Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found

The Future as Echo: UFOs, Politics, and the Impossibility of the Present

If the cosmos always appears in delay, then perhaps the human future is not what lies ahead of us, but what the past projects beyond its own limit. The post The Future as Echo: UFOs, Politics, and the Impossibility of the Present appeared first on Florence Daily News.

Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock

What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny mini universe using 24,000 ultracold atoms and showed that the flow of time can emerge naturally from changes inside a quantum system, without relying on any external clock.

The 17 best popular science books of 2026 so far

The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz Else rounds up her favourites

New Zealand cave reveals a time capsule to life before

New Zealand cave reveals a time capsule to life before

Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Friday, June 26, 2026

Read what the stars mean for you today, from Taurus to Aries

Horoscope Today, July 12, 2026: Mercury Cazimi in Cancer Brings a Rare Moment of Clarity for All Zodiac Signs

Sunday does not arrive quietly on the astrological calendar. The daily horoscope today for July 12, 2026, is dominated by one of the rarest and most consequential transits of the entire Mercury Retrograde cycle: the Mercury cazimi in Cancer. At 6:31 PM PT, retrograde Mercury meets the Sun at exactly 20 degrees and 42 minutes of Cancer, an alignment astrologers call the cazimi, a Latin term meaning “in the heart of the Sun.” For a brief window, the planet of communication, thought, and logic is renewed by solar fire, producing a flash of mental clarity that cuts through weeks of

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

Why does Alaska go 65 days without sunrise: The science behind polar night

Why does Alaska go 65 days without sunrise: The science behind polar night

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to launch into space, dies

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to launch into space, died at 87 from natural causes. Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/09/wally-funk-oldest-woman-space-nasa/90869772007/ Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/

July Under Starry Skies

The night skies of this warm summer month would unfold the magnificent mysteries and enchanting enigmas of planets, star...

Columbus hosts two-time Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ira Helfand

Humankind is the closest we have ever been to nuclear catastrophe. The Doomsday Clock symbolizes how close humans are to destroying our planet. As of January this year the Doomsday Clock, set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science andSecurity Board (SASB), is currently set to 85 seconds before midnight. Midnight is the time Earth becomes uninhabitable. Since the Cold War, the United States and Russia have dismantled more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, but 15,000 of these weapons still exist.

The Green Creed’s Faith and Folly

It's too much to hope Chris Bowen will read this overview of the climate-crisis myth. Indeed, the only thing less likely is that he has the wits to grasp any of it

This Week in People’s History, Jul 8-14, 2026

This Week in People’s History, Jul 8-14, 2026 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 07/06/2026 - 19:45

Your Horoscope for Summer’s Mercury Retrograde

This one’s coming in hot!

Astronomers discover Earth’s new ‘next-door neighbor’ — a potentially habitable planet

A newly discovered and potentially habitable exoplanet scientists are calling Earth’s “next-door neighbor” could be the next stepping stone in humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life. “This one’s exciting,” Paul Robertson of the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that “it’s one of our closest cosmic neighbors.” “Twenty-five light years sounds []

The World's First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics

Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei of a radioactive element

Physicist says splashy new cosmology study made ‘elemental’ mistake

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new preprint says that it’s wrong

‘Dark cloud’ lingers over America as the country remains divided for its 250th birthday

Sky News contributor Kosha Gada believes there is a “dark cloud” over America’s 250th birthday, but the “best days can still be ahead". “It is, I believe, the most exceptional country in modern history,” Ms Gada told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus. “Hopefully it will be a good moment for the country to come together despite the country being very divided."

US news roundup: 26 June – 2 July

This week: protecting federal data, surveying the cosmos and requiring financial returns from university programmes The post US news roundup: 26 June – 2 July appeared first on Research Professional News.

DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations Preview: The Doomslayer Returns

An apocalyptic adventure is on the way in our preview of DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations.

We’ve got a date when the sun will destroy Earth – sue us if we’re wrong

There's still enough time to complete that bucket list.

From London's heat wave to COP31: Türkiye's zero waste vision

There was an undeniable irony at the opening of London Climate Action Week 2026 two weeks ago. As world leaders, policymakers and business executives gathered to discuss the future...

If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should we look at first?