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Unlike humans, dogs may know by living, not by thinking.Shutterstock/Tom Wang Dog HappinessMark Rowlands (Granta Books) Do you spend most of your day looking at your…
A new type of weather forecast could give us advance warning of whether extreme weather events like 2018’s Hurricane Florence are exacerbated by climate change. Nathan…
American Sign Language: A method of communication using hand shapes and body movements. Audiologist: A type of healthcare professional specializing in treating individuals with hearing loss,…
Martian “spiders” are small, dark, spider-shaped formations up to 1 km (0.6 miles) in diameter. The leading theory is that they form when spring sunlight hits…
Biomarkers in blood may indicate certain medical conditions Evgeny Sarov/Alamy Researchers have linked eight genetic markers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which may one day be…
Living Coelacanth Latimeria Coelacanths are iconic “living fossils,” one of the most conservative groups of vertebrates. Now, paleontologists have described a new species of primitive coelacanth…
This is an actual photo of Joe Biden giving a speech.Shawn Zau/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock People can usually tell when a video of a famous politician speaking is actually…
The 34th Ig Nobel Prize was awarded today for 10 unexpected things – all so surprising that, in keeping with the Prize's long tradition, it makes…
Based on multiple analytical techniques applied to two well-preserved soft-bodied specimens of trilobites, the Late Ordovician species Triarturus Eatonii and Middle Cambrian species Polygonum gracilis, paleontologists…
summarySeismologists detected unusual vibrations and determined that a 650-foot-high tsunami had occurred in Greenland.The tsunami was caused by melting glacial ice that triggered landslides and washed…
Part of a mountain and glacier along Greenland’s Dikson Fjord in August 2023 (left), and the same location after a landslide in September 2023Soren Lisgaard/Danish Army…
Diagram of the end-Permian extinction event, where extreme temperatures may have caused forests to die off.Richard Jones/Science Photo Library The end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago,…
summaryBoeing executives have made few public comments about the company’s Starliner spacecraft in the past six weeks.The capsule returned to Earth without any crew on Saturday,…
AST SpaceMobile satellite illustration AST Space Mobile Five more are due to join the unusually reflective prototype satellites later this week, which shine brighter than nearly…
“Microbial foods allow consumers to enjoy meat, fish, cheese, eggs and milk that taste exactly like the real thing.” Shutterstock/Gorodenkov The food revolution began in the…
Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy Antarctic sea ice has hovered near record lows for the second year in a row, strengthening concerns…
Monsters are frightening, yet they continue to fascinate us. From chimeras and hydras to bunyips and golems, creatures have emerged from our imaginations across history and…
Tel Aviv University before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's talk in June 2023REUTERS/Amir Cohen hegemonyParmy Olson (Macmillan Business (UK), St. Martin's Press (US)) To most people, ChatGPT…
The Perseverance rover is exploring MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has spotted what may be a human-visible aurora on Mars, the first time such aurora has…
Jared Isaacman looks out the hatch of the Dragon capsule.SpaceX SpaceX made history today when its private astronauts conducted the first-ever private spacewalk as part of…
New research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reveals that Atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) is three times more common in the United States…
The arrival of human flight’s future was uneventful during a time of minimal flying in June 2020 when COVID-19 was rampant all over the world. Despite…
In 2015, archaeologists discovered Neanderthal fossils. Grotte Mandolin is located on the Mediterranean coast of France, in the shadow of a rock overhanging directly into the…
Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Its archaeological record, including megalithic statues, has captured…
There are few high-quality studies on the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. Emanuele Contini/Nuru Photo via Getty Images One dose of one type of…
When my daughter was little, she would wash her hands a lot. We might have lightly teased her, saying she was a bit OCD. Then she…
The movement of bubbling gas on the surface of R DoradusALMA (ESO/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/NRAO)/W. Breming A giant bubble of hot gas more than 75…
The famous Moai statues of Easter Island Tero Hakala/Shutterstock DNA analysis of ancient ruins on Easter Island has revealed that the population was actually growing when…
The jawbone of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, thought to have belonged to an isolated groupXavier Mus Genetic analysis of Neanderthal fossils found in France has…
We’ve probably all heard people jokingly or proudly describe their habit of meticulously rearranging their bookshelves or taking an incredibly long time to clean their bathroom…
New research has identified four genes that, if altered, could impact the age at which menopause occurs. These genes (ETAA1, ZNF518A, PNPLA8, and PALB2) were found…
This groundbreaking achievement will improve our understanding of the Sun’s atmosphere and shed light on how its changing conditions affect our technology-dependent society. The Inouye Solar…
Chemists at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research have discovered that sulfurous acid (H2So3), once formed in the gas phase, is kinetically stable enough to allow…
The image is Mars Cloud Map Captured High resolution stereo camera (HRSC) Equipment On ESA's Mars probe “Mars Express”. Leech waves on Mars are created when…
Weight-loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy have been under discussion for some time, but new research suggests there may be better alternatives. Enter Amicretin, a novel…
Bluestreak Cleaner checking himself out in the mirrorOsaka Metropolitan University Before deciding whether to fight another fish, wrasse look at their own reflection in the mirror…
The February Juno image (right) shows a new volcano that wasn’t present in the 1997 Galileo image (left).Galileo/JunoCam/NASA A new volcano has appeared on Jupiter’s moon…
Chemicals: A substance formed by combining two or more atoms in a specific ratio and structure. For instance, water is a chemical composed of two hydrogen…
The newly discovered theropod and ornithopod dinosaur footprints date back to the Early Cretaceous period, more than 120 million years ago, when Australia was still connected…
Paleontologists found fossilized seeds of gymnosperms, relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgo trees, in the stomachs of two of the specimens. Longipteryx caoyangensis One of the…
