Long summers, rising heat, and a forgotten solution As heatwaves grow more frequent and intense, cooling our homes has become a pressing issue. Yet, millions of households lack air conditioning, ...

Gasoline without oil fields sounds like a contradiction. Meet the machine daring you to rethink what a green fill-up could be. In Los Angeles, a fridge-sized box hums, making gasoline from ambient air ...

Could the most tantalizing clue to extraterrestrial life be trapped in a rocky riddle on Mars while the decision to solve it rests with accountants? The red planet may be sending signals, but the ...

How can a delicate butterfly survive with a genome that looks like a puzzle spilled on the floor? Cracking that riddle could upend ideas about evolution and open an unexpected door in cancer research.

What if eight arms don’t share the work equally? A cache of seaside videos has scientists rethinking how octopuses choose which limb does what, with implications that stretch far beyond the ocean.

They say holograms need dark rooms and heavy kit. What if the phone in your pocket just proved otherwise? The lab fantasy of 3D images springing from a phone screen just got a practical blueprint, ...

Why would NASA fixate on speckles smaller than a grain of sand? On a planet of endless red dust, a new pattern is daring scientists to rethink what leaves a mark. On the floor of Jezero Crater, ...

Perpetual motion is impossible, right? Then why can you now watch a piece of matter that won’t stop moving, no microscope required? At the University of Colorado Boulder, physicists Hanqing Zhao and ...

They call it unimaginable speed for sand that barely seems to breathe. What did Perseverance see that turns a still life into a stopwatch? From the Kerrlaguna outcrop, Perseverance tracks rows of ...

A Copenhagen lab says our worst waste might be our smartest climate ally. If bottles can trap what factories breathe out, what happens to recycling as we know it? From soda bottles to smokestacks, ...

A hunt for methane in 1976 stumbled onto a clue no one could explain; in 2025, scientists returned to ask the ocean a harder question. What they confirmed beneath the seafloor could redraw the map of ...

What happens when a medical emergency strikes and Earth answers minutes too late? NASA is betting on a digital crew mate to think like a doctor in deep space. The toughest test may be trust. Delayed ...