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Elephants are masters of using hoses. A hose is considered a complex tool because of its flexibility, length, and the physical properties of the flowing water.…
Chimpanzee taking a number test on a touch screenAkiho Muramatsu Audience pressure can affect human performance both positively and negatively, and it turns out the same…
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…
the universe is full of matterMohd. Afza/Shutterstock The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand over the keyboard to…
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…
A type of spiny toad that has several males with a female in the middle. Alois Pichard Every year, large flocks of spiny toads (buffer spinas)…
Coal-fired power plants and wind turbines coexist rather than replace each other in Germany’s Westphalia Mauritius Images GmbH / Alamy More, more, more Jean-Baptiste Freso (Allen…
beetle: An order of insects known as Coleoptera, which includes at least 350,000 species. Adults tend to have stiff and/or horn-like “forefeathers” that cover the wings…
While Elon Musk enjoyed his election victory with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Silicon Valley moguls were focused on the election results. Venture capitalists and executives celebrated…
Tony Blair’s think tank suggests that artificial intelligence may displace 1 to 3 million private sector jobs in the UK. However, the growth in technology is…
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…
brown floating island Sargassum seaweed Andrei Nekrasov/Alamy The big question of the mid-21st century is not how to transition away from fossil fuels (a process that…
Roger Penrose at the Austrian Institute of Science and Technology APA-PictureDesk/Alamy impossible man Patchen Barth (Atlantic Books (UK, November 14). Basic Books (US, November 12)) Many…
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…
Yellowfin marmots live in colonies with a single dominant maleMaria Janicki/Alamy Friendly groups of marmots could help settle an enduring debate in evolutionary theory about whether…
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…
Hairy animals such as rats and dogs shiver to dry. Atikinka 2/Getty Images If you’ve ever been close to a dog that went swimming, you’ve probably…
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…
The Australian government has committed to implementing a minimum age limit of 16 for social media access and imposing penalties on online platforms that do not…
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…
Certain knots, like this trefoil, can form from vortices within the quantum fluid Login/Shutterstock By manipulating quantum fluids, researchers were able to form liquid knots that…
A sheep skull modified by the ancient Egyptians so that the horns extend upward instead of outward. B. de Cupert A sheep with deformed horns is…
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,…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House was anticipated by his biggest supporters before it was official. Elon Musk, a major advocate for Trump’s return to…
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…
