How the Myanmar Earthquake Shook Skyscrapers in Bangkok
More than 600 miles separated the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake in Myanmar from the skyscrapers of Bangkok, which lurched ...
Partial Eclipse Captivates Much of the Northern Hemisphere
As the sun rose in the Northern Hemisphere on Saturday, the moon cut across Earth’s orbit and took a bite out of the sun. The...
A Shark’s Sounds Are Recorded for What Is Believed to Be the First Time
Dolphins whistle. Whales sing. Fish croak, chirp, grunt, hum and growl. But in the chatter of the sea, one voice has been mis...
Masaki Kashiwara, Japanese Mathematician, Wins 2025 Abel Prize
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel ...
You Can Make Amber Fossils in 24 Hours, Instead of Millions of Years
Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ancien...
Lessons from a Lost-Pet Detective Named Kat
In 1996, Kat Albrecht was a police officer and bloodhound handler in Santa Cruz, Calif. Her dog, A.J., had been a part of man...
After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost Moon Lander
NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget tha...
Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand
When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine , a marine ecologist at the Univer...
These Iguanas Got Carried Away and Ended Up in Fiji, 5,000 Miles From Home
For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species d...
Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds
Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study , OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety...