Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone - Ars Technica
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
By Jacek Krywko
Our Solar System May Be Destroyed 100 Times Faster Than We Thought - ScienceAlert
The cosmos wavers between predictable stability and wild chaos, which troubles our sense-seeking brains.
By Ivan Farkas
Mysterious 10-minute X-ray burst from a distant galaxy may have come from 2 dead stars colliding - Space
"When I saw the X-ray data from this new event, I realized something was up."
By Robert Lea
Three quantum-inspired cores leave opposite fingerprints on the ringing of black holes - Phys.org
Every black hole hides a question at its center. Einstein's theory predicts that whatever falls in is crushed into a singularity, a point of infinite density where the theory itself breaks down. Most physicists expect quantum gravity to replace that point wit…
By Phys.Org
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations - Ars Technica
We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
By Eric Berger
Yellowstone Mechanic Stops So He Doesn't Hit Bull Bison, Bison Hits Him Anyway - Cowboy State Daily
A seasonal mechanic driving through Yellowstone National Park in darkness Thursday morning stopped so he wouldn't hit a bull bison standing in the road at Mud Volcano. The bison did not return the favor, opting to smash into his truck anyway.
By Andrew Rossi
Northern Lights could be visible in Capital Region this weekend - Times Union
A geomagnetic storm could bring an aurora display to the skies Friday evening, with chances peaking late Saturday night.
By Emily Scolnick
Doomed NASA spacecraft beams back stunning cosmic images weeks before fiery plunge to Earth - New York Post
A doomed spacecraft set to plunge to Earth in weeks has shared new cosmic images.
By SWNS
Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of the solar system - Phys.org
A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Brittany Miles, assistant astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory…
By Phys.Org
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 - Medical Xpress
Researchers from the University Hospital of Bonn and the University of Bonn have succeeded in dramatically rejuvenating human cells in a test tube. To do so, they directly reprogrammed red blood cell precursors into stem cells from which neurons can be derive…
By Medical Xpress
African antelopes spreading in New Mexico: How far could they go under climate change? - Phys.org
Majestic African antelopes known as gemsbok have been roaming the U.S. Southwest since their introduction in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to New Mexico as a game species for hunting, gemsbok quickly settled in, expanding more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) fr…
By Phys.Org
Scientists engineer microbe to help humanity settle Mars - Space
"On Mars, nature will do the same jobs for us that she does on Earth — create fertile soil, shelter, oxygen and food."
By Charles Q. Choi
Scientists Find a Strange Chemical Loop That May Have Helped Life Get Started - ScienceAlert
Space rocks like Bennu contain key genetic ingredients such as sugar, which they delivered in explosive fashion to provide early Earth with another source of life-friendly materials. Ribose is one such bio-essential sugar, some of which may have arrived from…
By Ivan Farkas
The Milky Way glows over telescopes in the Atacama Desert photo of the day for Oct. 9, 2026 - Space
A breathtaking, cosmic view.
By Chelsea Gohd
Physics model reveals fundamental trade-off between prediction and energy efficiency in intelligent systems - Phys.org
Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, from digital assistants to robots that respond to their surroundings. Each of these capabilities is based on physical computational processes that consume energy. An international re…
By Phys.Org
A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades - Gizmodo
A huge bug-like crustacean, roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, spent over three decades misidentified as a known species as it sat inside the University of Tübingen in Germany.
By Matthew Phelan
Scientists Just Built a Computer Out of DNA—and It Runs Without Electricity - Yahoo Tech
A new DNA computer performed 700 computations across several experiments—without silicon or continuous energy input.
By Darren Orf
Superconducting circuit links smaller photon groups into larger entangled states - Phys.org
Quantum computers, computer systems that leverage the laws of quantum mechanics, store and process information using qubits (i.e., quantum bits). In many quantum computers, qubits are linked via entanglement, a quantum mechanical effect that connects particle…
By Ingrid Fadelli
Watch private Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft leave the International Space Station today - Space
The S.S. Steven R. Nagel was released by the station's Canadarm2 at 12:44 p.m. ET.
By Mike Wall