By Scientific American | | 6/10/2025 11:15 AM

In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current administration has thrown that into uncertainty ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/10/2025 10:32 AM

Zoning out reveals hidden patterns in tasks ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/10/2025 9:00 AM

The quantum computer, called Starling, will use 200 logical qubits — and IBM plans to follow this up with a 2,000-logical-qubit machine in 2033 ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/10/2025 7:25 AM

A recent satellite image captured a glowing river of lava flowing down the flank of Europe's largest active volcano as it spectacularly blew its top and unleashed a towering plume of ash, smoke and toxic gases into the skies over Sicily. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 6/10/2025 7:00 AM

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony." ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/10/2025 6:00 AM

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 7:01 PM

Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/9/2025 5:49 PM

During recent protests in Los Angeles, fires triggered “thermal runaway” in several Waymo robotaxis’ lithium-ion battery packs. The phenomenon sent temperatures past 1,000 degrees Celsius, vaporized much of the cars and spewed lung-searing hydrogen fluoride ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 5:20 PM

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and someday, it could inspire advances in AI and Alzheimer's research. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/9/2025 4:54 PM

A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that cobalt-70 isotopes form different nuclear shapes when their energy levels differ only slightly. The findings, published in Nature Communications Physics, shed light on the dynamic, complex nature of exotic nuclear particles. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 1:52 PM

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/9/2025 1:45 PM

Here's the surprising math at the heart of auction theory ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/9/2025 12:51 PM

String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads of energy. But in the early 21st century, it was realized that most of the versions of reality described by string theory's equations cannot match up with observations of our own universe. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/9/2025 12:50 PM

To prevent Salmonella food poisoning, refrigerate your eggs, cook them well, never eat them raw and clean, clean, clean ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 6/9/2025 12:32 PM

A new study by Apple has ignited controversy in the AI field by showing how reasoning models undergo 'complete accuracy collapse' when overloaded with complex problems. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/9/2025 12:00 PM

As cases of chronic kidney disease emerge in outdoor laborers around the world, scientists are finding that repeated damage from prolonged extreme heat seems to be a leading factor to kidney failure ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 11:54 AM

An osprey flying over Myrtle Beach dropped the small shark from a tree after being harassed by crows. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 11:53 AM

A new analysis of the ancient DNA of 42 people from Papua New Guinea reveals that some cultures were remarkably isolated for centuries. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/9/2025 11:49 AM

Treat dad to something special this Father's Day with our picks of the best deals on optics. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/9/2025 11:00 AM

The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here—but the real news came one week before: the “muon g–2 anomaly” might have never existed ... Read full Story