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Most political efforts to tackle climate change have had little effect Shutterstock Most climate policies fail to significantly reduce emissions and have little effect on halting…
Chandra X-ray ObservatoryNASA/CXC & J. Vaughan On July 23, 1999, just a few months before I enrolled in college, NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia launched with a…
Pathological dating People with a craving for pathological romance could, if they so wished, write algorithms to select attractive, pathological prospective spouses or recreational dating partners.…
Pong is a simple video gameInterphoto/Alamy Inanimate blobs of ion-laden jelly can play computer games Pong And it will continue to improve over time: The researchers…
COVID-19 is a year-round riskRosem Morton for The Washington Post via Getty Images Traditionally, summer is the season for sunburn and allergies, and winter is the…
In 1968, biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, a married couple, Population explosion frightening prospects of ecological disaster to come. Population growth must be slowed or reversed,…
Seoul’s ginkgo trees help absorb carbon dioxide emitted by traffic Khanh Nha Trang/Alamy Becoming Earth Felice Jabr (Picador (UK)) Penguin Random House (USA) The first ginkgo…
Supernova remnants in the Milky Way GalaxyChandra X-ray Observatory After a star explodes in a supernova, its remains can be reborn multiple times as new stars.…
A groundbreaking space mission known as Polaris Dawn is set to take off next week with four private citizens on board. The mission is expected to…
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaegangliae) Whales build so-called “bubble nets” as tools to hunt, but researchers from the University of Hawaii and the Alaska Whale Foundation have…
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius that hosts seven planets. The period ratios of the neighboring planets are…
Historical and ethnographic sources document that portable pole-hafted weapons, or spears, were used for hunting and defense against large game in North and South America, Africa,…
Set against the backdrop of Jupiter’s dramatic, swirling atmosphere, Europa may look a bit drab at first glance — its gray-white surface might even resemble well-worn…
Composite image of the New York Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the tracks of particles it has detected. Joe Rubino and Jen Abramowitz/Brookhaven National Laboratory Our…
AP Photo/François Mori, File/Alamy As a COP26 During climate change negotiations in Glasgow, UK, in November 2021, a new slogan entered the vocabulary: “Stay at 1.5°C.”…
Duodenal hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale) cause one of the most common intestinal parasitic infections worldwide.Katerina Conn/Shutterstock People with intestinal parasitic infections, quarter This has been suggested by…
AI programs quickly lose the ability to learn new thingsJiefeng Jiang/iStockphoto/Getty Images The algorithms that underpin artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are unable to learn as…
The impact of the long corona pandemic appears to vary by ageDamir Cudic/Getty Images Symptoms of long COVID appear to be very different in young children…
13,000 years ago, humans had to come up with creative ways to survive in icy environments. Recent studies suggest that their solutions were more inventive and…
Hubble astronomers have released a stunning new image of the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble Space Telescope…
Scientists are puzzled by mysterious object speeding through galaxy at over a million miles per hour
An object moving through space at close to 1 million miles per hour has been detected, moving so fast that it is leaving the Milky Way…
The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico detected a radio signal similar to the Wow! signal. NAIC/Arecibo Observatory/NSF An unexplained radio signal detected in 1977 and known…
The oldest known fragment on Earth? A 4.4 billion year old zircon John Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Until recently, many people discounted the idea of life…
During the Cretaceous period on Earth, both large dinosaurs and smaller creatures coexisted, shaping the landscape. The battles between these creatures can still be seen in…
Red meat is best enjoyed in moderationAnton Vielitin/Getty Images In the ever-evolving and confusing world of nutrition science, new research has linked eating meat to an…
Using the large number of human fossils found in Ice Age Europe, paleoanthropologists have identified a population turnover in Western Europe 28,000 years ago, isolation between…
Researchers from James Madison University conducted a comprehensive study of thunderstorm environments in two distinct geographic regions: Washington, DC, and the Kansas City metropolitan area. Air…
Astronomers Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array observed Polaris, the nearest and brightest classical Cepheid star, which is part of a triple star system.…
Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas caused the extinction of most mitochondrial lineages of North American dogs between 1492 and present, and…
Quantum effects cause particles to behave like waves that interfere with each other.Shutterstock/sakkmesterk The quantum world’s ambiguities have been demonstrated on the largest scale yet, exploring…
A new species of three-bearded rockfish has been described from a specimen taken from a depth of 595 metres in the Tanoudre Valley, off the coast…
There's a saying: “I only drink coffee on days that end in Y.” If this mantra applies to you, welcome to the club. Caffeine, coffee's best-known…
When cancer goes into remission, it means there are no longer any signs of the disease in the body, typically after undergoing some form of treatment.…
Computer programs from the 1960s are still used by many organizations to process large amounts of data. H. Armstrong Roberts/Classic Stock/Getty Images Mainframe computers that run…
Coca leaves have psychoactive and therapeutic propertiesFabiano Sodi/Alamy Mummified brain tissue from two individuals found in body of 17-year-old girlNumberTraces of cocaine found in a 19th-century…
Rising temperatures lead to increased use of air conditionersMegapress Images/Alamy When temperatures get too extreme, we rush to adjust our heating and cooling systems to stay…
Chemical found in Amazon air that permanently destroys hormones Sebastian Brill/MPI-C Some of the cleanest places on Earth have been contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances…
Holly Spanner Staff writer, BBC Science Focus Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, responsible for the popular Q&A section. She has an MSc…
