Month: October 2024
Hello. Welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, technology news editor at Guardian US. I’m taking over TechScape from Alex Hern. In this newsletter I would like…
Carbonate minerals are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of which are implicated in habitability, making them of particular interest in paleoenvironmental…
John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton jointly awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Christine Olson/TT/Shutterstock The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to John Hopfield…
overview A group of young evangelical Christians is planning a campaign at religious universities to persuade students to think about climate change at the voting booth.…
There is a possibility that Gray Whale could become the next Olympic champion if it surpasses Simone Biles. This speculation comes from a recent study that…
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured a striking new image of the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 5248. This Hubble image shows the Grand…
To detect low-frequency vibrations, geckos use the saccule, a part of the inner ear traditionally associated with maintaining balance and body position, the institute’s biologist duo…
A new study by palaeontologists from the Universities of Leicester, Birmingham, and Liverpool John Moores University shows that pterosaur limbs had an unexpectedly high degree of…
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-nosed notothids from fragmentary remains found in Brazil's Adamantina Formation. Epoidesuccus tavaresae is a new species of…
On Monday, a spacecraft was launched to investigate. Space collision site. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft was rocket-launched on a two-year journey to the small,…
The Milton, which is expected to make landfall along the Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday evening, is sailing through unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico.…
A shimmering sea creature known as a comb jelly exhibits incredible abilities. Despite being injured, two comb jellies can fuse into one body without experiencing tissue…
Few people celebrate their 100th birthday.Comet/Getty Images/iStockphoto Will you live to be 100 years old? For the average person, the answer is probably no, as life…
When it comes to cuteness, it’s all subjective. Depending on the species, baby sharks can be as small as palm-sized infants like small spotted cat sharks…
Approximately 50,000 collision avoidance maneuvers were performed by satellites in SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in the first half of 2024. This number reflects the growing concern about…
Between 10% to 15% of California’s wildfires are caused by arson annually, a trend that seems to continue in 2024. With the impact of climate change…
ILog in to Dave Winer’s blog. script news you’ll see constantly updated notes that tell you how many years, months, days, hours, and seconds your blog…
Although we’re more connected than ever, we’re all pretty alone right now. In fact, we’re so lonely that the World Health Organization has declared a “loneliness…
Xibalbanus turmensisThe poisonous remipede, found in the caves of Antiarin on the Yucatan Peninsula, is the only crustacean for which a venom system has been described.…
A team of marine biologists led by researchers at Florida International University has described a new species of shark. Sphyrna Native to the Caribbean and Southwest…
Samples from asteroid RyuguJAXA Future astronauts may be able to eat a nutritionally complete meal made from bacteria grown on crushed asteroids, creating a type of…
Andrew Carter and Adam DiMartino launched Smallhold in 2017 with a goal of providing mushrooms to more people. Carter believed that mushrooms are highly sustainable in…
Amazon has been attempting to enter the gaming industry for quite some time. Despite having abundant resources and hiring top designers, progress has been slow. However,…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk into a sweaty, dusty club on a desert planet from Star Wars? What would be…
Evidence of antimatter in cosmic rays has been discovered by scientists, suggesting the potential existence of a new type of particle. These particles could be a…
Play is a widespread behavior in distant species, and its social form relies on complex communication. Playful communication has been largely ignored in marine mammals. In…
Centaur is a former trans-Neptunian object that has been moved within Neptune's orbit by the planet's subtle gravitational influence over the past several million years, and…
Previous studies have found signs of ice in permanently shadowed regions near the moon’s south pole, including areas within the Cabeus, Howarth, Shoemaker, and Faustini craters.…
OverviewMore than 50 heat records were broken in the western United States on Wednesday.Daily temperature records include highs of 108 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix and 106…
Many of us entered this so-called super-election year with a sense of foreboding. So far, not much has happened to allay these fears. Russia’s war against…
blushing chicken People, humans, blush. Chickens are not entirely inhuman, either, in that they express emotions through the skin on their faces. Delphine Soulet and colleagues…
Sodium valproate is an effective drug for epilepsy, but its consumption is not recommended during pregnancyMiljan Zivković/Shutterstock The drug rapamycin may prevent the epilepsy drug sodium…
TThe first expansion story for Bethesda’s space RPG comes after a year of updates that have fixed the game’s flaws. Quest-breaking bugs are gone, there are…
Thunderclouds include more than just rain and lightning. In addition to visible light radiation, thunderclouds can produce powerful bursts of gamma rays that last one millionth…
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and others have discovered pockets of living microorganisms in mineral-filled veins in 2 billion-year-old rocks taken from South Africa’s Bushveld…
The Galapagos Islands are equatorial islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean, approximately 900 kilometers (500 miles) west of northern South America. Scientists have identified more than…
This fall marks 10 years since we launched the Guardian Long Read. Looking back now, it’s hard to remember how counterintuitive this idea was at the…
Upon entering my department’s weekly Astro Coffee Journal Club some years ago, I was immediately struck by an existential crisis regarding the future of our planet.…
According to some researchers, the moon may have been captured during a close encounter between young Earth and the Earth binary (a system consisting of the…
In August 2024, ESA’s Jupiter ICy satellite probe (JUICE) made history with its daring Moon-to-Earth flight and double-gravity assisted maneuver. When the spacecraft passed the moon…