The Thwaites Glacier, often called the “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to drastically raise sea levels, has been the focus of an ambitious study led by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). In an effort to understand the glacier’s melting process, a team of scientists drilled into
A rough diamond unearthed in Botswana in the final quarter of 2025 has drawn sustained attention from geoscientists and gemological laboratories worldwide. The 37.41-carat crystal features a highly uncommon internal division: one half displays a vivid pink hue, the other remains entirely colorless. The stark planar boundary between the two zones is physically intact and
“He puts forward logical alternative hypotheses,” said Cahill of Novoplansky’s critique. “The original work should have tested among a number of different hypotheses rather than focusing on a single interpretation. This is in part what makes it pseudoscience and promoting a worldview.” Granted, “[p]lants have extensive and well established mechanisms of communication, with that of
The world is home to some truly extraordinary trees. Some grow almost entirely beneath the ground, others are poisonous, and there’s one that’s estimated to be almost 5,000 years old. Then there are the big ones – the really big ones. Some of these titans rise more than 100 metres into the sky, while other
In astrophysics, extreme events may call for extreme interpretations. Sometimes, that means weighing every possible option for what something could have been—or what it could explain. In 2023, a detector buried off the Mediterranean Sea spotted an impossibly powerful neutrino signal—tens of thousands of times more energetic than anything produced by humanity’s most powerful particle
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence for a supermassive black hole. But Dr. Valentina Crespi from the Institute of Astrophysics La Plata and colleagues suggest that a radically different kind of compact object — one made of self-gravitating
Recreating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University of Sydney, used simple gases and electricity to recreate conditions usually found in the vicinity of stars and supernovas to produce a
Satellites have tracked week-by-week changes in sea level for 33 years, and NASA has now opened the record. That public stream exposes sudden bumps and dips that can worsen coastal flooding well before yearly averages show the change. Weekly sea level record goes public NASA posted weekly maps from NASA Sea Surface Height
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question for the researcher whose published paper turned up in another journal under someone else’s name. As a master’s student in
Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life. “What we