
A decade later, Portugal’s historic city shows “good life” can fit inside planetary limits
The city’s experiment turns sustainability from slogan into an operational tightrope everyone will have to learn to walk.

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The city’s experiment turns sustainability from slogan into an operational tightrope everyone will have to learn to walk.

A decades-old fossil trail leads to a new material blueprint: metal-like hardness plus rare elasticity in one jaw.

A new synthetic cell model resembles life on the outside. The inside reality is more complicated, and that matters.

NASA’s rover sees “honeycomb” polygons and nearby dark rocks, reviving old questions about geology and meteorites.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope can detect ancient TDEs, letting astronomers test how supermassive black holes formed.

A new look at how rain can be more likely after dry spells suggests prayer performs best where weather probabilities climb.

The switch hedges against a Vulcan Centaur freeze and forces SunRISE timing into a new, risk-managed launch path.

The evidence points to association, not proof, but it raises a practical question for consumers and health policy.

A new Scientific American report shows a prompting approach that helps an AI solve a conjecture humans worked on for decades.
A new study led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa says the Hawaiian plume got hotter, not cooler, over time.
New acoustic monitoring links resident reports to how often dolphins show up, filling a long blind spot for ecology.

A single date delivers a solar eclipse, Venus at dichotomy, and the Perseids peak, with timing by region.