Year: 2024
Recent studies have revealed the significant role of the gut microbiome, a vast community of microorganisms residing in the digestive tract, in influencing the body’s response…
After centuries, it has been discovered that long-standing beliefs about some of the inhabitants of Pompeii were not as accurate as previously thought.Recent DNA analysis of…
Apple’s 2024 upgraded MacBook Pro ended the year on a high, with a significant power boost from the M4 chip, twice the memory than standard, longer…
Sedimentary mineral deposits discovered on the surface of Mars may be the remains of ancient oceans from 3.5 billion years ago. New results from China's Tianwen-1/Zhulong…
A team of scientists from the University of Arizona, Delft University of Technology, and the California Institute of Technology's Lunar and Planetary Institute has developed a…
overview Much of the Northeast is in drought after an unusually dry and warm start to autumn. Nationally, October was one of the driest months on…
Plaster statues of those who died at Pompeii. DNA testing revealed that the adult on the right was a man unrelated to the young child in…
Topographic map of Mars showing Utopian plains that may have once been an oceanUnited States Geological Survey Possible ancient coastlines have been discovered in a region…
Elon Musk will board a private jet in Beijing in 2023Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images Researchers say private jet flights should be subject to a carbon…
Liverpool fans crowd to watch the on-field VAR screen at Anfield Stadium Alex Dodd – CameraSport via Getty Images If you’ve watched any football, or even…
Difficult to separate oil and water without leaving behind impuritiesAbaka Press/Alamy A mixture of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping it through narrow…
Farm workers exposed to infected dairy cows found to have avian influenza antibodiesHelen King/Getty Images There may be more human cases of avian influenza in the…
New DNA analysis has shed light on the victims of the Pompeii disaster, challenging previous assumptions. Researchers from the United States and Italy conducted a recent…
GGiven the influx of bad news from the gaming industry over the past 10 months, it’s no surprise that this weekend, sitting in a crowd of…
aEvery New York Millennial — and any parent — will be familiar with Pokemon cards, a mainstay of newsagent hustling since the turn of the century.…
The U.S. Supreme Court discussed Meta’s Facebook’s attempt to dismiss a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders. The lawsuit accuses the social media platform of…
Nobody wants to hear about men making comebacks right now, especially when it doesn’t involve Frank Skinner. Skinner left Absolute Radio’s breakfast show in March after…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long events detected from beyond the Milky Way. The radiative properties of FRBs favor magnetars as their source, as evidenced by…
Archaeologists used a laser-based detection system to discover more than 6,500 Pre-Hispanic structures in Campeche, Mexico, including a previously unknown Mayan city named Valeriana. Details of…
Archaeologists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known evidence of intensive loess mining at least 48,000 years ago at Lion Cave in Ngwenya, in the…
DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms important for controlling gene expression in eukaryotes. Arabidopsis. Image credit: Carl Davies, CSIRO/CC BY 3.0. DNA methylation is…
Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t spot it and somehow stop…
When it comes to natural disasters, it is often impossible to predict them more than a few months or even days in advance. We cannot say,…
A new study led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institutet, and Linköping University has revealed a landscape view of the human sense of…
Even though he knows a bit of Welsh and building regulations, he refrains from comparing Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer or delving into the complexities of…
Elon Musk is facing a proposed class action lawsuit from registered voters who participated in a sweepstakes by signing a constitutional petition, hoping to win a…
Bitcoin has reached record highs amidst speculation on Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, with many viewing him as a candidate supportive of cryptocurrencies.…
Astronomers using the VLT survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile 283 million pixel image of the Dark Wolf Nebula. This image was taken by…
Newly discovered tardigrade species using genome, transcriptome and proteome analysis Hypsibius henanensis scientists investigated the molecular basis that contributes to radioresistance in these small invertebrates. Schematic…
A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurs have been identified from two specimens discovered in Inner Mongolia, China. rebuilding the life of Yuanyang Long Bai…
Breast cancer cells metastasized to the liver Connect images / Alamy Global cancer deaths are expected to nearly double by 2050, primarily in low- and middle-income…
Administrative innovations in Southwest Asia in the fourth millennium BC, such as cylindrical seals wrapped around the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundation for one of…
Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common…
There has been a debated stance that children below the age of three should have no screen time, but research indicates that digital technology can offer…
The Soy Habzak trenches in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley are the remains of several Paleolithic occupation phases rich in stone tools, fauna, and charcoal remains. The Soi…
Hello. Welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, technology news editor at Guardian US. In today’s newsletter, we discuss the final form of X, learnings from a…
Fibers from wet wipes can get mixed into fertilizer if flushed down the toilet.Linda Kennedy/Alamy The natural fibers increasingly used in wet wipes can actually have…
IIt’s one of the biggest injustices in video game history that the Sega Saturn is widely considered to be a failure. The console was released in…
The first cosmonaut to cast a vote from space was actually a cosmonaut (individuals trained by the Russian Space Agency for space travel) who flew from…
Cylinder seal and its design engraved in clay Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum) The origins of the world’s oldest known writing system may be…