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The smell of death typically repels tourists, but in Sydney this week, many people were drawn to the city to witness – and smell – a…
Jurassic Feathered Park The wheel of time turns, the cycle repeats and another Jurassic Park movie is coming out this year. Feedback has faint hopes due…
There’s something about wine experts that misleads people. Wine tasting has become typical of the privileged class, who spend their days drinking deep glasses of swirling…
Manganese nodules on the ocean floor may be a source of oxygen Science history images/Alamy Marine scientists who made headlines last year for their discovery that…
The melodious high-pitched sound of birdsong is not something typically associated with the vastness of space, usually serving as a delightful indication of the arrival of…
Both sides of the US gun control debate meet at a protest in Cincinnati, OhioReuters/James Lawler Duggan rageCurt Gray (Pantheon) We cannot ignore how deeply divided…
Many species of birds use shed snake skin when building nests, but this behavior is poorly understood. In a new study, Cornell University ornithologists used comparative…
Paleontologists have discovered ancient bear footprints in Honseca Cave in northern Spain. Distinguishing cave bear and brown bear tracks is complicated, but cave bears are thought…
Study published in the magazine Natural Earth Science: Planetary researchers used high-resolution images and compositional data captured by orbiting satellites to understand the geology of thousands…
Near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 is in an Earth-like orbit and remained very close to Earth for several months at the end of 2024. 2024 PT5 captured…
A strange continent-sized structure (red) lurks beneath the planet's surfaceEdward Garnero. SW French, BA Romanowicz, Geophys. J. Int. 199, 1303, 2014. Two giant blobs deep within…
Magnetic and optical traps used to cool atoms to near absolute zeroNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Science Photo Library According to the laws of physics, organized systems become…
A new report predicts that power outages lasting more than eight hours will increase in the United States in the coming years due to climate change.…
When astronauts arrive on the moon’s surface, they first encounter a plume of dirt thrown by the spacecraft’s boosters. They will emerge and leave boot prints…
Two similar superimposed patterns create a so-called moiré pattern. This may be related to superconductivity in some atomically thick materials. Richard Germain/Science Photo Library A mysterious…
Generic drugs are pharmacologically identical to their branded counterparts Aegean Blue/Getty Images When people think a drug is cheap, they seem to have worse side effects.…
When animals hibernate, do they dream? The simple answer is no. Hibernation is not the same as sleep. Sleep is a more active physiological state, while…
accountant: A person whose job it is to develop, manage or inspect financial records. artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers.…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, overseeing the Q&A section. Holding an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space and Climate Physics) from…
The decision to urinate involves a complex combination of both physiological and social considerations. However, the social aspects of urination remain largely unknown. More specifically, timing…
Two new species of this genus tuber It was discovered with the help of trained truffle hunting dogs. tuber cumberlandens. Image credit: Saw others., doi: 10.1080/00275514.2024.2407755.…
A massive flood called the Zanclean Flood ended the Messinian salinity crisis that lasted from 5.97 million to 5.33 million years ago, according to a new…
Artist’s visualization of the gas giant WASP-127bESO/L.Calzada The vast alien planet has fierce winds blowing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound…
Donald Trump holds executive order announcing the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images On January 20, a crowd at a stadium in Washington,…
Strategic naps can help you recover from sleep deprivationJean Gaumi/Magnum Photo Sleep researchers devote their careers to understanding how and why we sleep. So what do…
The source of the newly detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is located 2 billion light-years from Earth, on the remote outskirts of an ancient elliptical…
A ridge in southeastern Sicily eroded by the Great FloodKevin Sciberras and Neil Petroni The jumbled deposits of rocks found on a hilltop in southeastern Sicily…
analysis and health The United States contributes about one-fifth of the World Health Organization's budget – leaving the public health agency could hamper efforts to curb…
atom: The basic unit of chemical elements, consisting of a dense nucleus with positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons, orbited by a cloud of negatively charged…
Semaglutide and other GLP-1 agonists are injectedYulia Burmystrova/Getty Images Drugs like Ozempic and Wigovy, called GLP-1 agonists, offer more benefits than risks when taken for their…
Is spacetime a fabric of the universe, or is there something deeper? Shutterstock/Mohd.Afza How is our physical reality structured? Physicists have long imagined that space and…
Paul Brigginshaw/Millennium Images, UK What's the difference between time spent in bed and bank balance? No, this isn't the start of a terrible joke – and…
Wheat is harvested from a strip of vertical solar panels at Next2Sun Solar Park in Germany Knoblauch GmbH/Next2Sun With the price of solar panels falling rapidly,…
dry january An estimated 15% of American adults (260 million people) and 9 million Britons participated in last year’s Dry January. And recent scientific discoveries show…
Have you ever glanced around the dinner table and pondered about your parents’ favorite among your siblings? If you’re the youngest, you might want to look…
Images of two strange icy objects captured by ALMATakashi Shimonishi/Niigata University Two strange icy objects in our galaxy look unlike anything astronomers have seen before, but…
Australopithecus had a varied but plant-based diet, as indicated by stable isotope data analysis from seven human specimens collected in Sterkfontein, South Africa, 3.5 million years…
A century ago, American astronomer Edwin Hubble was the first to prove that this so-called “spiral nebula” lies about 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky…
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the remains of a Byzantine monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and Greek inscriptions, an ancient wine…
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change agreement as one of his first acts in…
