Stormy waves traversing the Earth’s core provide new hints into future planetary exploration

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The detection of energy signals from strong winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean that travel through Earth’s core could enhance understanding of our solar system,…

Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Believing and Spreading Fake News

Summary: Individuals who experience high levels of distress and functional impairment from excessive social media use are significantly more likely to believe fake news and interact with it. Researchers found…

Objective pain score? Here’s the problem with that

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Are you in pain? Are you sure? On a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the worst…

Moral Outrage Goes Viral, But Doesn’t Drive Action Online

Summary: A new study analyzing over a million posts linked to online petitions found that while moral outrage boosts a post’s virality, it doesn’t significantly increase petition signatures. Emotional and…

Improving the performance of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cells with inorganic hole transport layers

Schematic representation of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cell with diverse inorganic HTLs Credit: Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2025); DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.112732 Thin film solar cells such as CdTe and CIGSe…

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

A failed Soviet Venus lander’s long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than…

AI-powered headphones offer group translation with voice cloning and 3D spatial audio

Credit: University of Washington Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his…

The biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years: NASA’s lessons and surprises

Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission

A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Google will pay $1.4 billion to…

The greater a woman’s BMI in early pregnancy, the more likely her child is to develop overweight or obesity, study finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) highlights the need to support women and their families with overweight or obesity to…