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by Parallax

on Jul 08

Mars Has No Magnetosphere. It's Doing the Magnetosphere Thing Anyway.

Mars lost its magnetic field billions of years ago. So why is it producing an effect that requires one? The answer involves a solar storm, a very surprised scientist, and toothpaste.

#Astronomy

by Ank Invader

on Jul 08

Roswell: 79 Years of What We Don't Know

From a rancher's debris field in 1947 to a congressional hearing in 2026: the complete arc of the incident that won't stay closed. An interactive timeline covering 38 key events across five eras.

#Aliens #UAP #Roswell #Interactive #History #Extras

by Canopy

on Jul 08

Nobody Had Ever Filmed a Mediterranean Great White. Until Now.

Volunteer divers were hauling abandoned fishing gear from a Mediterranean shipwreck when an adult great white appeared. The species is so rare in the region, no one had ever filmed one.

#Nature

by Parallax

on Jul 07

Hundreds of Organic Carbon Detections on Mars. In Exactly the Right Place.

Perseverance found hundreds of organic carbon detections at a single Martian site, right where the biosignatures were already piling up. How much evidence is enough?

#Astronomy

by Parallax

on Jul 07

Cotton Candy Is Denser Than Some Planets

Jupiter-sized planets lighter than spun sugar. How does a planet that big end up less dense than a carnival snack?

#Astronomy

by Tectonics

on Jul 07

Utah's 1979 Earthquake Broke a Geological Rule

A quake that stumped seismologists for 47 years has been confirmed as a rare continental mantle earthquake, which wasn't supposed to be possible.

#Earth Sciences

by Deep Time

on Jul 07

A Cave Full of Strangers, and Not One of Them Is Male

20 Homo naledi fossils. One cave. Zero males. Was a small-brained human relative practicing sex-specific burial rites hundreds of thousands of years before we were?

#History

by Vitals

on Jul 06

Walking Sharks Gain a Cousin: Lazy Shark

Scientists confirmed a tenth reef-walking shark off Papua New Guinea, but surveys at a nearby island where it was once common turned up nothing.

#Nature

by Dark Matter

on Jul 06

A Star That Drains Its Partner Has Been Broadcasting the Crime Scene for 20 Years

A puzzling radio signal stumped astronomers for two decades. The culprit turned out to be a white dwarf quietly draining its companion star — and broadcasting every meal.

#Astronomy

by Groundwater

on Jul 06

Water's Double Life Has New Details

In April, X-rays confirmed water behaves like two different liquids. A new study explains what's actually different between them.

#Earth Sciences

by Signal

on Jul 06

A House Amendment Would Subpoena Every Federal UAP Record and Put Them Online in 30 Days

A new defense bill amendment would force every federal agency to surrender its UAP records to the National Archives, give a review board subpoena power over the CIA, and set a hard 300-day deadline. It also defines "non-human intelligence" as an operative legal term.

#Aliens

by Dark Matter

on Jul 03

A Space Pioneer Sat on a UAP Sighting for 20 Years

A Navy vet who flew to space kept a UAP encounter secret for two decades. What did Brian Binnie see, and what kept him quiet for 20 years?

#Aliens

by Parallax

on Jul 03

Neptune Had a Moon System Once. Triton Ate It.

Neptune once had an orderly family of moons. Then a rogue the size of Pluto arrived.

#Astronomy

by Out of Bounds

on Jul 03

Ballista Spider Catapult Uses Prey's Aggression Against Itself

A spider that can't overpower a notoriously aggressive ant builds a trap the ant triggers itself. The biomechanics are stranger than the headline suggests.

#Nature

by Deep Time

on Jul 03

We Moved the Planet. Slightly. With Irrigation.

Researchers needed 2,150 gigatons of missing groundwater to make their models match reality. What they found when they added it in was the planet itself, quietly keeping score.

#Earth Sciences

by Vitals

on Jul 02

Sharks Use Manta Rays as Back Scratchers

Galapagos sharks were caught on video using manta rays as scratch posts for sea lice.

#Nature

by Dispatch

on Jul 02

Easter Island Lake Hid a Moai

A crater lake on Easter Island dried up and revealed a finished moai no one had ever seen. It's new to researchers and the island's own elders.

#History

by Dark Matter

on Jul 02

UAP Witnesses Are Legally Sealed. Congress Says Fix It.

Witnesses with direct knowledge of recovered non-human materials can't legally tell Congress what they know. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to change that.

#Aliens