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This night view of southern Europe looks from Milan, Italy, northwest to southeast (bottom right), across the Adriatic Sea to Split, Croatia. At the time this…
New study shows that humans, not climate, caused decline of megafauna 50,000 years ago New research from Aarhus University confirms that it was humans, not climate,…
Uranus’ moon Miranda NASA/JPL/USGS Uranus’ moons can have short-lived atmospheres with each season. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, can…
Hubble drifts over Earth after being released by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 19, 2009. Service Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth visit…
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a quantum erasure device to correct “erasure” errors in quantum computing systems. The technique allows fluorescent error…
Déjà vu, the feeling of reliving an experience, is a subject that intrigues many people. Recent scientific research suggests that this phenomenon may be caused by…
Quantum computing has advanced significantly with a new platform from Harvard University that is capable of dynamic reconfiguration and can demonstrate low error rates in two-qubit…
Scientists have discovered a new instability in plasma, revolutionizing our understanding of cosmic rays. This groundbreaking discovery reveals that cosmic rays generate electromagnetic waves within plasma…
Department of Biological and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University December 15, 2023 Scientists at Harvard University’s Department of Biological and Evolutionary Biology have made an incredible discovery…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of a solar flare on December 14 (as seen by the bright flash in…
A new study investigated the relationship between shift work patterns, sociodemographic factors, and sleep disorders. They found that shift work, especially night shifts, significantly disrupted sleep,…
NASA’s Starling mission will test new technologies for autonomous swarm navigation on four CubeSats in low Earth orbit.Credit: NASA Ames Research Center NASAThe four Starling spacecraft,…
The Coronavirus Moonshot Consortium report focuses on the discovery of a new class of inhibitors against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. This global collaboration has generated…
The first-ever camera footage inside a centrifuge reveals new mysteries in fluid physics. A centrifuge is a standard laboratory device that spins a liquid sample at…
Probably the smallest star ever discovered NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luman (PSU), Catalina Alves de Oliveira (ESA) The boundaries between stars and planets are fuzzy,…
Mayan ships in Guatemala (c. 700-800 AD). It depicts a king wearing a water lily headdress sitting on a throne. Water lilies (Nymphaea ampla) on the…
In the hills south of Rome is Italy’s premier nuclear physics laboratory, the Frascati National Laboratory. It has all the equipment you’d expect from a state-of-the-art…
Space News Highlights of 2023 Spiral galaxy M51 seen with the James Webb Space Telescope ESA/Webb, NASA, and CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University)/FEAST JWST Team From…
This carbon nitride is almost as hard as diamond.Dominic Ranier and others An elusive material that scientists have wanted to create for decades has finally been…
BEIJING — China has successfully launched a reusable robotic spacecraft on Thursday for the third time since 2020 in a series of secret orbital test flights…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery, as it found the record-breaking tiny brown dwarf star, which only has three to four times…
Looking for ghosts requires special patience. The chances of finding it are low, but doubting means giving up, so keep looking. This is a technique for…
A household robot can learn how to do almost any household chore in about 20 minutes if a human teaches it using an iPhone’s camera and…
An HTML tag can be used to define the structure, design, and functions of a webpage. The atmosphere is the envelope of gas that surrounds the…
A new study concludes that a combination of saline injection and ultrasound-guided irrigation in the treatment of shoulder calcific tendinopathy is no more effective than a…
Research by the University of South Australia and its partners shows that increasing student engagement with complex learning tasks significantly improves critical thinking and problem-solving skills.…
SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship is approaching the International Space Station with over 6,200 pounds of scientific experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo. The spacecraft and the…
A new study reveals the quantum switching mechanism of light-harvesting complex II (LHCII), which is critical for efficient photosynthesis. This discovery, achieved through advanced cryo-EM and…
NINDS Research on High Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline NINDS Research on High Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke…
Scientists from multiple universities are collaborating on a project to experiment if gravity has quantum properties. The experiment, MAST-QG, involves suspending microdiamonds in quantum superposition and…
Understanding Digital Capitalism New research analyzes Silicon Valley texts to understand the impact of today’s digital capitalism. The survey found that solutionism, the belief that technological…
Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? If so, that dream may have to wait until 2024. Above-average temperatures are expected across much of the United…
Shaman, a hairy armadillo cub, cries after being fed custom baby milkRoshan Patel/Smithsonian National Zoo/Conservation Biology Institute Killer whale milk has a blindingly fishy smell. Seal…
Young people from the Fridays for Future group protest calling for a ceasefire and the end of fossil fuels. Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto/Getty I will remember 2023 not…
Beatriz Nascimento National Archives of Brazil/Courtesy of Beatriz Nascimento Foundation This year, I may have been wrong, but I agreed to write two books. And, having…
This has been a year in which Silicon Valley’s two biggest hype blimps, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence, have been deflated by drama. First came the downfall…
Bearded seals have complex nasal bones that help retain internal heat. Ole Jorgen Rioden/naturepl.com Arctic seals have evolved clever adaptations to help them stay warm in…
Illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology The plumes of water vapor spewing from Enceladus’ surface appear…
DeepMind’s FunSearch AI can tackle mathematical problemsArengo/Getty Images Google DeepMind claims to have made the first ever scientific discovery in an AI chatbot by building a…
by US Department of Energy December 14, 2023 Scientists used supercomputer simulations to study gravitational waves produced by neutron star mergers and found a correlation between…
