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In late last year, Duan*, a Chinese university student, bypassed China’s Great Firewall using a virtual private network to access the social media platform Discord. He…
ohOn September 1, 1974, two men made the fastest trip ever between New York and London. Traveling three times the speed of sound and taking less…
summary Increasingly frequent and intense heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some of the desert plants known to thrive in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and…
The residents of Okinawa, Japan, are known for their longevity, attributed to their nutritious plant-based diet and a concept called “ikigai,” which translates to having a…
The debate on whether cats or dogs are smarter has been ongoing for ages. Dogs typically have larger brains than cats, with more neurons in their…
Photos of planets, nebulae, and distant galaxies taken with modern telescopes show beautiful images, but the real story lies in the spectrum of light. Astronomers are…
The world’s most popular Social network X has been taken offline in Brazil, the country with the world’s fifth-largest digital population, after it was blocked by…
oh One day in 2017, I had a realization that was both obvious and shocking. Almost everything I engaged in was fueled by computer code. As…
The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered the suspension of social media platform X’s activities in the country as the company failed to appoint a legal…
THus’ kingdom is a rural idyll, with happy villagers wandering around the market, the young shepherd Len tending his flock and his partner Tyra repairing the…
Modern telescopes capture stunning images of planets, nebulae, and galaxies, but the real treasure lies in the spectrum of starlight that reveals the composition of celestial…
isDuring this long, hot, dreary summer, I’ve come to believe in only one thing: seeing Twisters in 4DX. Set in Oklahoma, this Lee Isaac Chung-directed film…
Embark on a journey through the most peculiar corners of the cosmos, where the laws of “normal” reality are left behind. Explore places where time can…
When taking common antibiotics, moderate alcohol consumption is generally not a major concern. However, one antibiotic, Metronidazole, is known to have serious interactions with alcohol. This…
circleWhen Pavel Durov faced criticism from Russian regulators for promoting adult content on his social media platform VKontakte, he responded by changing his Twitter handle from…
NGC 261 is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diffuse nebula NGC…
Archaeologists say Genovesa Cave Discovered in Mallorca, the main Balearic island and the Mediterranean's sixth largest, the find suggests that humans settled in the western Mediterranean…
Recent respiratory disease epidemics have attracted a lot of attention, yet most respiratory monitoring is limited to physical signals. Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is packed with…
An AI-generated replica scene from the computer game Doom ID Software Recreating classic computer games with AI Doom It's playable without any computer code or graphics,…
The U.S. Pacific Army’s 2022 high-altitude balloon launch in the Philippines was part of an exercise aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two countries. The US…
Polarized light can erase messages encoded in quantum holograms Hong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailing Ang, Jensen Lee 2024 The quantum evanescence phenomenon makes it possible…
A research team from Finland and Norway has identified two candidate anti-toxic compounds against enteric pathogens. E. coli Marine actinomycete strains from the bacterial metabolite (EPEC)…
Mpox commonly causes blistering and scarring lesions. CDC/Associated Press/Alamy There has been a surge in chickenpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and some of…
summaryResearchers are experimenting with biosensors that can monitor workers’ vital signs and provide warnings if they show signs of heatstroke. The four-year study involves more than…
NASA has announced that it will proceed with undocking the unmanned Boeing Starliner spacecraft by Sept. 6 after completing its review.Last week, NASA revealed that the…
JWST image of a small red dot galaxyJosephine, F. W. Budgen et al. (2024). A strangely bright galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
Atmosphere: The outer layer of gas that surrounds Earth or another planet or moon. Aurora: A light show in the sky caused by high-energy particles from…
David Bennett Jr. knelt at his bedside, phone in hand, anxiously waiting for the call he’d never received before: The hospital was supposed to update him…
Illustration of a rapidly rotating brown dwarfNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology Dark matter-fueled brown dwarfs may be lurking in the centers of galaxies, and if astronomers can…
An illustration of three of the four satellites that make up the Cluster mission, which monitors Earth's magnetic field ESA – CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Scientists…
circleWhen it comes to video games, they all have one thing in common: Releasing one game is hard. But releasing 50? All at once? That’s a…
Desert Cicada NestNatural History Museum Board of Trustees/Jonathan Jackson Some of the nests pictured are built primarily from dry grasses, such as the nest of the…
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Ocean Explorer teams work together to tag Greenland sharksMario Tadinak/National Geographic Ocean ExplorersNational GeographicDisney+ There is a prominent X in the middle of the title. Ocean…
aWith school starting back up, the pressure is on for parents to get their kids their first mobile phone, and when you decide the time has…
“There’s no moon, but the sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way in the Atacama DesertAlamy Stock Photo Chapter 1 Everything you touch changes. Everything…
I I’m dying. I found some life expectancy calculators online that put me at either extremes of 84 or 54, and I’m turning 55 in December,…
Driving these days can be quite challenging with traffic jams, road construction, and unexpected hazards causing delays to your daily schedule. But imagine if things were…
The impact of intergroup conflict on demographics has long been debated, especially in prehistoric and non-state societies. In their study, scientists from the Complexity Science Hub,…
Potato fibers can be spun into soft, cotton-like balls.Five As pressure grows for the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impact, fabric made from discarded potato…