Teen’s Origami Experiments Could Transform How We Build Disaster Shelters
Paper, Dumbbells, and a Big Idea The apparatus for one of the year’s most celebrated student experiments was humble: paper and gym equipment. Miles Wu, 14, of New York City, spent his project folding the same origami pattern over and over — 54 systematic variations…
A High School Teacher Found the First Adult T. Rex Footprints Ever Recorded
Footprints Frozen in Time Somewhere in the rugged badlands of southwestern North Dakota, 66.5 million years ago, a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex went for a walk. We know this now because a high school teacher happened to look down at the right moment. “As a…
Ancient Hidden Landmass Confirms Gondwana Was a True Supercontinent That Sparked Life
New research confirms that Gondwana was indeed a true supercontinent, settling a long-standing scientific debate. Researchers made the determination after discovering buried remnants of the ancient landmass. Beyond resolving questions about its classification, the findings suggest Gondwana played a significant role in sparking the conditions that helped life on Earth begin and flourish.
New MRI Agent Spots Lung Cancer Tumors as Small as One Millimeter
Researchers at Georgia State University have developed a new protein-based MRI contrast agent that can detect lung cancer and hidden metastases earlier than conventional imaging methods. Led by Professor Jenny J. Yang, the multi-institutional team’s breakthrough could significantly improve early diagnosis, giving doctors a better chance to identify invasive cancer before it spreads further.
Webb Telescope Unveils Stunning New Detail Inside the Lion Nebula
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning and highly detailed image of the Lion Nebula, offering a closer look at the dying star within it. Using its NIRCam and MIRI instruments, Webb was able to peer into the nebula with greater clarity than ever before, giving scientists valuable new insight into the late stages of stellar evolution.
Giant Dinosaur Eggs Found at the Bottom of the World Rewrite Nesting History
A Surprising Discovery Near the End of the Earth They were the largest creatures to ever walk on land — and it turns out they could make a home almost anywhere, even near the frozen edge of the world. Scientists have uncovered a remarkable trove…
Ancient Cave Markings in Ireland Could Rewrite the Island’s Entire Human History
Paintings in the Dark, Thousands of Years Before Anyone Was Supposed to Be There Imagine walking into a limestone cave in southwestern Ireland and finding paintings of mammoths and deer on the walls — made by human hands at least 15,000 years ago, at a…
Washing-Machine-Sized Asteroid Burns Up Over Australia in a Historic Planetary Defense First
A Space Rock the Size of an Appliance Made History A washing-machine-sized asteroid burnt up harmlessly in Earth’s upper atmosphere on September 6, disintegrating over the Indian Ocean in the stretch of water between Western Australia and Bali. It wasn’t the size of the rock…
How a Warm Tropical Ocean Secretly Buried Antarctica in Record Snowfall
East Antarctica added a record 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing the continent’s long-term ice loss. Scientists discovered the unexpected cause was warming tropical ocean waters thousands of miles away, which shifted atmospheric circulation patterns and directed increased snowfall toward the region. The gain offers a brief reprieve but does not reverse Antarctica’s overall declining ice trend.
Utah’s Rocky Slopes Are Hiding Nearly a Billion Tons of Frozen Water
A Frozen Secret Hiding in Plain Sight Hikers have been trudging past it for generations — a lumpy, unremarkable pile of boulders tucked into a basin below Mount Timpanogos in Utah. Nobody suspected they were walking over one of the American West’s most significant hidden…
