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The India-US Nisar satellite captured a rare eruption of Russia’s Krasheninnikov volcano, which started after a July 30, 2025 earthquake. The volcano erupted for the first time in 500 years. Matthew Pritchard said, "The consistency is crucial. This shows the promise of Nisar to closely monitor natural hazards." It tracks lava flow.
Noaa flew a plane inside Category 5 Hurricane Polo on September 22. The aircraft passed through dense clouds into the eye to measure wind speed and air pressure. Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir also captured a view of the storm from space, noting that the hurricane appeared massive from the station.
A new study found that dogs process human speech using a pattern previously considered uniquely human. Scientists discovered dogs use consonants to break sounds into words. "This is the first evidence that a consonant bias can also emerge in the brain of a species other than humans," said Kinga G. Tóth.
Claude Elwood Shannon, the MIT professor born on April 30, 1916, is the man behind the name of the popular AI chatbot. Known as the father of information theory, he showed that data could be sent using ones and zeros. He also loved juggling and built early machine learning tools.
SpaceX completed a wet dress rehearsal for Starship Flight 14 on September 24. The team loaded propellants into the rocket to check ground systems before the launch. Flight 14 is now targeted for Monday, September 28, from Starbase in Texas. This mission aims to finally send the massive rocket into orbit.
Scientists said bats first originated in Europe 65 million years ago. A study of genomes and fossils showed these mammals spread to every continent except Antarctica. Co-author Sonja Vernes said, “Even today, we know that some modern bats can migrate thousands of kilometres and live in very diverse climates.”
Researchers at the University of Otago developed a new tool to mutate bacteriophages, as featured in Nature Microbiology. Professor Peter Fineran said, "This new development is a big leap in how we can rapidly understand phage biology." This method helps scientists identify essential genes to better use phages against bacteria.
Nasa technology built for Mars is now revealing 2,000-year-old hidden secrets on Earth. The decorrelation stretch technique helps archaeologists uncover faded paintings and ancient rock art. Jon Harman said, "I knew from my medical imaging experience that I could do it, so I did." Many researchers now use this tool.
Scientists gave worms magnetic bacteria and found they lived 43.39% longer. The study, published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, showed that the bacteria AMB-1 helped preserve neurological function. Researchers said the findings "establish a new microbial strategy for anti-aging intervention" by reducing iron buildup and preventing cell death.
A new study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics shows how quantum fields get trapped in false vacua. Researchers Robson Christie, Jaewoo Joo, Greg Kaplanek, Vincent Vennin and David Wands used a model to explain this. David Wands said, "A vacuum is rather a state in which a field sits."
Scientists discovered a new cellular survival pathway that could help fight cancer, as published in Nature Chemical Biology. Lead author Ed Schmidt said, "We have discovered a previously unknown system in mammalian cells that can take over when the main systems fail." This finding challenges long-held beliefs about cell life.
New research from MIT suggests magnetism helped build the Solar System. Scientists studied grains inside a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 2008. These grains formed during the solar system's first 200,000 years. Benjamin Weiss said, "It has long been theorized that gravity caused this, but our measurements show magnetism likely played a role."