by News Feed Editor | Feb 24, 2026 | Science
Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a new issue with the rocket set to propel four astronauts on an unprecedented path.The agency announced Saturday that it had detected a problem with flow of...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 24, 2026 | Science
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Two ageing stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives. | Credit: ESO/G. Tomassini et...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 24, 2026 | Science
A centuries-old sword from the time of the Crusades was discovered by a student swimming off the coast of Haifa, Israel, the University of Haifa revealed on Monday.Shlomi Katsin, a student in the university’s Department of Maritime Civilizations, was swimming...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 24, 2026 | Science
When a human says an event is “probable” or “likely,” people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it’s not assessing the odds the way we do, my colleagues and I found.We recently...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 24, 2026 | Science
Questions about what the federal government may know about extraterrestrial life in the cosmos — or possibly even here on Earth — have inspired imaginations, conspiracy theories, sci-fi literature and blockbuster films. Answers to some of those questions could finally...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 23, 2026 | Science
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design. The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly relaxed approach to reproduction.But...
