Science

The meteor sonic boom Massachusetts felt on 30 May came from a fireball that fragmented 40 miles up, releasing energy equal to 300 tons of TNT before falling into Cape Cod Bay.

Parker Solar Probe delivered the closest-ever images, capping a history of solar observation from Galileo to the corona.

Week in wildlife: from a baby pangolin treated for sinusitis to a gorilla super-mum and Formula One geese, a selection of global wildlife images.

Blastoid IVF is moving from lab to market as startups Simbryo and dawn-bio develop tests and optimized media to cut IVF failure rates.

A new study ties low-temperature subduction to Earth's oxygen rise, suggesting plate tectonics enabled an oxygen-rich atmosphere.

River Lugg restoration will take 20-30 years after farmer John Price illegally removed gravel and trees, jailed in 2023, fined £600,000.

IBM Quantum System Two achieved first quantum enhancement in a production LLM, cutting perplexity 1.4% on Llama 3.1 8B with 6,000 extra parameters.

A new petition seeks US seafood sanctions against China for lax shark finning rules, potentially banning $1.5 billion in imports and reshaping global marine conservation enforcement.

The astronaut fitness equipment race is intensifying as European consortia and a Danish aerospace firm compete to supply next-generation exercise devices for the Gateway Space Station and lunar missions.

Canned space drinks made from nanoemulsions give astronauts customizable omega-3 fortified flavors, easing Mars trip monotony.

Montelukast repurposing may reverse immunotherapy resistance in aggressive cancers, an early study finds.

Continuum hypothesis undecidability may force physicists to choose between continuous and discrete spacetime, reshaping research funding and the quest for a unified theory.