Cars thrown from roads, classrooms damaged and residents injured as violent tornadoes strike western Sicily. Emergency crews are responding across several communities.
The 2026 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to US-based researcher Francis Halzen for his discovery of high energy neutrino particles from space.
The Nobel committee said Halzen has made “decisive contributions” to the discovery of “neutrinos of astrophysical origin” with IceCube, an experiment installed under ice at the South Pole.
Ellen Moons, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, referred to these neutrinos as “ghostly messengers”. This references the fact the particles have nearly no mass and pass through solid objects with hardly any interaction. In fact, billions of neutrinos pass through any given person on Earth every second.
Forensic reexaminations of 5,000-year-old skulls indicate over a dozen ancient Egyptian royal attendants met gruesome ends to honor their beloved, deceased pharaohs. The recent findings, detailed in a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, finally explain a collection of cold cases that have puzzled researchers for nearly a century.
Scientists are finding growing signs that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may be weakening, while new modelling reveals what could follow if the system eventually collapses. Researchers have identified changes in the Gulf Stream, the persistent cold region south of Greenland and possible instability within the wider circulation. Separate simulations suggest a shutdown could trigger severe Arctic cooling, major Antarctic warming and the release of deep-ocean carbon back into the atmosphere, turning an Atlantic circulation failure into a much wider planetary disruption.
A 28-year-old laboratory worker has died after reportedly contracting pneumonic plague following an accident at an anti-plague institute in Siberia. The case has triggered a major public-health response, with nearly 200 potential contacts identified, hospital quarantine measures introduced and authorities investigating how the deadly exposure occurred.
Anthropic is reportedly warning investors that advanced AI could one day pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”. Its own safety research has explored shutdown resistance, manipulation and other unexpected behaviour in controlled tests.
A mysterious creature, an abandoned munitions site, and a deadly bridge collapse intertwine in the folklore of Point Pleasant.
A new expedition is preparing to uncover the mysterious Taraia Object beneath the lagoon at Nikumaroro, a target some researchers believe could be linked to Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra.
Brazilian researcher Fabio Calabria Evangelista da Silva has identified eight exoplanets outside the Solar System that may have liquid water. The scientist analysed data from more than 6,000 exoplanets, studying their radius, density and distance from the star they orbit. From this dataset, he selected planets that are similar to Earth in terms of radius and density and are also located within the habitable zone.
There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe.
Now, a team from the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and the University of Oregon has announced an important first: A radio signal coming directly from an exoplanet (a planet outside the Solar System).
The tiny power sources, tested in pigs, dissolve inside the digestive tract after several months.