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Sharing access to smartphones can be divisive Frazao Studio Latino/Getty Images Do you share your smartphone PIN with your partner? Over half of those surveyed believe…
Octopuses like the Dorain Octopus may have some degree of consciousness.Victor1153/Shutterstock Below is an excerpt from our nature newsletter, Wild Wild Life. Sign up to get…
summary Four poultry workers in Colorado recently fell ill with avian flu, bringing the total number of cases in the United States to nine. Almost all…
Matt Crosick Media Assignment/PA Images/Alamy Rowan Hooper: Your latest book is Doppelganger: A Journey into the MirrorWhat is this world? Naomi Klein: The mirror world is…
Japanese honeybees flap their wings to knock down ants that try to invade their nest. Ants often invade honeybee hives to steal honey, prey on eggs,…
New Research has introduced an innovative and cost-effective method for diagnosing autism, potentially simplifying and speeding up the diagnostic process. Surprisingly, the new diagnostic test might…
During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., residents were trapped under ash and rock, unable to escape. Surprisingly, a new study shows that some…
Argentine archaeologists analyzed 21,000-year-old fossil remains bearing cut marks belonging to a specimen of the extinct glyptodon. NeosclerocalyptusThe discovery, made in the northeast of the Pampean…
Bolivian coffee growers Amazon Weasel (Neogare Africana) Surveys were conducted near shade-grown plots as part of a citizen science monitoring program. Amazon Weasel (Neogare Africana): They…
Harenadraco Prima It is the first species of troodontid dinosaur to be discovered in the Late Cretaceous Barungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Reconstructing your life Harenadraco PrimaImage…
summary A nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold at auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $44.6 million. Sotheby’s, which handled the auction, said the fossil was the…
The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone.Kate Otter The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs attack…
Next year I will be turning 40. It seems a bit irrational. I feel almost the same as when I celebrated my 20th birthday. I have…
CoulombFly, a prototype of a small solar-powered droneWei Shen, Jingze Peng, and Mingjin Qi Weighing just 4 grams, the drone is the smallest solar-powered aircraft ever…
The black-necked spitting cobra lives mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.Luca Boldrini (CC BY-SA) A commonly used blood-thinning drug could prevent hundreds of thousands of people bitten by…
A jellyfish-shaped robot made from magnetic fluid can be controlled with light through an underwater obstacle course, and swarms of these soft robots could be useful…
Inflammatory molecules (green) are found in liver tissue from aged mice.Anissa A. Wijaya et al. 2024 Blocking an inflammatory molecule known as interleukin-11 (IL-11) extends the…
Depicts ancient humans butchering a glyptodon 21,000 years ago in South America Damián Volino, A. Scasso Museum of Natural Sciences (Collegio Don Bosco), San Nicolás de…
When mixed with hydrogel, protein-based drugs can remain effective for longer at higher temperatures. Shutterstock/Renko Alex Many medicines need to be kept refrigerated or they become…
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It's now well established that to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we need to get to net zero carbon emissions as quickly…
The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone. Kate Otter The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs…
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that’s five times the mass of Jupiter and follows a very unusual orbit around its star. Artist’s impression of TIC 241249530b.…
Recent evidence suggests that Venus, long thought to be geologically inactive, may actually have active volcanoes. This discovery was made after a thorough examination of images…
Ultraluminous infrared galaxies are the rarest and most extreme star-forming systems and are found only in the distant universe. Radiative distribution of stars, cold gas, and…
Saturn’s moon Titan was explored by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and 2017. Although Cassini revealed much about this Earth-like world, its radar observations provided limited…
A recent study reveals that climate change is fundamentally reshaping the Earth, impacting its core. The melting of polar ice caps and glaciers due to global…
2023 Perseid meteor shower observed in Chinese grasslandsCynthia Lee/Alamy The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best opportunities to see hundreds of shooting stars, and…
Hurricane Beryl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on July 5th.Associated Press/Alamy Hurricane Beryl strengthened from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in just one day before…
Diamond has excellent semiconductor propertiesRichard Kael/Science Photo Library As the U.S. power grid struggles to meet historic increases in electricity demand, diamond semiconductors could dramatically improve…
Amoebidium appalachenseViruses in protists closely related to animals weave remnants of ancient giant viruses into their genetic code, according to a new study led by Queen…
Pluto is a dwarf planet NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute While a mathematical formula for determining whether a space object should be classified…
Pwadol Jatrawuttichai/Alamy About 450 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, there is an abandoned mine. Despite its remote location, it is attracting attention because of the role…
Titan’s north polar region, imaged using Cassini’s radar signature, shows blue hydrocarbon oceans.NASA / JPL-Caltech / Italian Space Agency / USGS The most detailed look yet…
Physicists have been intrigued by χc1(3872), also known as X(3872), since its discovery two decades ago. They have been exploring whether it is a conventional charmonium…
Astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to obtain and analyze morning and evening transmission spectra of the hot Saturn exoplanet WASP-39b, which orbits a…
We all have to deal with the uncomfortable topic of bowel movements, and the frequency at which we have them can vary greatly from person to…
Drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed in North America over the past 20 yearsVictor Musa / Alamy A pacemaker-like device that would be implanted under the skin…
To prevent a fate similar to the dinosaurs, The European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated work on a groundbreaking planetary defense mission known as the Rapid…
Anatomist: A scientist who studies the organs and tissues of animals (including humans), sometimes characterizing the body and its parts based on structure, function, and even…
US paleontologists have described a new genus and species of extinct crocodile relative based on a partially articulated skeleton found in the Middle Triassic Fossil Hill…