The Aurora Secret: How Solar Particles Paint Neon Ribbons Across Polar Night Skies

Nobody really wants to talk about their bowels, which might be part of why so many people quietly struggle with constipation for years. They’ve tried fiber, water, laxatives, whatever a friend said worked. For a substantial number of people, none of it works, and until now, doctors haven’t had a great explanation as to why….

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Some 7,500 languages are spoken or signed around the world today. Though that might sound like a lot, the number could have been up to 10 times higher a few thousand years ago, researchers report July 23 in Science. “That was the golden age of linguistic diversity,” says Claire Bowern, a linguist at Yale University….

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land Eli Stark-Elster | AAAS Mass Media Fellow June 18, 2026 Two fossils of juvenile embolomeres—crocodile-like creatures, illustrated here—suggest that they did not…

WASHINGTON — Italian startup ORiS has raised 5 million euros ($5.7 million) to help it develop wireless power-beaming technology for satellites using lasers. The company, based in Turin, Italy, announced July 21 that it raised 4.5 million euros in a pre-seed funding round led by Earlybird and co-led by Pitchdrive, with participation from Galaxia, Vento…

Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing scientific and cosmological exploration. In a recent research breakthrough, the scientists believe that AI could make the search for new Physics much faster and less expensive. Here is the surprising downside too. The discovery of new Physics through the transfer learning technique is not without risks. In the study published…