Tube-tying surgeries and vasectomies skyrocketed post-Roe
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A new study suggests that the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 prompted a surge in young people undergoing sterilization procedures, especially women.
2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope
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The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight lunar distances. You can still see the massive rock with a backyard telescope.
Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered 'extremely close' to Earth
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Astronomers found the most massive stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy after spotting a star «wobbling» nearby. The baby monster is the 2nd-closest black hole to Earth ever detected.
Tired of your laptop battery degrading? New 'pulse current' charging process could double its lifespan.
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Using pulse current charging, or a constant current divided with a few short breaks, lithium-ion batteries hold up better over hundreds of charging cycles and can last twice as long.
Pluto's huge white 'heart' has a surprisingly violent origin, new study suggests
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Tombaugh Regio — the large, pale heart that dominates Pluto's terrain — is made of nitrogen ice that accumulated after a huge, slow-motion impact, new research suggests.
Tiny 'sungrazer' comet discovered, photographed and destroyed — all during historic total solar eclipse
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On April 8, just a few hours before the solar eclipse, an amateur astronomer discovered a small «sungrazer» comet in close proximity to our home star. The newfound object was photographed during totality before disintegrating into nothingness late
Avi Wigderson wins $1 million Turing Award for using randomness to change computer science
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The 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Widgerson. The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems.
No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special
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Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see?
H5N1: What to know about the bird flu cases in cows, goats and people
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Bird flu in cows and goats has raised alarm in the U.S. To date, one person is thought to have caught the virus from cattle, but the risk to the public is low.
Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing
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Scientists used a technique called 'active syndrome extraction' to build four logical qubits from 30 physical ones and run 14,000 experiments without detecting a single error.
'Eyes coming straight for me': Huge crocodile launches itself into boat with jaws wide open in strange attack
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Queensland authorities are on the lookout for a crocodile reported to have leapt into a fisher's boat at Jane Creek before losing its balance and tumbling back into the water.
Solar storm may amp up northern lights before Christmas
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A solar storm that erupted from the sun on Monday (Dec. 20) may boost northern lights displays around the north pole just ahead of Santa's trip this weekend.
Darkness caused by dino-killing asteroid snuffed out life on Earth in 9 months
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After an asteroid struck at the end of the Cretaceous period, debris from wildfires filled the atmosphere and blocked sunlight across Earth, causing ecosystem collapse and extinctions.
