Extreme heat beneath the equatorial Pacific has intensified again, with the latest subsurface analysis reportedly reaching 11.1°C above average as the developing El Niño continues strengthening.
A five-dimensional gravitational world continues to match a four-dimensional quantum boundary even after physicists add more complicated quantum-gravity corrections, pushing the holographic principle beyond its simplest form.
A trio of heavyweight black holes are entangled in a dance of death that will quite possibly see them gradually all merge to form an even greater behemoth.
Scientists simulated ten possible versions of human civilization across the next 1,000 years. Seven collapsed in every run, with some societies repeatedly rebuilding before falling again.
The Doomsday Clock has moved to its most alarming position ever. It now stands at 85 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The symbolic clock is not a prediction of when the world will end. It is a warning about threats that could lead to a global catastrophe. In 2026, nuclear weapons remain one of the main concerns.
The ion-powered robots would be able to access the methane-carved caves of Saturn's largest moon.
One of the most remarkable facts about the Universe is simply that, over the past couple of centuries, humanity has actually been able to make sense of much of it at a basic, fundamental level. We’ve determined what all of the luminous and light-blocking material, plus radiation, is made of: the normal matter and energy in our Universe that consists of particles within the Standard Model. We’ve discovered black holes and have come to understand how gravity and the expanding Universe works: governed by the laws of Einstein’s general relativity. And we understand the rules governing how particles interact: through the strong nuclear, weak nuclear, and electromagnetic forces, as dictated by quantum field theory.
Earth erased much of the evidence from its violent early years, but the Moon did not. Rocks recovered from a previously inaccessible region are now revealing a record scientists have waited decades to examine.