A frozen lake in Czechia turned an ominous green color, a warning sign of ecological changes due to a warming climate. Researchers from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences collected samples of a toxic blue-green algae bloom in Lake Lipno, which caused the ice to turn green in December 2025. Cyanobacteria blooms
Jupiter’s atmosphere and clouds have mesmerized stargazers for centuries, as their multi-colored, swirling layers can easily be viewed from powerful telescopes on Earth. However, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has upped the ante regarding our understanding of Jupiter’s atmospheric features, having revealed them in breathtaking detail. This includes images of massive lightning storms, clouds swallowing clouds, polar
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool has uncovered more than 1,000 strange cosmic objects in the Hubble Space Telescope‘s image archive, including some that cannot be explained by science. After searching with the tool for just two days, researchers found 1,300 oddball objects, including chaotic merging galaxies, stars trailing gas, and even some objects that haven’t
When the Undertones sang about “Teenage Kicks,” they could well have been inadvertently referring to the chaotic and violent “teenage” periods of planetary systems that are shaped by collisions between bodies of various sizes, such as the impact upon Earth by a massive body that created the moon. Now, using the world’s largest radio telescope
A gigantic bulge in the north rim of the Yellowstone caldera is the latest sign of volcanic activity in the national park. Geologists call this type of bulge “volcanic uplift.” It’s often caused by the movement of magma or gas underground. Dubbed the Norris Uplift Anomaly when it first appeared near the Norris Geyser Basin
The fossil record of early vertebrates is particularly patchy, largely due to the fact that most of these primitive creatures were soft bodied and, as a result, didn’t readily fossilise. On the rare occasions when squishy early vertebrates did become fossils, their remains were so squashed that their original state became almost unrecognisable. This has
Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution, scientists claim in a new study. Excavations at the Xigou site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region in central China have revealed evidence of advanced stone tool use by early human ancestors dating back 160,000–72,000 years ago. This
In the animal kingdom, one of the most bizarre discoveries of all-time was the platypus. When reports of the platypus reached the western hemisphere, most leading naturalists at the time assumed it was a hoax, including the first European scientists to examine a specimen in 1799. It was an animal that laid eggs, yet it
Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable discovery. Held within two pieces of the fossilised tree resin are three exceptionally well-preserved animals: a fungus gnat, a black fly and, most notably, an ant. Now extinct, the ant species (†Ctenobethylus goepperti) is commonly found in
SpaceX launched an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday night (Jan. 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III-SV09 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday at 11:53 p.m. EST (0453 GMT on Jan. 28). SpaceX and the Space Force had been targeting Monday