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Quantinuum’s quantum computer thus uses ions confined in a vacuum chamber Quantinum The race to build useful quantum computers is heating up. In September, Microsoft and…
The sun may have heated asteroids to produce a huge amount of water gas. ESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, MA GARLICK (Space-Art.co.uk), Warlic University, Cambridge University. According…
There’s a lot more going on with pigeons than you might imagine. I have always had ambivalent feelings towards pigeons. Pigeons are everywhere in London, where I live, so for me they had faded into the background. I didn’t hate them, but I wasn’t particularly interested in them either. Then a chance encounter made me
This year, from the first civilian moon landing (see “Elon Musk-led private missions boom, space is on sale in 2024”) to the first pig kidney transplant…
New research led by scientists at the University of Bristol shows how lepidosaurs, the most diverse clade of quadrupeds that includes lizards and snakes, evolved an…
Whales’ Romantic AdventuresHumpback whales have left scientists astonished with their epic journey spanning three oceans and over 8,000 miles, establishing a new record for the longest…
This year, herds across the U.S. were infected with avian influenza. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe via Getty Images A highly contagious type of avian influenza began circulating…
A dog wearing a harness may pull with a force that exceeds its body weight.CBCK-Christine/Alamy Even if the device is marketed as “anti-pull,” a dog wearing…
“Hello again!” Pigeons remember individual human faces Martin Parr/Magnum Photo Recently, when I was walking in the park with some friends, they pointed out the pigeons…
Baby Atlantic puffins in Iceland look for moonlight as they emerge from the cliffside burrows where they hatched. It leads them to the sea. However, nearby…
Artificial Intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making demonstrated by a machine or computer. The term also refers to a field of research in which scientists seek…
in new research Published in a magazine frontiers of public healthScientists surveyed 69,705 participants (47.2% women) aged 45 to 83 from the Swedish Mammography Cohort and…
Siberian arctic tundra Shutterstock / Andrei Stepanov Arctic tundra currently emits more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than it absorbs. Rising temperatures due to climate…
of atacama trench It stretches along the eastern South Pacific, dropping to depths of more than 8,000 meters off the coast of northern Chile. dursibela kamanchakaholotype…
dark comet First Interstellar Object 1I/2017 U1 ‘A small object with no detected coma, similar to ‘Oumuamua, with large accelerations that can be explained by volatile…
The Shengshan culture of the lower Yangtze region of ancient China plays a central role in understanding the origins of rice cultivation and early alcoholic fermentation.…
Google announces new quantum chip is the most powerful yetGoogle Quantum AI Google has unveiled a new quantum computer, reasserting its lead in the race to…
Fossils aren't the only thing that shows how humans evolved over timeIvan M / Alamy Stock Photo This is an excerpt from Our Human Story, a…
“Chicken. Chicken. Chicken.” I wake up to my own voice looping like crazy. My half-asleep brain can't understand what's going on. What time is it now?…
Atom interferometers can make ultra-precise measurements of gravity RAL Space/IQO Hannover Extremely cold atoms are being used to measure gravity more precisely than we thought possible,…
Texas data center is full of serversPaul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service (via Getty Images) Data centers could contribute to an estimated 600,000 asthma cases and…
Sea levels were much warmer last year than usual, as seen in July 2023Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF The ocean may remove far less carbon dioxide from…
overviewThis year was the second hottest year on record in the Arctic, according to a new report from NOAA.The authors said the tundra has become a…
Sex in the future is expected to evolve due to technological advancements. While people will continue to engage in sexual activities, the reasons for doing so…
Vampire bats have a diet that consists only of blood. This diet is so specific that they process their food more like blood-sucking flies than any…
average: In the field of science, average refers to the arithmetic mean, calculated by dividing the sum of a group of numbers by the size of…
cortisol abdomen We know that constant, ongoing stress can have a negative effect on the body, and new research has found that it's particularly linked to…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, responsible for the popular Q&A section. She has an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space and…
The Hubble team has released a striking new image of the center of NGC 5643, a spectacularly designed spiral galaxy in the constellation Lupus. This Hubble…
Planetary researcher Tereza Konstantinou and colleagues at the University of Cambridge examined the chemical composition of Venus’s atmosphere and found that the planet’s interior today is…
The spiral arm of Messier 83, one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky, exhibits a high rate of star formation, with six…
These asteroids are as small as 10 meters in diameter, making them the smallest asteroids ever observed in the major asteroid belt. Artist Webb's illustration reveals…
New Zealand paleontologists have discovered a partial skeleton. platypterygoid ichthyosaur It dates back to the Cretaceous period. a pair of Platypterygius sp. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov…
To prove you’re not a robot on a website, you may encounter distorted letters to guess the spellings. This process is known as a CAPTCHA -…
What is disease X? Don’t panic! Disease X doesn’t exist yet, but it might someday. Disease Coined in 2017, the term can be used to mean…
The screwworm larva has a fang-like lower jaw protruding from its mouth. Scott Kamazin/Alamy Countries in the Americas have spent billions of dollars trying to control the New World screwworm since the meat-eating parasite devastated cattle in the United States in the 1950s. But a recent surge in cases in Central America suggests that containment
Researchers trained artificial intelligence model to measure people's age from brain scansLaboratory/Alamy The abundance of 13 types of proteins in the blood appears to be a…
Google announces new quantum chip is the most powerful yet Google Quantum AI Google has unveiled a new quantum computer, reasserting its lead in the race…
In the 1970s, an incredible object was unearthed next to a human skull in a tomb in a Bronze Age cemetery in Shahalui Sokta, Iran. This…