New findings reveal Ancient Roman concrete survives for millennia by chemically self-healing its own cracks through carbonation

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a remarkable milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195 kilometers) across the Red Planet. A new image captured on June 13, 2026, shows the rover as a tiny green speck against the Martian landscape, just one day before it officially reached the distance…

The best part of watching the 1961 film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is seeing the future unfold. As its own piece of pop culture art, it’s hard to say that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea holds up. Even by the standards of the day, Voyage to the Bottom of the…

STEM DOMINANCE: Enrollment for courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics continued to grow despite the overall decline, statistics showed Taiwan’s college and university enrollment fell to 1.057 million last year, down 147,000 over the past five years, as the nation’s declining birthrate continues to reduce undergraduate numbers, while the proportion of students in science…

Experts suggest more than 2,700 people may have died from heat-related causes during the heatwaves.

This past week, a child stood on the observation deck of Toronto’s CN Tower and looked out at a city skyline blurred by haze. Hundreds of miles away, National Guard troops patrolled a smoke-dimmed National Mall in Washington, and commuters pulled on masks. Smoke drifting south from Canada’s wildfires has become an almost annual visitor…

For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and artificial bodies that not only think but also feel, and are both intelligent and conscious. For the vast majority of this time, this prospect seemed very distant; a topic for science fiction and…