Year: 2024
used by astronomers CSIRO's Australian Telescope Compact Array captured the most detailed radio images ever seen of the 47-member Tukanae star cluster, the second brightest globular…
NASA’s Stardust mission returned rocky material from the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 (pronounced “Wild-2”) to Earth on January 15, 2006. Comet Wild 2 contains volatile…
Paleontologists from the CSIC National Museum of Natural History have identified a new genus and species of medium-sized cat from a partial jaw found in the…
According to a new study, Greenland’s ice sheet has lost approximately 1,965 square miles to glacier retreat since 1985, which is about the same area as…
looking at viruses under a microscope Kokada/Getty Images What is disease X? Do not panic! Disease X doesn’t exist yet, but it might someday. Disease The…
The pursuit of profits from artificial intelligence by big technology companies is reckless. Urgent action is necessary to mitigate the risks from this rapidly growing sector,…
Robot dodecahedron mounted on a submersible (circled area) brennan phillips The robotic dodecahedron can capture fragile deep-sea animals, collect tissue samples, and build three-dimensional scans of…
Over the past few decades, both men and women have benefited from improvements in medical care.ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Women have historically lived longer than men, but…
Tardigrade observed using a fluorescence microscope.Some organs are highlighted with fluorescent markers Smythers et al/PLoS ONE (CC-BY 4.0) Tardigrades are known for their ability to withstand…
Apple overtook Samsung as the world’s top smartphone seller, ending the South Korean tech company’s 12-year reign as the industry leader. According to statistics from International…
Two weeks before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, I flew to Tucson, Arizona, and knocked on the door of a suburban ranch-style home. I was…
Google made a promise in July 2022 to remove location data of users who visited abortion clinics. However, little progress has been made in fulfilling this…
The Guardian has revealed that social media companies relying on artificial intelligence software to manage their platforms are producing unworkable reports on child sexual abuse cases,…
Geometric problems involve proving facts about angles and lines in complex shapesGoogle Deep Mind Google DeepMind's AI can solve some International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) problems in…
The year was 1974. While newspaper columnists were busy talking about the development of in vitro fertilization and the possibility of “test tube babies,” the surprising…
TikTok’s tarot card reader looks at me through the screen and draws a card. “If you’re watching this, this is made for you,” she said. And…
Researchers created tornado-like vortices in superfluid helium Yoshigin/Shutterstock Giant quantum vortices could allow researchers to study black holes. This vortex is a special form of liquid…
I He grew up in an era when preadolescent friendships were formed by huddled around a desktop computer and watching YouTube video after YouTube video. unicorn…
Interestingly, the gamma-ray signal detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has a similar orientation to another unexplained feature produced by some of the most energetic…
BIt's easy to feel a kinship with pop star Selena Gomez, considering her 430 million Instagram followers, reported net worth of $800 million, and close relationship…
PIf you're of a certain age, there's no doubt that you have fond memories of the paper instruction manuals that once came with every video game.…
WWhen the weather is nice, Buxton Boarding School moves lunch outside. Students, faculty, staff, and guests grab food from the kitchen and eat together under a…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that in order to help Tesla become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics, he would require at least 25% of…
If men were encouraged to play outside as children, they may have better navigation skills than women Colin Hawkins/Getty Images/Image Source In fact, men tend to…
Ibex can be at risk from wolves if they move around at nightrobert andrighetto Alpine ibex have become increasingly nocturnal to escape rising daytime temperatures, despite…
Many of us have felt some amount of stress over the past few years. Exhibit A for me is my teeth. A recent trip to the…
Infrared image of Saturn’s icy moon TitanNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Stephane Le Mouelik, Virginia Pasek Saturn’s moon Titan is home to strange “magical islands” that appear and…
A female octopus lays her eggs near a small rock outcrop, informally known as El Dorado Hill.ROV Subastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute Four new species of deep-sea octopus…
'Groundbreaking': Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrixalamy stock photo I Professor of Physics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia He is also the author…
cloned rhesus monkeyZhaodi Liao et al. After many years and many attempts, a healthy rhesus monkey was finally created by cloning. The clone was born in…
TThe Post Office Horizon scandal has long been a frustrating one to follow as a technology reporter. Because even though it stems from the failure to…
Climate change denial has taken on a new focus, according to a recent report from the Center for Digital Action. Instead of denying that the planet…
IIn early November, I was standing in a long line at Van Gogh’s gift shop in Amsterdam to buy a Pokemon ballpoint pen. It was one…
IDuring the blissful summer that Hemesh Chadarabada spent with his grandmother in 2018, they watched endless movies and ate her grandmother's chicken biryani. Late one evening,…
Bitcoin (BTC) closed last week at around $41,750, down 5.0% from the first week of the new year, to close at around $43,750. The price showed…
A coronavirus vaccine is being administered at Epsom Racecourse in Surrey, England. PA Image/Alamy Around 7,000 people in the UK would have avoided dying or being…
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet passing by the young Sun-like star HD 63433. HD 63433d is located close…
Brazilian anthropologist reconstructs ancient human face Homolonghi This comes from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. portrait of Homolonghi. Image credit: Cicero…
New research from the University of Bristol has revealed the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magma on the Moon. A map of titanium abundance on the moon's…
Fish caught in discarded nets in the Great Pacific Garbage PatchOcean Voyages Institute/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock It was a bright sunny day in September 2023. Excitement filled the…