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Satellite Galaxy Crater II The Milky Way's Crater 2 (or Crater 2) is located in the constellation Crater, about 380,000 light-years from Earth. This galaxy is…
Unexpected surprise: Giant fish thought to be sunbathing on Oregon beach turns out to be a curiosity
The name “sunfish” is of Latin origin and means “milestone,” referring to the flat, circular body of this fish, which is known to drift along the…
Plastic particles (red) are colonized by marine fungi Parengyodontium albumAnnika Vaksma/NIOZ Fungi that live on floating trash in the North Pacific Ocean are able to break…
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…
Astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and Christer Fugelsang aboard the International Space StationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) How spaceflight affects astronauts' health may be…
adbobe stock/Erika Eros/Alamy/collar Ryan Wills Deep inside a black hole, the universe is warped beyond comprehension. Here, at a minimum of infinite density, the fabric of…
The Humboldt penguin populations along Chile’s central coast have seen a significant decline, making them one of the most at-risk species out of the world’s 18…
TBrandishing an iPhone that he boasts is more than seven years old, Hibault Hug de Larose says, “It works great.” Not what you’d expect from a…
Rare Earths Norway, a mining company, has made a groundbreaking announcement of discovering Europe’s largest proven deposit. This discovery of rare earth elements is highly regarded…
James Webb Space Telescope image shows thousands of extremely distant galaxiesNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team The universe’s first stars were giant monsters thousands…
AI, whether it stands for artificial intelligence or Apple intelligence, is a hot topic today. It’s time to have a conversation about it. [sits backwards on…
antenna: (plural: antennae) in biology, refers to a pair of long, thin sensory organs found on the head of insects, crustaceans, and other arthropods. In physics,…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, responsible for the popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (Hons) in Geosciences (Space and Climate Physics)…
Graviton It is one of the four fundamental forces, but what is gravity? It is made of? A quantum theory of gravity doesn’t exist (yet), but…
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a new suite of generative artificial intelligence products and services during the keynote address at the company’s annual developers conference, WWDC.…
There is a growing trend in the beauty industry to seek treatments for bloating and cellulite, with lymphatic drainage massage becoming increasingly popular among A-list celebrities…
Have you ever experienced a gig so bad that you can now laugh about it? I have a memory of performing at village festivals, outdoors, for…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope NGC 2005A globular cluster located in the constellation Dorado, 162,000 light years from Earth. This Hubble image shows the…
The Solo 4 headphones are an improvement on the fan-favorite headphones that made Beats famous, upgraded with longer battery life, improved sound quality, and the latest…
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the so-called Sacramento in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.…
Planetary scientists first became aware of the connection between Earth and Jupiter in 2018, when they noticed striking similarities in images of Jupiter's giant cyclones and…
A cold, dense cloud in the Milky Way’s interstellar medium is about four to five orders of magnitude denser than its diffuse counterparts, and a team…
Paleontologists have redescribed Epitornoceras bardisi Using new fossils from the Chigua Formation, researchers have uncovered a mysterious species of ammonite cephalopod that lived in the Devonian…
WASHINGTON — African elephants communicate through calls and respond to their own names, a behavior rarely observed in the wild, according to a new study published…
In recent decades, scientists have observed a decrease in atmospheric moisture leading to drying soils, water-starved plants, withering vegetation, and increased forest fires. This phenomenon is…
American Museum of Natural History Recently, I visited the Ice Cold: Hip Hop Jewelry Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The…
Illustration of a black hole sucking gas from a star Stocktrek Images/Alamy A star appears to be engaged in a deadly dance with a supermassive black…
Much of the sun’s heat is trapped in the Earth’s atmosphereMurataruto/Shutterstock Earth’s atmosphere currently traps more than twice as much excess heat as it did in…
Lava flowing from Hawaii’s shield volcano Kilauea Tomas Miczek/Alamy eruptionMichael Crichton and James Patterson (Century (UK), Little, Brown (US)) If you were the creator of a…
Enzymes that help copy these DNA strands are likely to be most accurate when they act quickly. Alexey Kotelnikov / Alamy Stock Photo Speeding up these…
View of the frost on Mount Olympus ESA/DLR/Free University of Berlin As winter mornings dawn on Mars, the summits of the planet’s largest volcanoes are covered…
Today, we have two questions about fascinating objects that we will share with you along with their answers. 1. Pythagoras’ Cup Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician and…
Two young elephants greet each other in Kenya's Samburu National ReserveGeorge Wittemyer Elephants may be the only animals other than humans that give each other random…
Quantum computers may one day threaten encryption, but not yetBoykoff/Shutterstock Quantum computing experts are baffled by the new export restrictions the UK government has imposed on…
Ekaterina Saviorova/Getty Images If you’re a gardener who has been on a social media platform in the past five years, you’ve likely seen posts like this…
Analysis of millions of tweets shows the changing meaning of the word “bot” Svet foto/Shutterstock Calling someone a bot on social media once meant suspecting they…
Illustration of a protection bubble around the sun (yellow dot) and the earth (blue dot)Harvard Radcliffe Institute Two to three million years ago, the solar system…
