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Giant reed warbler migrating between Europe and Africa AGAMI Photo Agency / Alamy Stock Many migratory birds use the Earth's magnetic field as a compass, and…
Wildfires in the tropics caused a slight increase in CO2 emissions, but most of that was due to burning fossil fuelsCarl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images Carbon dioxide…
By combining artificial intelligence and Google Street View imagery, “digital twins” of hundreds of thousands of trees across North America were created. The simulations could help…
international space stationMSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey won Britain’s highest fiction award, the Booker Prize, for her novel. Orbitalcreated a new genre of nature writing about space. “I…
Marine biologists from Queensland Museum Kurilpa have described a new species of hermit crab. Strigopagurus fragachela (Common name is Strawberry Claw Hermit) Lives from the continental…
Human cognitive abilities can be greatly influenced by the presence of an audience. Although often associated with reputation management, which is thought to be unique to…
The first-ever fragment of Antarctic amber was discovered in a sediment core on the mid-shelf of Antarctica’s Pine Island Trough. Pine Island Amber. Scale bar –…
Starship during high altitude test flight space x SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket. The company has…
Earth is not doing so well. Thanks to human-induced climate change, oceans are warming and rising, while land in many places is suffocated by drought or…
A number of prominent French newspapers have declared their intention to take legal action against social media platform X for freely distributing their content. The collective…
Mauna Loa eruption in December 2022 T. Orr, U.S. Geological Survey Thanks to a new understanding of what triggers the eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the…
The Standard Model predicted that the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope would observe a faint signal from a small protogalaxy. However, the common hypothesis that invisible…
Hello. Welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US technology editor. Newsletter of the Week: Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to create a “Department…
Search for ghost particles The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), currently under construction in China, will uncover the secrets of nature’s most elusive elementary particles, the…
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A leading scientist who has worked closely with wealthy individuals to address the dangers of AI suggests that Elon Musk’s influence over Donald Trump’s administration could…
A recent study has revealed that exposure to air pollution may increase the risk of children developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research indicates that pregnant…
High concentrations of rodenticide were detected in the liver of red kiteTheOtherKev/Pixabay Birds of prey are being killed across the UK by widespread misuse of rodenticides,…
Bluesky, a social media platform, saw a surge of over 700,000 new users in the week following the US election, as users sought refuge from misinformation…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, overseeing the Q&A section. With an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space and Climate Physics) from…
Overview A recent report has highlighted the concerning state of Earth’s snow and ice, indicating that various key climate tipping points are more likely to be…
This amazing new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the best ever of a galaxy combination called MCG+05-31-045. This Hubble image shows…
New research suggests Voyager 2’s approach to Uranus in 1986 occurred during an uncommon solar event
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, scientists got their first close glimpse of the giant icy planet. Alongside the discovery of new…
Accurate description of low-density nuclear matter is critical to explaining the physics of the neutron star’s crust, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by…
A new genus and species of Ankylosaurus has been identified from an articulated partial skeleton discovered in southern China in 1986. artistic reconstruction Huaxiazhou Longshouwen. Image…
Voice training data has been ignored when it comes to AI evaluationIsrael Palacio/Unsplash Artificial intelligence models that generate speech are trained on potentially biased, offensive language,…
РоманЗаворотный/Adobe Stock You've probably already noticed that the prices of many foods in your shopping cart have increased significantly. In the UK, the price of white…
The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) brings unexpected benefits to the ecosystem All photos of Canada/Alamy Two years after Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a…
Uranus is more normal than we thoughtNASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Uranus’ strange magnetic field may be much less strange than astronomers first thought, and it could…
A great white shark attacks a dummy seal during an experiment in which lights were used to deter shark attacksNathan Hart, Macquarie University Lighting the underside…
Bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice were used to estimate past temperaturesaldiami/Andreas Alexander/Alamy Humankind has already caused around 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming since the start of…
Scientists from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology and Durham University conducted a study on a collection of 406 carved schist tablets discovered at the Magdalenian site…
The textile and leather industries pollute water through dyeing and tanning, and plastic pollution from synthetic fibers. In particular, the chemicals used by synthetic chemical manufacturers…
“Of course, providing emotional support should be at the heart of any good relationship.”Skynesher/Getty Images After a recent book talk, an audience member said this about…
The PlayStation 5 Pro was announced in September, and people immediately reacted in disbelief at the £699/$699 price tag without a disc drive. Accounting for inflation,…
Ice collapsing into the water at Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina RM Nunes/Alamy Delaying reaching net-zero emissions by just a few years…
New research suggests how skateboarders behave You can use math to spice up your halfpipe game. Tricks like kickflips and ollies require speed. Skateboarders gain speed…
Bitcoin prices surged above $82,000 for the first time as traders speculated on Donald Trump’s potential support for the cryptocurrency upon his return to the White…
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aAs anyone who has pointed their phone’s camera at a foreign menu recently knows, machine translation has come a long way since the early days of…
