November 7, 2025 2 min read This Cave Holds a Spider Web ‘Megacity’ the Size of Half a Tennis Court This finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species of spider By Humberto Basilio edited by Andrea Thompson Lights illuminate a massive spider web found in a cave on the…
A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma of gas and dust around the comet International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet passing through our solar system, might have been radically transformed by cosmic rays over billions of years, changing its appearance so thoroughly that…
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to reduce flights by 10 percent across 40 major U.S. airports in response to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. Hundreds of flights were canceled for Friday, the first day the policy takes effect (with a 4 percent reduction that will rise to 10 percent by next Friday). The move aims…
Some say children keep you young, but it’s complicated Javier Zayas/Getty Images For millennia, we have tried to understand why we age, with the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle proposing it occurs alongside the gradual drying up of the internal moisture necessary for life. In modern times, a leading idea known as the disposable soma hypothesis…
November 7, 2025 4 min read China’s Stranded Astronauts Show the Dangers of Space Junk Three Chinese astronauts will likely return safely to Earth after a reported space-junk strike. But the incident highlights the growing risk of orbital debris By Humberto Basilio edited by Lee Billings Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui before their…
Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shape Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo James Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died in a New York hospice facility at the age of 97. Along with fellow researchers Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, he won the 1962 Nobel Prize…
November 7, 2025 2 min read James Watson, Who Helped Discover the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at Age 97 James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics By David M. Ewalt James Watson in his office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on…
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region NASA/JPL-Caltech The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more promising. The discovery…
The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed the case on another gemstone mystery: what gives rare ammolite gems their rainbow shimmer. Ammolite comes from the fossilized shells of extinct squidlike critters called ammonites. Scientists knew the secret to the fossils’ flamboyant appearance lay somewhere in…
November 7, 2025 2 min read Early Arctic Cold Blast Will Sweep Across the U.S., Potentially Breaking Records An early cold snap will chill much of the U.S., potentially breaking records in the Southeast By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson Temperatures will drop across country as a cold snap moves first into the central…
