October 17, 2026
The Ozone Layer Is Recovering—But the Work Is Not Finished
Decades of international controls on ozone-depleting chemicals are helping the stratospheric ozone layer recover. Scientists say the trend is encouraging,…
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October 17, 2026
The Battery Inside Your Gadgets Took Decades to Make
From the Walkman to the smartphone, portable electronics depend on a rechargeable battery shaped by decades of materials research—and a…
October 17, 2026
Your Body Runs on More Than One Clock: How Light and Meals Help Set the Time
The brain’s master clock coordinates daily rhythms, but clocks in other tissues also respond to cues such as food. That…
October 17, 2026
MOXIE Made Oxygen on Mars—One Breath-Sized Step Toward Living Off Earth
NASA’s toaster-size experiment turned carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere into oxygen 16 times, demonstrating a technology future explorers may…
October 17, 2026
SPHEREx Will Give Astronomers a New Kind of All-Sky Map
NASA’s infrared space telescope is designed to survey the whole sky in 102 wavelength bands, turning a broad cosmic panorama…
October 17, 2026
Elephants May Call One Another by Name, a Study of Their Rumbles Suggests
A study of wild African elephants in Kenya found that their calls can contain signals linked to particular listeners—and that…
October 17, 2026
DART’s Asteroid Crash Test: How a Spacecraft Changed a Moonlet’s Orbit
NASA’s DART mission deliberately struck the small asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. The impact shortened its orbit around a larger companion—and showed…
October 17, 2026
A 51,200-Year-Old Cave Painting Offers a Glimpse of Early Storytelling
In an Indonesian cave, a painted pig and three human-like figures may preserve one of the oldest known scenes—and a…
October 17, 2026
Enceladus Has a Key Ingredient for Life—and Cassini Found It in Saturn’s Spray
Ice grains blasted into space by Saturn’s moon Enceladus contain phosphate, an essential ingredient in the chemistry of life on…
October 17, 2026
Mars May Hide a Vast Reservoir of Water Deep Beneath Its Surface
Seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander point to water in fractured rock far below Mars’ surface. The finding is an…
October 17, 2026
The World’s Oldest Known Fossil Forest Was Growing in England 390 Million Years Ago
Fossilized trees and branches on the coast of southwest England offer a rare glimpse of early forests—and how they began…
October 16, 2026
The ICD: How a Global Medical Classification Makes Health Data Comparable
The International Classification of Diseases gives health systems a shared way to describe conditions and record causes of death—while leaving…
October 16, 2026
Margaret Hamilton: How Apollo’s Software Team Made Room for the Unexpected
When computer alarms appeared during Apollo 11’s landing, software built by Margaret Hamilton’s MIT team helped the guidance computer keep…
October 16, 2026
Patricia Bath: The Ophthalmologist Who Made Sight Part of the Public Health Mission
Patricia Bath paired a pioneering laser device for cataract surgery with a lifelong effort to make eye care more accessible.
October 14, 2026
Arizona-Led Bennu Mission Finds Ingredients for Life in Asteroid Samples
Analysis of material returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission found amino acids, genetic-code compounds and signs of ancient salty water. The…
October 14, 2026
Inside Arizona’s Biosphere 2, Scientists Can Watch a Landscape Take Shape
North of Tucson, a vast glass research complex lets scientists control rainfall and follow how water, rock, soil and living…
October 14, 2026
DeepSeek-R1: How an Open AI Model Put Reasoning Training in the Spotlight
DeepSeek’s January 2025 release paired a reasoning model with downloadable weights and a research paper describing how reinforcement learning helped…
October 14, 2026
GenCast: How AI Is Learning to Forecast Weather as a Range of Possibilities
Google DeepMind’s GenCast uses a generative AI model to produce 15-day global weather forecasts. Its research points to a new…
October 14, 2026
Mobile ALOHA: How a Robot Learns Household Tasks by Watching People
Stanford researchers built a mobile, two-armed robot that can learn specific tasks from human demonstrations—an approach that could make robot…
October 14, 2026
AlphaFold 3: How AI Is Mapping the Molecules Behind Life
The latest AlphaFold model predicts how proteins, DNA, RNA and other molecules fit together—offering researchers a powerful starting point, not…