The largest global survey of physicists finds 68% don’t see the Big Bang as time’s start, with split views on inflation, dark matter and quantum gravity.
Hayabusa2 fired its laser twice at asteroid Torifune during a high‑speed flyby. Here’s how laser ranging works and why it matters for future missions.
Researchers found atmospheric microplastics in Switzerland total ~219 tons a year, including 78 on farmland and 10 into waters, with 60% falling during dry weat
A global roughness map says Mercury shrank more than thought: nearly 12 miles in diameter, a 10–30% boost tied to debris-hidden wrinkles.
In mice, activating the mechanosensor GPR133 with AP503 increased bone strength in both healthy and osteoporotic-like animals by boosting builders and easing br
Chesapeake Bay SAV grew 7% in 2025 to 89,385 acres—the highest since 2018—driven by salty zones, while tidal fresh areas declined slightly.
At Holnicote and in Devon, beavers stored over 24 million liters and, in five U.S. wildfires, streamside vegetation in beaver areas suffered one‑third the damag
Label‑free optical metabolic imaging distinguished activated from resting immune cells in PBMCs with ~94% accuracy, in a Biophotonics Discovery study.
Finland data show a usable limit: keep clearcuts near 10% per decade, use ~90-year rotations or set aside one-fifth to keep forest bird numbers stable.
ESA’s FLEX and Sentinel‑3C launch on Vega‑C to track faint plant fluorescence and align it with Earth‑system data via near‑simultaneous tandem observations.