A team of scientists has created a daily scalp hair growth serum, using a tropical plant-based extract, that has proven to regrow hair and improve hair thickness in just 56 days.
The test enrolled 6… [+5534 chars]

New plant-based serum promoted hair growth and boosted hair density by 25% in eight weeks using growth factors and natural vesicles.

Earth.com

New plant-based serum shown to regrow hair in weeks, according to scientists - Earth.com

An astronaut circling above the Indian Ocean onboard the ISS captured a stunning image of the moon and what is called a “lunar halo.”
The slim arc of light cradling the Moon looks detached from Eart… [+4454 chars]

An astronaut on the ISS photographed a "lunar halo" over the Indian Ocean, revealing ice and rare optical phenomena from space.

Astronaut photographs a beautiful phenomenon called 'lunar halo' - Earth.com

Medium

3I/ATLAS Sheds Particles that Are Much Bigger Than Common Sunlight-Scattering Dust - Avi Loeb – Medium

An unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent ten miles beneath it.
The vehicle, called Ran, had spent weeks scanning an ic… [+5407 chars]

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

Submarine finds anomalous structures in Antarctica, then loses the signal - Earth.com

One of the closest living relatives of the dodo
 has been spotted multiple times in Samoa — raising hopes that this critically endangered creature can be saved from the brink of extinction.
The Sam… [+4994 chars]

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

Live Science

Last of its kind dodo relative spotted in a remote Samoan rainforest - Live Science

For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle. This idea, then, became the central component to quantum theory, sprouting the field of science… [+5962 chars]

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

One of the most important scientific findings in history may be wrong, shredding centuries of physics - Earth.com

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New … [+8219 chars]

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New Guinea and Australia by modern humans, Homo sapiens—refining…

Phys.Org

New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests - Phys.org

If youve ever been on a plane, youre probably familiar with what cloud tops look like: generally white and fluffy, with dips of blue-gray here and there. But the physics behind cloud tops had long pu… [+4076 chars]

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Gizmodo.com

Clouds Are Weirder at the Top Than We Thought - Gizmodo

In a study published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Julien Hiquet and Dr. Rémi Méreuze analyzed the remains of a unique mosaic-style patolli game board discovered in the Classic Period city of Naac… [+5814 chars]

In a study published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Julien Hiquet and Dr. Rémi Méreuze analyzed the remains of a unique mosaic-style patolli game board discovered in the Classic Period city of Naachtun, Guatemala.

Archaeologists discover unique mosaic patolli board at Guatemalan Maya city - Phys.org

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a significant discovery on Mars: a meteorite, which could provide vital clues about the planets past and its interactions with space objects. The rover has been exp… [+3409 chars]

Perseverance has just uncovered something that doesn’t belong to Mars, and possibly not even the solar system.

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

NASA's Biggest Mars Find Yet: Perseverance Rover Spots Something Mysterious from Outer Space! - The Daily Galaxy

For most of his life, Michael Comberiate has preferred to look at the world, as he says, upside down.
With his hands on the ground and feet in the air, the retired NASA engineer has kept meticulous … [+74 chars]

Mike Comberiate, 77, has done handstands everywhere from the North to South poles. Cancer has slowed him down, but he’s determined to do more.

The Washington Post

Meet ‘NASA Mike,’ who’s done 105,000 handstands around the world - The Washington Post

They may not be home for Christmas, but astronauts in space are finding their own way to make the season bright. They've even hung their space stockings by the airlock with care.
Four astronauts on … [+4336 chars]

They won't be home for Christmas, but that's okay.

Space.com

Astronauts beam home Christmas wishes from International Space Station: 'I think we may be orbiting a little higher than Santa' (video) - Space

A brief, intense flash illuminated the Moons dark surface this month, recorded by telescopes at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium in Northern Ireland. The event, lasting less than a second, mark… [+4147 chars]

A sudden flash on the Moon has stunned astronomers, captured live from Earth in a rare, crystal-clear moment of cosmic impact. The brief explosion has revealed something unexpected about the Moon’s surface and what’s still striking it today.

Indiandefencereview.com

Something Just Smashed Through the Moon, and Astronomers Captured the Whole Event From 380,000 Kilometers Away - Indian Defence Review

Astronomers have identified a distant, slow-moving object in historical sky surveys that may represent a previously unknown ninth planet orbiting far beyond Neptune. The object, observed at an extrem… [+5034 chars]

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s faint signal and strange motion suggest something big is lurking in the dark.

Astronomers Announce Evidence That Our Solar System Has Nine Planets Once Again - Indian Defence Review

Reindeers may not have noses that glow red in the night, but they do have a marvelous body part that changes color in winter darkness.
In 2013, scientists discovered that reindeer eyes change hues w… [+3448 chars]

Reindeers may not have noses that glow red in the night, but they do have a marvelous body part that changes color in winter darkness.

ScienceAlert

Reindeer Eyes Do Something Incredible When Winter Comes - ScienceAlert

Christmas is a wonderful time for those who celebrate and once the turkey dinner is done and the wrapping paper has been tidied away, there's always one last treat that we all can share — the majesty… [+4609 chars]

The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving.

Christmas 2025 skywatching guide — What you can see in the night sky on Dec. 25 - Space

Milestone: James Webb Space Telescope launches
Date: Dec. 25, 2021
Where: Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana
Who: NASA, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency scientists
On a clo… [+4036 chars]

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

Science history: James Webb Space Telescope launches — and promptly cracks our view of the universe — Dec. 25, 2021 - Live Science

In the summer of 2025, a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. While that is not one of the five largest earthquakes ever recorded, that is still impr… [+911 chars]

Using an ocean-tracking satellite and NOAA buoy data, NASA has made a picture of a monstrous tsunami produced by the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake.

NASA's Satellites Captured A Terrifying Picture Of A Giant Tsunami - bgr.com

How do you search for invisible hypothetical particles? One way is to see how quickly they could kill white dwarfs — the dense, leftover cores of dead stars.
In recent years, astronomers have become… [+3475 chars]

The axion could be a contender to explain the mystery of dark matter.

What old, dying stars teach us about axions as a candidate for dark matter - Space

Inner view of the large electrostatic spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN), the world’s most accurate neutrino scale. Credit: Michael Zacher/KIT, KATRIN collaboration
H… [+5861 chars]

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet they are some of the most abundant matter particles in the U…