AI Scientists Outnumber Humans in Stanford’s Virtual Drug Company
A Drug Company With No Employees The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees — and none of them are human. There’s no lab space, no lunch breaks, and no payroll. Instead, there are tens…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Opens Its Eyes to the Universe for the First Time
A Blurry First Glimpse — and That’s a Very Good Thing NASA’s newest space telescope has taken its first look at the stars, and the view is blurry — exactly what engineers expected. Don’t let that fool you. This moment marks one of the most…
Canada’s Last Arctic Epishelf Lake Is Gone Forever and It’s Not Coming Back
A One-of-a-Kind Ecosystem Erased in Months A lake that had survived for thousands of years in the Canadian Arctic is now gone. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports has confirmed what scientists feared: Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean…
Ancient Teeth Reveal T. Rex Ran as Warm as a Human Being
A 66-Million-Year-Old Thermometer For decades, the question of whether Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded or cold-blooded has loomed over paleontology like the dinosaur itself. Now, scientists have finally cracked it — and the answer came from teeth. A new study published on September 16 in the…
A 240-Million-Year-Old Tusked Beast Sat in a Museum for 60 Years and Just Rewrote Dinosaur History
The Fossil That Waited Six Decades The story began in 1963, when a British expedition collected a large number of synapsid fossils — mammal-lineage vertebrates that were widespread and diverse long before dinosaurs came to dominate terrestrial ecosystems — from what is now Tanzania. The…
Dinosaur Poop Holds a 66-Million-Year-Old Secret About Bird Survival
An Unlikely Fossil From the Most Unlikely Place About 66 million years ago, a dinosaur — maybe a T. rex or a Nanotyrannus — ate a bird. The record of that meal, in the form of fossilized poop, has survived to today, preserving the best…
Europe Launches Two Satellites That Will Track Plant Health and Ocean Conditions
Two European Earth-observing satellites successfully reached orbit after launching aboard a Vega C rocket on September 14. The FLEX and Copernicus-3C spacecraft lifted off at 9:21 p.m. ET from a launch site in South America. Both satellites are part of Europe’s ongoing efforts to monitor and study the Earth from space.
Scientists Discover Unknown Minerals That Could Lock Water Deep Inside Earth
Scientists believe Earth may be hiding a massive reservoir of water deep beneath its surface, as far down as 1,800 miles underground. This hidden water could have significant implications for our understanding of the planet’s geology and the conditions that make life possible. Water remains essential to all known life on Earth.
A High School Teacher’s Knee Surgery Walk Led to History’s First T. Rex Trackway
An Accidental Discovery in the Badlands In 2025, high school teacher and amateur fossil hunter Kent Hups was recovering from knee replacement surgery while volunteering with paleontologist Tyler Lyson in the rugged badlands of North Dakota. Looking for an easier route out of a narrow,…
South Dakota’s Famous Mammoth Graveyard Is Way Older Than Scientists Thought
A Prehistoric Mystery, Rewritten Deep within an ancient sinkhole lie the remains of dozens of mammoths — prehistoric wanderers who waded into warm springs to their deaths. For decades, those deaths were accepted as having occurred roughly 26,000 years ago. But new research published in…
