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Algae: Single-celled organisms that were once thought to be plants, but aren’t actually plants. They are aquatic, meaning they grow in water. Like green plants, they…
TThere’s a concept that argues video games are primarily for escapism: where else can you pretend to be a US Marine scout (Call of Duty), a…
The winning work is Royal Entomological Society Photography Competition An exhibition has been announced showcasing amazing images of insects from around the world. This tournament Insect…
Tesla announced on Tuesday that it will be recalling the majority of its Cybertrucks in the U.S. due to defects with the windshield wipers and exterior…
Jupiter’s upper atmosphere consists of a neutral thermosphere and an electrically charged ionosphere. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered unexpected small-scale intensity…
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have announced the results of the most sensitive search to date for double…
The report highlighted the importance of establishing a system in the UK to track instances of misuse or failure of artificial intelligence. Without such a system,…
Cygnus X-3It is an X-ray binary system located about 7,400 parsecs (24,136 light years) away in the constellation Cygnus, and analysis of the data indicates that…
The five man-made greenhouse gases identified by astrobiologist Edward Schwieterman of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues could be detected in relatively low concentrations…
Research shows active hydrothermal systems on small ocean planets have the potential to sustain life
Ocean worlds are planetary bodies with liquid oceans, often beneath an icy shell or within rocky interiors. In our solar system, several moons of Jupiter and…
summaryIn the last week alone, extreme weather has wreaked havoc in many parts of the United States and around the world.Climate change is increasing the likelihood…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Tuesday warning officials, health care providers and the public about the heightened risk of dengue…
Pete Burford photographed a damselfly that appears to be peering into a camera lens with … tens of individual light-receiving units, called ommatidia, each with a…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws of…
We tend to think of space-time as the underlying structure of the universe, but whether it’s truly fundamental, or whether it arises from something much deeper,…
CrackerClips Stock Media/Alamy All life as we know it in the entire universe is tucked away on a tiny rock floating in a tiny branch of…
Can you solve this puzzle? Mike Knoop The series of puzzles, which are relatively easy for humans but will challenge today’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence models,…
This robot's face can laughTakeuchi et al. (CC-BY-ND) Researchers say smiles made from living human skin could one day be attached to humanoid robots, allowing the…
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI In a sense, we are at the center of the universe. But that’s because we see the same distance in every direction,…
Transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (cyan) within an infected cell. NIAID Urgent action is needed to stop the spread of a new, primarily heterosexually transmitted, strain of MPOX that has caused more than 1,000 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, say medical experts responding to the outbreak, who fear the disease could
Discovering extraterrestrial life may now become more achievable as scientists explore the possibility of aliens modifying the planets in our solar system to create a warmer…
The Chang’e-6 probe is recovered in Xiziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, China.Xinhua/Shutterstock China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has returned to Earth, bringing back the first chunk of space rock…
Shutterstock/Dr. Norbert Lange We think of this universe as containing everything that exists, has existed in the past, and will exist in the future, but that…
IIn the vast white desert of Salinas Grandes, 45-year-old Antonio Carpanchay raises an axe and chips away at the earth. He has worked the land since…
An astrophysicist and a surgeon walk into a bar. No, this is not the start of a bad joke. A few years ago, an astrophysicist Franco…
The Significance of Happiness: Exploring the Evolution of Astro Bot, the Ultimate PlayStation 5 Game
IEven though it’s the next big game for the PlayStation 5 and it’s in Sony’s DNA, there’s still something Nintendo about Astro Bot. That’s because it’s…
Los Angeles, California — More than two years ago, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Volodymyr Borisenko, a 12th-grader at School No. 28 in Cherkasy,…
Antibody: Any of a number of proteins produced by the body’s B cells and released into the blood as part of an immune response. Antibody production…
TThe state of the art in AI just got a little bit further along: On Friday, Anthropic, an AI lab founded by a team of disgruntled…
Aerial photo of the Antarctic ice sheet David Vaughn/BAS Antarctica’s melting ice sheet could retreat faster as warmer ocean water invades underneath it, and rising ocean…
Do you own a precious and adorable cat? If so, your feline friend may be obstructing your view of this page and causing havoc once again,…
The choice to name a new project the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) may come across as presumptuous. Dark energy, you see, is completely unseen; it…
Slugs and snails have a unique way of moving. They travel at a slow speed of about 1 meter per hour (3 feet per hour) using…
The Moon, Earth’s steadfast companion that remains in orbit, has been a popular subject of discussion since the early days of space exploration. Missions have been…
An object thrown straight up can be modeled by the equation v^2/2g, where v is the initial velocity of the object and g is the acceleration…
The ancient ship and its cargo are estimated to date to the 13th century BC, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. Canaanite amphorae…
High concentrations of free amino acids in tea leaves are important for tea’s flavor and health functions, but their biosynthesis, transport and turnover in the tea…
According to a multi-trait systematic study led by the Federal University of Pará, ornithologists Silver-cheeked anteater (Sacesphoroides cristatus) It actually represents not one but two species.…
Jet engines emit large amounts of ultrafine particlesAerovista Luchtfotografie/Shutterstock The health of more than 50 million people living within 20 kilometres of Europe's busiest airport is…
