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With more than 5,500 exoplanets detected, the search for life is entering a new era. Astrobiologists from Cornell University and the University of Minnesota have used…
Physicist from CMS cooperation at CERN just published the combination of CMS measurements that helped establish the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. CMS event…
A tractor spreading powdered concrete at a silicate testing site in Irelandsilicate carbon A field trial in Ireland suggests that pulverizing the world's vast amounts of…
Brown dwarfs, often referred to as “failed stars,” are a fascinating type of celestial object. They are too large to be considered planets, yet too small…
bacteria: (singular: bacterium) a single-celled organism. They live almost everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the ocean to the insides of other living things (such…
Chromosphaera perkinsii resembles an early stage in the multicellular stage of animal embryonic development dudin lab Originally found in shallow sea sediments around Hawaii, the unicellular…
According to reports, on the night of November 3, 1888, numerous sheep were frightened and ran off from multiple farms in Oxfordshire. The next day, they…
Bumblebees may be more resilient than previously thoughtAaron Bastin/Alamy A lab error has revealed that hibernating bumblebees can survive for at least seven days even when…
A rogue wave is a single swell that is much higher than nearby waves and can cause damage to ships and coastal infrastructure. Ocean waves are…
An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date for coffee arabica, the world's most popular coffee species (arabica coffee tree).…
Tardigrades can withstand amazing amounts of ionizing radiation, about 1,000 times more lethal than humans. How they do so is not fully understood. In a new…
Pluto's surface is dominated by Sputnik Planitia, a giant pear-shaped basin. Although it appears to be of impact origin, modeling has not yet accounted for its…
Parts of the Middle East were hit by heavy rains on Tuesday, leading to school closures in the United Arab Emirates and flooding at Dubai International…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that explores wild ideas about manipulating the universe, such as splitting the moon in half or triggering a gravitational wave…
In 2006, New York Fed economists began to worry that the U.S. housing market was overheating. Worried that the bubble would burst, they used their best…
Tubular legs on the underside of a chocolate chip starfish Matthew McHenry and Eva Canso Starfish can fly hundreds of feet in a coordinated manner, but…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers discovered a nearby binary system of massive stars orbiting a dormant star-derived black hole over a period of 11.6…
NASA confirmed that a piece of metal that crashed through a Florida home last month was space debris from the International Space Station. The 1.6-pound object…
Cyborg cockroaches tested in desert-like terrain Yang Bai et al. (2024) A remotely controlled swarm of cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target location while avoiding…
Note: A phenomenon in which mental resources are focused on a specific object or event.average: Term (in science) for arithmetic mean. The sum of a number…
This artist's impression shows the orbits of both a massive stellar black hole and its companion starESO/L. Calzada Astronomers have discovered Gaia-BH3, the largest stellar black…
Rogue Planet Some planets cannot follow the same orbit throughout their lifetime. Some are set free and wander alone in the vast, empty darkness of interstellar…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, where she oversees the popular Q&A section. She earned an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space…
Three new species belong to the extinct genus Kangaroo Protemnodon was a common member of Cenozoic communities in Australia and New Guinea until extinction in the…
Archaeologists from Necmettin Erbakan University have announced the discovery of the world’s oldest known bread, dating from 6600 BC, at the famous Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük…
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Invertebrates are highly sensitive to heat stress, so coral health is closely linked to seawater temperature. Corals turn whitish when stressed. release symbiotic algae They live…
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay, prisoners live in a hostile alien world. Gremlin/Getty Images alien clayAdrian Tchaikovsky (Thor) service modelAdrian Tchaikovsky (Tor, released June 6th) British author Adrian Tchaikovsky will publish not one, but two new novels in the first half of this year. That may be due to the vagaries of publishing rather than
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI In the middle of the last century, psychologist Abraham Maslow investigating The basis of happiness. When interviewed about people's lives, many…
Fiber-optic cables designed to carry telecommunications can also be used to map the Earth’s interior. Connect World/Shutterstock Offline communication cables called “dark fibers” can be used…
Huge mouth of a small nematode Sarah Wiggard and Ralf Sommer / Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen Tiny soil insects called nematodes usually feed on…
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images For Bill Gates, artificial intelligence is the most important invention since the Internet and personal computers. For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, it will…
Ryan’s will.Klaus Wedfeld/Getty Images Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in a hole? Newsflash: Yes, you are. Astronomers call it a “local hole,” but that’s…
Bull sharks may be vulnerable to cold upwellingMartin Prohaskatz/Shutterstock The upwelling of cold water from the deep ocean to the surface can be deadly to marine…
Aggregates of protein α-synuclein (brown) and antibody (green) Biolution GMBH/Science Photo Library Drugs that target protein accumulations associated with Parkinson's disease may slow the progression of…
Ants, despite their small size, can release strong-smelling chemicals when threatened or crushed. For example, reindeer ants emit a chocolate-like odor when irritated, while citronella ants…
In August 2021, ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft bound for Mercury Performed a second flyby of Venus, providing short-term observations of its guided magnetosphere. The spacecraft detected cold…
During sleep, we can sporadically find patterns of neural activity in areas of the bird's brain that are activated during song production. Recently, it was found…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken photos of NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. This Hubble image shows…
Research led by Liangxue Lai from China’s Guangzhou Institute of Biomedical and Health Research has successfully extended the survival time of human stem cells in animal…
