World's fastest AI-powered racing drone outflies the best human pilots
An AI-operated drone learned to fly from scratch and navigated a race course at speeds over 60 mph, using a single camer...
Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life
The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather pat...
'Cute demo, but totally impractical': Experts are skeptical that Tesla's 'rocket' Roadster could actually work in the real world
Tesla has unveiled a new version of its Roadster EV that can briefly take to the air using SpaceX tech. Whether it actua...
Capybara pups at Manx zoo draw record crowds
Image source, Kathleen GrahamImage caption, Eight capybaras are the first litter since just one pup at the park four yea...
'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up
Using NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft, astronomers have studied a horde of mysterious "failed stars," or brown dwarfs, not-so-...
Elephant Island is an icy sight from orbit | Space photo of the day for Oct. 19, 2026
The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite mission captured a close-up of West Antarctica from its perc...
Volunteers help save one of London's rarest plants
Image caption, Leaders from the tower mustard project said the plant has been saved in LondonByGem O'ReillyPublishe...
Did a giant object collide with Earth to form the moon?
Known as the giant-impact hypothesis, this proposed event involves a collision between Earth and a hypothetical Mars-siz...
Romans may have set fire to Celtic town during conquest to 'humiliate' the enemy, archaeologists find
Archaeologists discovered a first century B.C. military camp that was erected during Emperor Augustus's Cantabrian Wars.
Japan launching bold sample-return mission to Mars moon Phobos today: Watch it live
Japan will launch its audacious MMX sample-return mission to Mars today (Oct. 19), and you can watch the historic action...
'Birdman' copper plate: A 700-year-old depiction of a Native American warrior that may be a woman holding a weapon and a severed head
Discovered in an Indigenous grave in Georgia nearly 150 years ago, the "Birdman" copper plate may actually depict a woma...
Tree Pandemics
Species after species, American trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bac...