Here’s your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments

A supermoon rises behind an observation deck in New York City as seen from Hoboken, N.J.,…

Decoding haze sources and formation mechanisms with coal combustion experiments and sulfur isotopes

Sulfur isotope composition of pyrite in coal samples and sulfate produced by coal combustion. (Image from…

Analysis of 160,000 films shows rise in ‘murderous verbs’ since 1970

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The amount of murdering and killing in movies has increased overall over…

From gas storage to next-gen electronics

Illustration of the main topics of this review. Credit: SmartMat (2024). DOI: 10.1002/smm2.1309 A recent study…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before

This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching…

Dripstones from Romanian cave offer insights into climate dynamics in Europe

Cave setting and speleothem samples. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01876-9 Investigations into precipitation…

How UFO sightings can help measure public attention and economic patterns

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, unveils a…

Novel MOF combines adsorption and dissolution for energy-efficient oxygen separation from argon

Breathing new life into technology: New way of separating oxygen from argon. Credit: Ryotaro Matsuda Efficient…

No shallow magma ocean for Jupiter’s moon Io, research suggests

Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to…

Religious people are not more generous than atheists—with one exception

Hajdi Moche and Nathalie Hallin. Credit: Linköping University Religious believers are no more generous than atheists—at…