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Scottish starling songgreatonmywall / Alamy The following is an excerpt from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it free in your inbox…
A type of deep-sea angler fish called the black sea devil Doug Perine / Alamy The unique sexual strategy of deep-sea anglerfish may have helped their…
The stars that exist in our universe are definitely huge. In fact, our closest star, the Sun, has a diameter of an astonishing 1.4 million km…
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The Hubble team has released a stunning photo of the face-on spiral galaxy ESO 420-13 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble image shows…
New treatment cuts the gene for kallikrein, a protein involved in inflammation (illustrated) BIOSYM TECHNOLOGIES, INC./Science Photo Library Nine people with a rare genetic disease that…
Tech executives who attended the Congressional hearing: TikTok’s Shou Chu, X’s Linda Yaccarino, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg UPI / Alamy Stock Photo Families confronted Meta CEO Mark…
homo sapiens is connected with Rinkombi Lanisia Yersmanovician Culture According to three papers published in , Neanderthals existed in central and northwestern Europe long before they…
In 2013, Oncilla (Hyōmon)a species of small spotted cat native to the Americas; the northern tabby cat (Hyōmon) and southern tabby cat (Hyōmon). A new study…
Carved pieces of ivory thought to have been used by ancient humans to make rope Conard et al., Sci. Advanced 10, eadh5217 (2024) Researchers conclude that…
Scientists used fitness tracker WHOOP to monitor heart rate during pregnancy Oops Wearing a wrist-strap heart rate tracker during pregnancy may help doctors predict who is…
SAN FRANCISCO — The number of western monarch butterflies wintering in California declined by 30% last year, likely due to the high humidity, researchers announced Tuesday.…
In a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a bone pit that is said to reveal the secrets of early humans. The remains,…
Snow leopard in Ladakh, India Wim van den Heever/naturepl.com India’s first snow leopard survey estimates that there are 718 big cats living in six mountainous regions…
Early European humans may have hunted mammoths in frozen landscapes Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images When modern humans first began to settle in Europe, they headed straight to…
Vacuum chamber that cools four-atom molecules to near absolute zeroMax Planck Institute for Quantum Optics The four-atom molecule is the largest uncooled molecule to just 100…
This hat looks normal, but you can sense it when the traffic light changes colorWang Zhihun Flexible, wear-resistant strands of conductive fibers are used to make…
Previous studies have yielded mixed results regarding the weight loss effects of fasting. Getty Images/iStockphoto/Dobri Dobrev A study of obese people found that eating all of…
Could there be life on a nearby super-Earth?Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy In preparation for one of the most sophisticated surveys of life on other planets, astronomers examined…
Alice comes out of the room.Illustrated by John Tenniel for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in WonderlandGranger Collection/Alamy Stock Photo Patients with the…
Helmets are not an option for these birds. Fortunately, the kingfisher’s genes may protect it when it first plunges its beak into the water. As the…
Could there be life on a nearby super-Earth? Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy In preparation for one of the most sophisticated surveys of life on other planets, astronomers…
The physics of proton gravitational form factors and their understanding in quantum chromodynamics have advanced significantly over the past two decades through both theory and experiment.a…
researchers Genomica Application Laboratory and elsewhere are releasing improved genome assemblies. Arabica coffee (arabica coffee tree)a hybrid of coffee tree and robusta coffee (Coffea genus) contributes…
When you look in the mirror, you may notice slight imbalances in your facial features, such as your nose crooked to the left, a wrinkle that…
amphibian: A group of animals that includes frogs, salamanders, and paper wasps. Amphibians have backbones and can breathe through their skin. Unlike reptiles, birds, and mammals,…
Emperor penguins are the largest species of penguin, often weighing around 90 pounds. However, they also have one of the most precarious breeding methods on the…
Melting permafrost on Russia's Yamal Peninsula (pictured) is exposing nomadic reindeer herders (below) to anthrax.Elena Shchipkova/Alamy In November 2019, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,…
People wait in line to get vaccinated at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Orlando, Florida, United States.SOPA Image/LightRocket (via Gett) People in the United States are…
The ‘fountain of youth’ isn’t locked away in a philosopher’s stone or a mythical body of water, according to new research. In fact, US scientists say…
Data processing and storage centers consume huge amounts of electricityAndrei Semenov, Getty Images/iStockphoto As global demand for Internet services and artificial intelligence continues to grow, the…
Humans and animals have distinct differences, with one of the most fascinating disparities lying in how they perceive the world around them. Variations in visual acuity…
Physicists at the University of Nottingham have used advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques to trap krypton atoms inside carbon nanotubes to form a one-dimensional gas.…
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration resolved the central black hole of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M 87), known as M87*,…
Emperor penguins on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarcticachristopher walton Satellite images reveal four emperor penguin colonies previously unknown to science. During the winter, colonies of…
A new study led by scientists at the University of Göttingen has provided evidence that the first multicellular streptococci probably existed about a billion years ago.…
Candida albicans is a fungus that lives in the body and can affect how quickly you recover from illness.Alexei Kotelnikov/Alamy Literally, we're all a little moldy.…
Insulin injections help control type 2 diabetes Inner/Shutterstock People with type 2 diabetes who lose weight while participating in clinical trials appear to be significantly more…
Myxococcus xanthus bacteria usually feed on other microorganisms. Then their traditional prey attacked them. Eyes of Science/Science Photo Library The two types of bacteria appear to…
Use of Mid-infrared measuring instrument With (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured stunning images of N79, a region of interstellar ionized…
