small Welsh county among the world's biggest carbon emission hotspots this year.
2 min read · 2026-08-24
A chatbot can write a legal brief in seconds yet stumble on a puzzle a five-year-old solves easily. Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell argues this gap reveals we are measuring machine intelligence the wrong way.
2 min read · 2026-08-21
A stellar nursery shaped like a spider's web sits 161,000 light-years away, and NASA just merged X-ray, infrared, and visible light data to see it like never before.
2 min read · 2026-08-18