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A tourist at Masaya Volcano. (INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images) Thousands of tourists come to check out the 'Mouth of Hell', a lava lake inside Masaya Volcano, each month, and millions more people live nearby. Given how many people are on and around this well-and-truly active volcano, scientists are keeping a very close eye on what it's up to. Now, it appears two reservoirs of magma lurking within the volcano are active at the same time. Those are the findings presented in Geophysical Research Letters by a team from Pennsylvania State University, based on Sentinel-1 satellite radar images taken roughly every 12 days for six years. The volcano's famous lava lake is just a small surface feature of the much larger volcano complex, which researchers are still trying to understand, so they can better understand what risks face nearby residents and the droves of tourists that come through daily. Around 2 million people live in close proximity to the volcano. Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away.

NASA’s Artemis II crew traveled around the Moon and back and, along the way, captured stunning imagery and scientific observations of our nearest neighbor. NASA is making the full lunar science dataset from their journey available Wednesday to the global science community and the public for further study. More than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data – some previously unreleased – have been uploaded to NASA’s Planetary Data System, the public archive for NASA’s planetary missions. This data release includes more than 11,000 full-resolution images and video of the Moon from the crew’s handheld cameras and the Orion spacecraft’s cameras, 8.5 hours of audio recordings of the crew’s scientific observations of the lunar surface, and crew-annotated images.

President Trump is giving awards to a number of top tech executives at a summit on Thursday.

Railroad buffs visited Union Pacific Railroad's historic steam locomotive, No. 844, after its arrival at Denver's Union Station in April 2006. For the first time since 2019, Union Pacific’s Living Legend No. 844 will be hitting the rails with Big Boy No. 4014. These historic locomotives will be together for a special holiday tour this November.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will award Elon Musk and other leading American innovators the nation’s highest honors for scientific and technological achievement Thursday, Fox News Digital has learned, marking Trump’s first time presenting the awards. "The Trump administration is grateful for the contributions of these incredible leaders in science and technology. These recipients are helping ensure America keeps leading the world in innovation," White House spokesperson Liz Huston told Fox News Digital. The honorees, who will be recognized at the White House’s Science: A New Golden Age Summit, include some of the most powerful figures in American technology and mark Elon Musk’s latest return to Trump’s orbit after his high-profile departure from the administration and subsequent public rupture with the president.

Opening in March 2027, the Saint Louis Science Center will host a new exhibition entitled Death by Natural Causes. The Death by Natural Causes exhibition explores the science behind nature’s unexpected dangers.

Seeing fine lines or wrinkles in the mirror is a stark reminder that your body is growing older, even if you still feel young on the inside. A loss of collagen contributes to some of the first outward signs of aging, and it usually begins in a person's 20s. But guzzling collagen peptides in powders and drinks may do little to reverse that trend – despite what companies, celebrities, and influencers might claim. A fresh appraisal of the evidence suggests that the popularity of collagen supplements is outpacing the rigor of the underlying science. The article is published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, authored by biostatistician David Robert Grimes from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and UK-based dermatologist Anjali Mahto. It explains why the research on collagen supplements for skin aging is full of cracks. When Grimes and Mahto reviewed two meta-analyses published in 2021 and 2023, they found errors, including confused statistical measures. One meta-analysis even reported a nonsignificant finding as significant. When Grimes and Mahto corrected this data, they found no significant relationship between collagen dose and improvements in hydration or elasticity.

