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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

The diamonds formed under extreme pressure and heat deep in the Earth’s mantle. If you find one, it will most likely look like a...

FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address

The changes to survivor signup have been made inside the program that the agency uses to manage disaster aid applications and pay out survivors,...

An Ancient Penis Worm With Rings of Sharp Teeth Has Been Discovered in the Grand Canyon

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of...

The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of...

The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel

Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on. Processing the seaweed into...

Hijacked satellites and orbiting space weapons: In the 21st century, space is the new battlefield

WASHINGTON – As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to...

RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30. The company was developing...

This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it...

Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC BY 4.0)The scientists found that,...

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of...