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By 2023, the number of low-altitude clouds will have decreased dramatically.Busa Photo/Getty Images Changes in cloud cover may be the reason global temperatures have exceeded climate…
Highly contagious avian influenza has been circulating around the world since 2020.Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images The H5N1 avian influenza virus that is circulating around the…
overviewGlobal temperatures over the past two years have been even warmer than climate scientists expected. A new study offers a possible reason: reduced cloud cover. The…
overviewNASA’s next Artemis mission, scheduled to send four astronauts to orbit the moon, has been postponed until 2026, the agency announced.The delay also postpones the expected…
A tsunami warning was briefly triggered for the coasts of Northern California and southern Oregon following an earthquake off the coast of California on Thursday morning.The…
Bees pollinating pumpkin flowers Roman Kaibus/Alamy Treating plants with different types of root-dwelling fungi resulted in larger flowers, and bees visited the plants more often and…
According to a team of astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam, the XX triangular star, a bright K0 giant star…
“Ziplines played a pivotal role in the democratization of space.” Victor Habbick Visions/Science Photo Library/Alamy Even though the price of spaceflight has fallen dramatically in the…
Biblical approach A new book by psychologist-turned-YouTuber Jordan Peterson has been published. we wrestle with god It's a work about how ancient myths and legends, if…
Tencent is one of China’s largest technology companies Cynthia Lee/Alamy Chinese technology giant Tencent appears unaffected by a U.S. ban on exports of computer chips essential…
anatomy: (adjective: anatomical) the study of animal organs and tissues, or the characterization of a body or body part based on its structure or organization. Scientists…
Five years have passed since December 2019, when a clinician in Wuhan, China encountered the first case of coronavirus infection. In hindsight, it is even clearer…
Paul (Timothy Chalamet, right) and Chani (Zendaya) in Dune: Part 2 Provided by Warner Bros. Movies No one looks back on the year that brought us…
Live rats play and fight with robot rodents Shutterstock / Villanor A robot rat on wheels has learned how to interact with real rats while imitating…
There’s a podcast for thatRachel Aroesti has selected the top five unscripted podcasts, ranging from a long-running improv sketch show to a unique music podcast.Off Book:…
overview The southern giant hornet, also known as the “murder hornet”, has been discovered for the first time in Europe. A study last month confirmed that…
Biologists have identified a new gene California poplar trees (Populus trichocarpa) — named booster —It can promote photosynthesis and increase the height of trees. Transgenic hybrid…
Despite conflicting with the results of some recent studies, this new discovery reinforces the claim that Jupiter-based comets like 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko may have contributed to providing water…
Paleoanthropologists believe that the Columbian mammoth (mammoth colombi) are the largest contributor to the diet of the Clovis people, the earliest widespread hunter-gatherer group inhabiting North…
President-elect Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday his intention to nominate billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as the head of NASA.”Jared will propel NASA’s mission of exploration and…
Chemicals in drip water form record of ancient fires in cave structuresJay Alder/Oregon State University When a forest fire breaks out, I run into a cave.…
Living in the desert is a challenge. But the Mojave Desert woodrat has an ace up its sleeve: it can eat poison. This allows the cute…
Robots that can take off like birds could eliminate the need for runways for small fixed-wing drones. Birds use the powerful explosive force generated by their…
Artist's reenactment of a mother and infant eating mammoth meat Eric Carlson/Ben Potter (UAF)/Jim Chatters (McMaster University) An analysis of the bones of a young boy…
This brain implant contains tens of thousands of lab-engineered neuronsScience Co., Ltd. An experimental brain implant containing tens of thousands of living neurons can form cellular…
Weather forecasting today relies on simulations that require large amounts of computing power.Petrovich9/Getty Images/iStockphoto Google DeepMind claims its latest weather forecasting AI can predict faster and…
overviewAn orca was spotted balancing a salmon on its head in coastal waters off Washington state.It's not clear what this behavior means, but killer whales have…
Modern people and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different waysModern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamia: Juha Ranakoski 2024 The inhabitants of Mesopotamia must have known…
Darwin’s ideas began with Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments but ultimately realized that most of…
A mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms has claimed the lives of dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as reported by the country’s health…
The universe is even stranger than you expect Andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand over the…
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, editor of an anthology set in the Wild Cards universe Paras Griffin/Getty Images December is traditionally a quiet month…
For Sally Walling, protists are absolutely underrated wildlife. “Protists are very charismatic and interesting,” says Walling, who studies these creatures at the Earlham Institute in Norwich,…
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of whitefly from fossils found in Miocene crater lake deposits at Hindon Mar, near Dunedin, Otago, South Island,…
Kepler-51 is a 500-million-year-old G-type star that hosts four low-density planets. new paper Published in astronomy magazine. This diagram shows the Kepler-51 planetary system. Image credit:…
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a new type of Neanderthal hearth in Gibraltar’s Vanguard Cave. This hearth structure is consistent with predictions from theoretical studies…
The universe is even stranger than you expect Andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand over the…
Warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi)Andrei Nekrasov/Alamy Stock Photo This may be the closest scientists have ever come to creating Frankenstein's monster. The living parts of dozens…
A small asteroid hurtled towards Earth on Tuesday night before burning up over Russia's far northeast, creating a natural light show for residents of the Earth's…
Astronomers using the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array, an international experiment using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, have discovered further evidence of gravitational wave signals originating from…
