Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
Synchrotron diffraction reveals a hexagonal oxygen lattice in water ice above 200 gigapascals, although the mobile-hydrogen state is inferred rather than directly imaged.
Sep 10, 2026
The first dedicated Russia-North Korea road bridge adds a new logistics route, while its name ties present-day infrastructure to a documented 1946 attack.
Sep 10, 2026
Tianwen-3’s two-launch plan must link a Mars ascent, autonomous orbital capture and sealed interplanetary return before any sample can reach an Earth laboratory.
Sep 10, 2026
On the evening of May 17, 2025, the Mexican Navy sail training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc backed away from a public dock at…
Sep 10, 2026
A 14,300-year-old dog jawbone from Gough’s Cave in Somerset has spent nearly a century in the Natural History Museum’s collections.
Sep 9, 2026
Millions experience burnout's defining symptoms outside the workplace, yet the official diagnosis forbids naming what they endure.
By Nato Lagidze · Sep 9, 2026
The field went from trying to keep AI out of health research to building entire conferences around putting it in—and almost nobody noticed the shift.
By Nato Lagidze · Sep 9, 2026
A Rainbow Serpent in the rock art of western Arnhem Land is a composite creature: a snake body carrying parts borrowed from other…
Sep 8, 2026
A physicist's decades-long crusade to make a spacecraft photograph home from the edge of the solar system produced one of humanity's most consequential images.
Sep 8, 2026
