Many useful metals unearthed from U.S. mines are discarded. When mining operations dig for valuable metals, they often exhume ore containing other metals too. These by-product elements are usually treated …
Science News from research organizations Date: September 2, 2025 Source: NASA Summary: Webb, Hubble, and SPHEREx are joining forces to study the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing details about its structure …
The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s …
Cuban brown anoles have the highest blood lead levels of any vertebrate known — three times that of the previous record holder, the Nile crocodile.
Science News from research organizations Date: September 2, 2025 Source: NASA Summary: NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and …
Rain? Or shine? Why do the apps get it wrong so often? Rob Watkins/Alamy If you hung out laundry, visited a beach or fired up the barbecue this week, you …
New report recommends improved education and genetic counseling alongside NCAA’s mandated screening
Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon or bar may carry unique flavors shaped by the soil, rainfall and temperature …
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on …
An artist’s representation of the extreme engine Millen lab The hottest engine in the world is minuscule, reaches seemingly impossible efficiencies and could approximate nature’s tiniest machines. A thermodynamic engine …