A property owner in Pombal, Portugal, discovered dinosaur bone fragments in his backyard in 2017, leading to an excavation that has now uncovered what may be the largest sauropod fossil ever found in Europe. The University of Lisbon announced the find, highlighting the rare preservation of ribs in their original anatomical position.
Researchers at the Tyndall National Institute have engineered a scalable array of electrically driven quantum dots that can produce entangled photons, offering physicists greater control over photon entanglement. The method uses conventional semiconductor fabrication and easily-sourced materials, potentially accelerating progress toward quantum computing.
CBC News obtained hundreds of pages of Canadian military documents showing confusion after Pokémon Go players wandered onto bases following the game's July 2016 launch. Emails reveal officers unfamiliar with the game, with one suggesting hiring a 12-year-old for help, while another noted a possible museum visitor boost.
A new ODNI Global Risk Assessment warns that China is expanding military and commercial activity in space, including capabilities to disable or destroy satellites. Director Avril Haines told lawmakers China is focused on achieving space leadership, while China also prepares to build a new orbital station.
An active-duty US Army soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, has been indicted on charges of using classified information to place over $33,000 in Polymarket bets tied to the US military operation in Venezuela. The case, unsealed in Manhattan federal court, highlights concerns about insider trading on prediction markets.
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed tiny 3D-printed 'micro-fish' robots that can swim through fluids, remove toxins, and potentially deliver drugs to hard-to-reach areas of the body. The technology, still in development, is backed by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers have introduced SD.1932, the 100 Percent Renewable Energy Act, which would raise the state's renewable portfolio standard to 100% by 2035 and phase out fossil fuels by 2050. The bill also aims to eliminate fossil fuel use in heating and transportation and includes a provision for clean energy workforce development.
UK officials are expected to ask people to send fewer unnecessary emails at next year's COP26 climate summit, citing carbon savings. But the BBC notes that one fewer email per person daily would cut only about 0.0037 percent of the UK's annual greenhouse gas emissions, and an expert says the actual savings are likely far smaller.
A five-year European research initiative called FOCAS has concluded after developing robotic bees and fish that blend into animal societies. Researchers say the robots allowed an inside view of honeybee colonies and could eventually help steer bees toward survival as they face potential extinction.
Donald Trump's continued interest in acquiring Greenland may be driven by the island's melting ice revealing valuable minerals like graphite, zinc, and rare earths, according to a New York Times analysis. Greenland lost 105 billion metric tons of ice from September 2024 to September 2025, and its ice sheet has shrunk by 2,000 square miles since 1985, exposing resources as the climate warms.
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is retrofitting a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into HouseZero, a building designed to produce all its own power and achieve the most rigorous efficiency standards for a retrofit to date. The project aims to show that ultra-efficient green design is achievable for average existing structures.
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the boundary where the solar wind gives way to interstellar wind, a 2013 study confirmed through a 40-fold rise in electron density. But under the Sun's gravity and far inside the Oort cloud, the probe has not truly left the solar system.
A Nature commentary by Guillaume Chapron outlines four ways blockchain could improve environmental governance: securing land ownership, tracing supply chains, enabling reliable conservation payments, and reducing corruption. Examples from Ghana, Georgia, Honduras, and corporate adopters like Walmart and Toyota illustrate the technology's broader momentum.
DC Marijuana Justice plans to distribute free cannabis bags to people vaccinated against COVID-19 at select Washington, D.C. locations. The group aims to incentivize vaccinations and recruit recipients for federal marijuana legalization advocacy.
Researchers at Kyushu University's OPERA lab have developed an organic glow-in-the-dark material that emits light for over an hour, far surpassing previous organic attempts limited to minutes. Published in Nature, the work could cut costs for large-area applications like glowing roadways, though oxygen and water sensitivity must be addressed before commercial use.
James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at JAXA, released an animation illustrating how light's speed appears fast on Earth but slows dramatically across cosmic distances. The visualization follows a light pulse from Earth to the Moon and then to Mars, where the wait stretches to about three minutes.
MIT researchers developed a concrete supercapacitor using cement, water, and carbon black that can store and release electrical energy. The proof-of-concept can power a 10-watt LED for 30 hours, and the team is planning a larger version to meet a home's daily energy needs.
Columbia University researchers announced Wednesday they found the first evidence of an exomoon, a moon orbiting a planet beyond our solar system, around Jupiter-sized Kepler-1625b about 4,000 lightyears away. The team used NASA's Kepler survey and the Hubble telescope but cautions the work is preliminary and needs confirmation.
Foundation Robotics Lab's Phantom, a humanoid robot designed for military use, made its public debut as a DJ at San Francisco's Temple Nightclub during the GigaParty event. The robot, which uses he/him pronouns, spun tech house beats for a crowd at an event with tickets priced from $35 to $3,000.
A study in Nature Astronomy reports that high-precision measurements of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, combined with a new method, provide evidence that dark energy may be a dynamical field rather than a cosmological constant. Researchers say future surveys like DESI and the James Webb Space Telescope could confirm the finding.