Follow-up observations by Webb confirm GRB 250702B is most energetic cosmic explosion ever recorded

Ex-McLaren boss could take the wheel at Porsche

Porsche has been struggling with Chinese competition and US tariffs. The former head of British supercar maker McLaren could take over as CEO of Porsche, the German firm said Friday,…

OpenAI halts MLK videos as deepfakes spark outrage

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI has suspended its Sora 2 artificial intelligence tool from creating videos of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate complained about disrespectful…

A rice weevil frozen in flight won the 2025 Nikon Small World photo contest

Carly Kay is the Fall 2025 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in science…

US military greenlights up to 100 SpaceX launches per year from California

Many more rockets may lift off from California next year. On Oct. 10, the Department of the Air Force approved SpaceX‘s proposal to launch up to 100 missions annually from…

Lisieux Fuzessy | Beyond coevolution: The flexible rules of fruit-frugivore interactions  – Functional Ecologists

Have you ever wandered through a tropical forest and observed the incredible variety of fruits it contains? From tiny berries to very large, hard-shelled pods, this fruity menu supports a…

Quantum networks bring new precision to dark matter searches

What do MAHA and MAGA supporters think about vaccines?

At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump established the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to examine the…

Protein powders and shakes contain high amounts of lead, new report says – a pharmacologist explains the data

Powder and ready-to-drink protein sales have exploded, reaching over US$32 billion globally from 2024 to 2025. Increasingly, consumers are using these protein sources daily. A new study by Consumer Reports,…

How new foreign worker visa fees might worsen doctor shortages in rural America

There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That may sound like a lot, but the country has struggled for decades to train enough physicians to meet…