28 May 2026
Thousands of hidden planets found in old NASA telescope data
A sky-survey satellite completed its first year of data collection in 2018, capturing brightness records for tens of millions of stars. Astronomers worked through the brighter targets and moved on to confirming worlds. Most of what the spacecraft had recorded just sat in the archive – millions of brightness records, sitting unexamined for years. A team recently built tools to search through all…
24 May 2026
A slow laser bottleneck just got a 250x AI shortcut for next-generation X-ray experiments
Building a world-class X-ray experiment begins with a laser operating at the wrong frequency. Before it becomes useful, researchers pass the beam through precision crystals twice, stepping the light from infrared into ultraviolet. That type of conversion has to be simulated before any parameter can be adjusted. Until now, that simulation was a persistent slowdown.
21 May 2026
Humans have a seventh sense called 'remote touch' that allows us to detect objects without physical contact, according to scientists
Scientists believe that humans have a hidden sense of touch, called “remote touch,” that extends beyond the nerves in our fingertips. In new experiments, volunteers detected objects buried in sand without making contact – successfully identifying hidden cubes with about 70 percent accuracy.
30 Apr 2026
Warm ocean water is moving toward Antarctica - why scientists are alarmed
For a long time, scientists have worried that Antarctica’s ice shelves might be attacked from below, not just from warmer air above. The concern was that warmer deep ocean water could slowly creep closer to the continent, slide underneath the ice shelves, and start melting them from the bottom up. A new study suggests that this may already be happening.
