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In a new study, planetary scientists have found strong similarities between the soil of Gale Crater on Mars and that of the cold, sub-Arctic climate of…
“Demographic composition has changed significantly in recent years,” Li Junhua, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said in a news release. The report predicts…
Nut deficiency What happens when you remove most of the nuts from the bolts on three of the four sides of a tall electricity pylon? New…
39,000-year-old mammoth leg Love Darren/Stockholm University The woolly mammoth, which died 52,000 years ago, has been so well preserved that it’s now possible to sequence its…
Broken sea ice in Lancaster Sound, part of the Northwest PassageAllison Cook Shipping companies had hoped that melting sea ice would open up shorter shipping routes…
A special laser (red) can bend electrons (blue) into a spiral shapeDr. Yiqi Fan (University of Konstanz) With the help of a laser, the electrons were…
Current sanitary napkins can cause leaksVittoria/Alamy Sanitary products that turn blood into a gel-like solid substance rather than absorbing it appear to reduce the risk of…
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental illness characterized by an excessively high sense of personal importance, and it is relatively common. Up to 5% of the…
Imagine swimming at night in a river filled with crocodiles and hippos. Sounds terrifying, right? Well, two lions in Uganda did just that earlier this year,…
New genus and species of iguanodont dinosaur named Comptonatus chasei It was explained by PhD student Jeremy Lockwood and colleagues at the University of Portsmouth. Reconstructing…
Using more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence of a 20,000-solar-mass black hole at the center of Earth. Omega…
The recently discovered structure predates the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by approximately 3,500 years and was constructed long before the Inca Empire and its…
Tampons are one of the most popular period products in a growing market that also includes period underwear and menstrual cups. They’ve been around since the…
Brothers Jacob and Tiv in Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaAlex Blaczkowski A pair of lion brothers have completed the longest recorded swim of their kind, crossing…
The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population decline Wirestock/Alamy The European Neolithic culture that produced megaliths like Stonehenge experienced a major decline about 5,400…
This may solve one of the mysteries of breastfeeding. Svetlana Lepnitskaya/Getty Images A newly discovered hormone discovered in mice may solve a long-standing mystery about how…
We don’t tend to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Front to back, left to right, up to down – these are…
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have discovered the underlying cause of lupus, shedding light on a key mystery behind one of the…
Whale remains on the ocean floor being eaten by tiger sharks and other scavengersLaura Gurgas Computer models help predict the drift of dead whales, allowing authorities…
The Antikythera Mechanism is a multi-part device recovered from a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. It is believed to be the remains…
Spreading rock dust on fields can sequester carbon and reduce nitrous oxide emissions.SO-Photography/Alamy Stock Photo Spreading crushed basalt on farmland and using special fertilisers to prevent…
Many of us have a morbid fascination with true crime. Whether it’s the gruesome details or insight into the mind of a killer, our curiosity drives…
Seeing the Northern Lights is a dream for many, and the recent intense geomagnetic storm in May provided that opportunity for some. However, scientists are becoming…
As America celebrates the Fourth of July with flashing lights, barbecues, and parades, our furry friends may not find fireworks as enjoyable. Many dogs can be…
Dingo (Dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depends on understanding their origins and population history. New ResearchIssued…
LHS 1140b is the second-closest temperate transiting exoplanet to Earth, with temperatures cold enough for liquid water to exist on its surface. LHS 1140b could be…
A treasure trove of ancient plant remains unearthed in Kenya helps explain the history of plant cultivation in equatorial East Africa, a region long thought to…
NASA is working on developing the technology to send astronauts to Mars. Early 2030s The mock journey was the first of three planned journeys to the…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that explores wild ideas about manipulating the universe and tests them against the laws of physics, from splitting the moon…
The rats in John Cryan's lab were withdrawn and anxious, behaving in ways that mirrored those who had been bullied at work and who feared they…
Flavored cultured meatYonsei University Lab-grown meat could potentially taste better thanks to aroma chemicals that activate when cooked and give off a meaty scent – or,…
Recent advancements in cultured meat technology are poised to enhance the flavor profile of cultured meat products, making them more akin to traditional meat in taste.…
Thescelosaurinae A group of small to medium-sized herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous. The newly discovered Thescelosaurinae species Fona Herzogae It…
The magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida) is normally green, but this mutant is blue J Barker/AWC A rare blue frog found in the Kimberley region of…
At a test site in Amsterdam, self-cooling artificial turf was tested against regular artificial turf.Joris Forten By absorbing rainwater and allowing it to evaporate on hot…
Michael Mosley This avant-garde science communicator is a colleague BBC Science Focus Contributor, Professor Giles Yeo. Cosmic String Cosmic strings would be the Holy Grail of…
Archaeologists used a new technique called Laser Ablation U-series (LA-U-series) to re-date some of the oldest cave paintings in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi and…
The quasar, called RX J1131-1231, lies about 6 billion light-years away in the constellation Crater. This Webb image shows the galaxy RX J1131-1231 distorted by gravitational…
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continent.Dominique Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient dingo DNA suggests that Australia's native wild dogs arrived in two migration…
A team of paleontologists from Kasetsart University, Mahasarakham University and Sirindhorn Museum have unearthed three fossilized teeth from a previously unknown non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur in northeastern…