Stone Age people in northern Scotland buried related males — but not females — together in the same tomb, a new DNA study reveals, creating “webs of descent” across several Neolithic archaeological sites. In the study, published Tuesday (April 14) in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed the DNA of 22 people from five tombs in…
NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday, April 20. What’s called the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage – the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid…
Uber is expanding its robotaxi empire for the second time in as many weeks. The ridesharing giant has started taxi test rides for employees in the San Francisco Bay Area, using Lucid Gravity SUVs upgraded with Nuro’s autonomous car technology. The test still has a safety driver on hand, but will let Uber staff hail…
A comet that once looked bright enough to light up the sky never made it past the sun. In early April 2026, Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) swept inward on a steep trajectory, passing closer to the sun than most objects survive. By the time it emerged from behind the sun’s glare, its core was gone…
New Webb observations of two exoplanets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c show blistering days and frozen nights, offering the first detailed climate maps of rocky exoplanets and dimming hopes for habitability. This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three exoplanets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 38.8 light-years from Earth. These…
April 13, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Imperiled ‘cloud jaguar’ spotted in Honduran mountains for the first time in a decade These images, conservationists say, are evidence that wildlife corridors are paying off By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Andrea Thompson A healthy male jaguar captured on camera in Honduras’ Sierra…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA Artemis 2 astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch celebrate after splashing down back on Earth. | Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Artemis 2 astronauts are all smiles back on Earth. The joy is infectious in this image of…
Researchers from National Taiwan University and Chulalongkorn University developed a copper-based catalyst system that improves low-temperature methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide hydrogenation by balancing two key steps in the reaction. Source: Read Full Article
Our gut microbiome has a significant impact on our hormones nopparit/Getty Images Discarded sex hormones can be returned to the bloodstream by bacteria in the gut – and now, a study has found that there are far more of these sex-hormone-recycling bacteria in the guts of people in industrialised societies than in those of hunter-gatherers…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A new gold rush is coming to California. For the third year, San Francisco’s Witter Coin will host a treasure hunt across the city collectively worth over $50,000. The grand prize? An incredibly rare, $50 gold piece from 1851…
