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Acidic: An adjective that describes a substance containing an acid. Acidic substances are known to dissolve minerals like carbonates or prevent their formation.average: A scientific term…
Activation: (in biology) to turn on something like a gene or a chemical reaction.Annual: adjective describing something that occurs annually. (botany) A plant that only lives…
During the experiment, electrodes were placed on their scalps to record their brain activity, and a computer screen showed them when to move. Robin Ritter/Leibniz Institute…
A recent study suggests that women may have improved cognitive performance during their menstrual cycle. The research conducted by University College London (UCL) and the Institute…
Aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen are painkillers that work in different ways. Aspirin is an anti-inflammatory and blood-thinning medication that is used for pain relief and heart…
Using high-resolution color images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Trace Gases Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express missions, planetary researchers have found evidence of morning frost…
A team of scientists from Colorado State University, Save the Elephants and Elephant Voices used machine learning to: African savanna elephant (African brown) The calls included…
Dinkinesh is a small asteroid orbiting the Sun near the inner edge of the main asteroid belt. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that this asteroid, with…
The newly discovered species, estimated to weigh about 10 kg, Bronius Manfredschmidyis the smallest known hominid. Danubius GuggenmosThis ape lived in what is now Germany about…
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…
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…
Chicks seem to associate sounds with specific shapes Pazardzhik Lviv/Shutterstock To humans, some words seem to go well with pointy or round shapes, and the same seems to be true for chicks. Research has shown that people tend to associate the nonsense word “bouba” with round shapes and “kiki” with sharp shapes. Many studies have
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…
Semaglutide, sold as Ozempic or Wegovy, is taken as an injection to treat diabetes and promote weight loss. Mark Brussels/Alamy Stock Photo The weight loss and diabetes drug semaglutide may also help people reduce their alcohol intake. The study of about 700,000 people taking the drug, sold under the brand names Wegobee and Ozempic, adds
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bikash Tataiya had never heard of Texas-based Colossal Biosciences before the company announced its plans to resurrect the dodo last year. The company, best known for trying to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, said it had made significant progress in genetically engineering a dodo-like bird that it would transport to Mauritius, one of the Mascarene Islands
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…
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…