Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time

Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system. Ever since the first ones were discovered in the 1990s, astronomers have turned their attention to these distant worlds ...

Day and night get equal billing on Tuesday. A guide to the fall equinox

The fall equinox is Tuesday, when light and darkness split the day evenly. It marks the beginning of fall for the Northern ...

New statistical methods could lead to more reliable research findings

How much can we really trust a measurement? And how much data do researchers need to collect to draw reliable conclusions?

Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse

Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limiting global warming under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a Sep. 22 study ...

Gold nanoplasmonic chip tracks L-DOPA response in Parkinson's 'mini-brains'

Researchers have developed an organoid-on-a-chip technology that verifies the efficacy of Parkinson's disease treatments in real time. The technology combines a stem cell–derived "mini-brain" with a ...

3I/ATLAS has an extreme taste for heavy water

More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the world's most powerful ...

Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet shapes microbial life and influences the carbon cycle

A new study involving researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, shows that methane concentration ...

Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy

An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found the first so-called "microblazar" in the Milky Way. This stellar system is composed ...

Can a long-lived seabird evolve fast enough to avoid extinction under a changing climate?

Can they evolve quickly enough to keep pace with their changing environment? A new study published in the Proceedings of the ...

UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health

El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for a cycle of the climate phenomenon predicted to be the most intense on record.

The tilt in Earth's axis makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons

Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly orbit around the sun. The substantial tilt, about 23.5 degrees, is thought to be ...

Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in haze-hit Indonesia

More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday, as the country has battled for weeks to control fires that caused ...