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Plaster statues of those who died at Pompeii. DNA testing revealed that the adult on the right was a man unrelated to the young child in…
Topographic map of Mars showing Utopian plains that may have once been an oceanUnited States Geological Survey Possible ancient coastlines have been discovered in a region…
Elon Musk will board a private jet in Beijing in 2023Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images Researchers say private jet flights should be subject to a carbon…
Liverpool fans crowd to watch the on-field VAR screen at Anfield Stadium Alex Dodd – CameraSport via Getty Images If you’ve watched any football, or even…
Yellowfin marmots live in colonies with a single dominant maleMaria Janicki/Alamy Friendly groups of marmots could help settle an enduring debate in evolutionary theory about whether…
Difficult to separate oil and water without leaving behind impuritiesAbaka Press/Alamy A mixture of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping it through narrow…
Hairy animals such as rats and dogs shiver to dry. Atikinka 2/Getty Images If you’ve ever been close to a dog that went swimming, you’ve probably…
Farm workers exposed to infected dairy cows found to have avian influenza antibodiesHelen King/Getty Images There may be more human cases of avian influenza in the…
New DNA analysis has shed light on the victims of the Pompeii disaster, challenging previous assumptions. Researchers from the United States and Italy conducted a recent…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long events detected from beyond the Milky Way. The radiative properties of FRBs favor magnetars as their source, as evidenced by…
Archaeologists used a laser-based detection system to discover more than 6,500 Pre-Hispanic structures in Campeche, Mexico, including a previously unknown Mayan city named Valeriana. Details of…
Certain knots, like this trefoil, can form from vortices within the quantum fluid Login/Shutterstock By manipulating quantum fluids, researchers were able to form liquid knots that…
A sheep skull modified by the ancient Egyptians so that the horns extend upward instead of outward. B. de Cupert A sheep with deformed horns is…
Archaeologists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known evidence of intensive loess mining at least 48,000 years ago at Lion Cave in Ngwenya, in the…
DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms important for controlling gene expression in eukaryotes. Arabidopsis. Image credit: Carl Davies, CSIRO/CC BY 3.0. DNA methylation is…
Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t spot it and somehow stop…
When it comes to natural disasters, it is often impossible to predict them more than a few months or even days in advance. We cannot say,…
A new study led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institutet, and Linköping University has revealed a landscape view of the human sense of…
Firefighters working to extinguish California fires in July Abaca/Shutterstock 2024 is almost certain to be the first year on record where average temperatures exceed pre-industrial levels…
In 2013, Ning Zeng discovered a very old and very important log. At the time, he and a colleague were digging ditches in Quebec, Canada. They…
Astronomers using the VLT survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile 283 million pixel image of the Dark Wolf Nebula. This image was taken by…
Newly discovered tardigrade species using genome, transcriptome and proteome analysis Hypsibius henanensis scientists investigated the molecular basis that contributes to radioresistance in these small invertebrates. Schematic…
A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurs have been identified from two specimens discovered in Inner Mongolia, China. rebuilding the life of Yuanyang Long Bai…
New supercapacitors could be assembled from Martian materialsNASA When forced into small cracks, water can be used in unexpected ways. New battery-like devices that rely on…
In everyday life, there is nothing more frustrating than having something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we can reach for the toothpicks. And it appears our…
Breast cancer cells metastasized to the liver Connect images / Alamy Global cancer deaths are expected to nearly double by 2050, primarily in low- and middle-income…
Administrative innovations in Southwest Asia in the fourth millennium BC, such as cylindrical seals wrapped around the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundation for one of…
Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common…
Rapid 3D printing using sound and light could one day create copies of human organs made from one’s own cells, enabling a variety of drug tests.…
Award-winning work “Calcium Rainbow”Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde, British Heart Foundation – Research review In this image, the muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained…
The Soy Habzak trenches in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley are the remains of several Paleolithic occupation phases rich in stone tools, fauna, and charcoal remains. The Soi…
Fibers from wet wipes can get mixed into fertilizer if flushed down the toilet.Linda Kennedy/Alamy The natural fibers increasingly used in wet wipes can actually have…
The first cosmonaut to cast a vote from space was actually a cosmonaut (individuals trained by the Russian Space Agency for space travel) who flew from…
atom: The basic unit of chemical elements. Atoms are composed of a dense nucleus containing positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons, orbited by a cloud of…
Yash Mehta, 14, was inspired for his first science fair project during a visit to a school for the blind in Old Delhi, India. He observed…
Cylinder seal and its design engraved in clay Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum) The origins of the world’s oldest known writing system may be…
Looking for information on the most dangerous cities in America? With thousands of cities and millions of people living in close quarters, there are bound to…
Police stand guard in front of a hotel ahead of the United Nations biodiversity conference COP16 to be held in Cali, Colombia on October 19th.Fernando Vergara/AP/Alamy…
Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, Indonesia Aliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly…
