NASA’s Psyche spacecraft captured some intriguing photos of Mars during a May flyby. See what the space agency just released

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Voyager 1 has been on an incredible journey that’s defied all expectations. And it’s about to achieve yet another milestone. The small car-sized spacecraft was the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, and for almost 50 years it’s been hurtling away from Earth at 61,100 kilometers (38,000 miles) per hour. Crazily, in all that…

In an era defined by escalating environmental, social, and economic challenges, a transformative approach to robotics is emerging—one that aligns technological innovation with sustainability imperatives. Recent discourse by Song, Mazzolai, and Kovač proposes the establishment of “Sustainability Robotics,” a novel interdisciplinary field designed to unify fragmented efforts in robotic development with global sustainability goals. This…

A common belief that baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adults has been overturned by a new study from Loma Linda University. After reviewing the history and spread of the myth, researchers concluded that bites from adult rattlesnakes are generally more dangerous because adults carry and inject much larger amounts of venom. The study also…

Physicists have coaxed a black hole’s most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for the first time, watched that light react back on the simulated black hole that produced it. The result gives researchers a rare, hands-on look at Hawking radiation ‪—‬ the faint thermal emission that Stephen Hawking predicted should…

As scientists warn that a powerful El Niño, a climate pattern pushing temperatures up, could develop in the coming years, new research suggests a controversial form of solar geoengineering might one day help reduce the natural occurence’s most destructive impacts. The study, published this week in Science Advances by researchers at the Scripps Institution of…