Timekeeping has officially entered its nuclear age. Two independent teams, one in Vienna, Austria and another in Beijing, China have built working thorium-229 nuclear clock prototypes. Rather than track changes in an atom’s electrons the way that current atomic clocks do, these nuclear versions use a laser that’s tuned to the frequency where a thorium nucleus flips between two energy states for potentially even more accurate time keeping. Scientists believe this new approach could one day make the clocks far more reliable than any existing atomic timekeeper. To put that in perspective, current atomic clocks can  keep time with an uncertainty of 1 second every 300 million years. Scientists predict that more advanced nuclear clocks could move that metric into the billions of years. That could open the door to probing some of the universe’s hardest-to-measure phenomena, like notoriously elusive dark matter. The Chinese clock and Austrian clock were detailed in a pair of studies published this week in the journal Nature.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:The Durupinar formation is an enigmatic geological feature on Turkey’s Mount Ararat, and archaeologists continue to explore it as a possible resting site of Noah’s Ark. Recent soil sampling suggests the unique formation included concentrated organic material, such as wood. All tests remain preliminary, and further laboratory analysis may provide more details on the mystery of Mount Ararat. The mystery of Turkey’s Mount Ararat took another boat-shaped turn, as archaeologists dipped into the soil of the Durupinar formation in search of Noah’s Ark. The results offer a mixed bag of possibilities, with further analysis needed, but clues point toward a high concentration of organic matter that offer an intriguing possibility for the site’s history. The highest point in Turkey has fascinated researchers since they first identified the boat-shaped formation in 1959. Now, though, teams of researchers have finally drilled into the site in search of answers.

Global dementia cases, driven mainly by population growth and enhanced life expectancy, are skyrocketing at the moment. Experts anticipate that by 2050, 153 million people could be living with the disease – triple the number today. Meanwhile, progress towards a cure has been sluggish. The brain is immensely complex, and our understanding of how dementia is caused and eliminated changes all the time. Even developing drugs capable of crossing over the blood-brain remains a challenge.

The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one of two mirror image forms of a molecule. Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science in Japan have been awarded the prize “for the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday. They will each receive an equal share of a prize of 12m Swedish kronor (about £900,000). Many molecules, including amino acids that form the building blocks of proteins, can exist in two forms that contain the same atoms, but are mirror images of one another, much like a person’s left and right hands. This property is known as chirality. However, the chemistry underpinning life is surprisingly “homochiral”, or same-handed. Proteins are built almost exclusively from L-amino acids, while the sugars that form the backbone of DNA and RNA have the opposite D- configuration.

image: Conceptual overview of how RED-ONION, a next-generation data transfer infrastructure, can be used to accelerate AI for Science Tokyo & Osaka, August 21, 2026 — The University of Osaka, D3 Center (*1), SANKEN (*2), and NEC Corporation (*3, NEC), have jointly developed RED-ONION (Research EnhanceD Osaka university Next-generation Infrastructure for Open research and innovatioN), a next-generation data transfer infrastructure designed to securely and rapidly transfer large volumes of research data—including sensitive data related to genomics and healthcare, as well as the results of its analysis and processing—in both directions between the D3 Center and SANKEN on the

New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard a threshold question in Suncor Energy (U. S. A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County: whether cities and counties can sue oil companies for climate damages under state law, or whether federal law bars those suits before they begin. Dozens of similar cases are pending in state courts, seeking billions from energy companies for harms caused by global climate change. While the Suncor complaint itself is vague on how to determine the precise economic damages caused by the defendants, subsequent litigation has relied more and more on event attribution that apportions the increased likelihood of a natural disaster, and its proportional economic harms, to the effects of global warming and even to specific emitters. In May of this year, the Breakthrough Institute filed an amicus brief in Suncor, petitioning the Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that localities and other private parties could sue emitters under state tort law. Then in July, the National Academies of Sciences released a report summarizing the state of the climate impacts attribution literature.

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Earth's center of mass does not stay perfectly still. As water, ice, and air move around the planet with the seasons, they redistribute enough weight to push the center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to Earth's geometric center. NASA scientists carefully track this subtle motion because Earth's center of mass serves as an essential reference point for satellite navigation and measurements of surface elevation.

This is what the 2026 Nobel prize for chemistry is all about The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists, Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science in Japan. Their discoveries showed how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one of two mirror image forms of a molecule. Science journalist Linda Geddes tells Madeleine Finlay how this has become an important tool in drug development, allowing a greater understanding of how medicines work in the body