Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A crew guided a York County barge equipped with a giant sea vacuum across the waters of Wells Harbor last week.

The planets are aligning. This Saturday is a rare chance to see several of our closest cosmic neighbors in a single sky. Six planets will assemble themselves for a spectacular “planetary parade” that ...

Pouring 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine removed up to 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without harming wildlife, according to the researchers behind an ocean al ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Scientists have observed "coronae" on treetops for the first time, confirming the phenomenon occurs in the wild.

Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when Meteorologist Sarah Spivey demonstrates and explains the science behind it. If you’d like Sarah to come to your school and conduct a science experiment ...

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Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...