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When thinking of the menstrual cycle, most people consider only ovulation and menstruation. However, it is a much more complex process involving a network of hormones.…
Feeling uncomfortably hot due to the soaring temperatures in the UK and the US heatwave is totally understandable. As humans evolved for tropical climates, working in…
A team of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley has developed the most sophisticated instrument ever designed to search for dark energy, the mysterious force…
Ultrasound systems are used in conjunction with MRI scanners Eleanor Martin et al. Low-power ultrasound systems can alter activity deep inside the brain with much greater…
The Earth is home to many extreme temperatures, from the frigid Arctic to the scorching Sahara Desert. But where is the hottest place on Earth? Below…
Hector Vivas/Getty Images This story is part of our “Cosmic Perspective” special, which confronts the incredible vastness of the universe and our place in it. Read…
ESO/VVV Research/D. Minniti. Approved. Since the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, a variety of characters have appeared on the stage: stars, planets, moons, quasars, and…
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria Neanderthal/Alamy Stock Photo If the interpretation of the fossilized ear bones is correct,…
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory’s Gemini North Telescope have imaged NGC 4449, a prime example of starburst activity caused by an ongoing merger with a…
Splitting the qubits in a quantum computer into high-energy and low-energy groups could recharge a battery Shutterstock / Pavel Chukhov A 19th century thought experiment that…
Green and gold bell frogs in an artificial hotspot shelter Anthony Waddle One of Australia’s most endangered amphibians can fight off a deadly fungal infection with…
Bridge editing physically links two DNA strands Visual Science A powerful DNA-editing mechanism discovered in bacteria has the potential to enable much larger genome modifications than…
Denmark is taking action to address methane emissions, a significant contributor to global warming. Starting in 2030, Denmark will be the first country to implement a…
This story is part of our “Cosmic Perspective” series, which confronts the incredible vastness of the universe and our place in it. Read the rest of…
Nutritious produce can be expensiveGary John Norman/Getty Images A growing body of evidence suggests that paying people to lose weight could be an effective treatment for…
Scientists can tell when characters from the movie “500 Days of Summer” appeared on screen by watching viewers’ brain activity Collection Christoffel / Alamy By observing…
Have you ever experienced this feeling before? On a blazing hot day, the desire to plunge into a cool stream of water intensifies by the minute.…
Algae: Single-celled organisms that were once thought to be plants, but aren’t actually plants. They are aquatic, meaning they grow in water. Like green plants, they…
The winning work is Royal Entomological Society Photography Competition An exhibition has been announced showcasing amazing images of insects from around the world. This tournament Insect…
Jupiter’s upper atmosphere consists of a neutral thermosphere and an electrically charged ionosphere. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered unexpected small-scale intensity…
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have announced the results of the most sensitive search to date for double…
Cygnus X-3It is an X-ray binary system located about 7,400 parsecs (24,136 light years) away in the constellation Cygnus, and analysis of the data indicates that…
The five man-made greenhouse gases identified by astrobiologist Edward Schwieterman of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues could be detected in relatively low concentrations…
Research shows active hydrothermal systems on small ocean planets have the potential to sustain life
Ocean worlds are planetary bodies with liquid oceans, often beneath an icy shell or within rocky interiors. In our solar system, several moons of Jupiter and…
summaryIn the last week alone, extreme weather has wreaked havoc in many parts of the United States and around the world.Climate change is increasing the likelihood…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Tuesday warning officials, health care providers and the public about the heightened risk of dengue…
Pete Burford photographed a damselfly that appears to be peering into a camera lens with … tens of individual light-receiving units, called ommatidia, each with a…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws of…
We tend to think of space-time as the underlying structure of the universe, but whether it’s truly fundamental, or whether it arises from something much deeper,…
CrackerClips Stock Media/Alamy All life as we know it in the entire universe is tucked away on a tiny rock floating in a tiny branch of…
Can you solve this puzzle? Mike Knoop The series of puzzles, which are relatively easy for humans but will challenge today’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence models,…
This robot's face can laughTakeuchi et al. (CC-BY-ND) Researchers say smiles made from living human skin could one day be attached to humanoid robots, allowing the…
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI In a sense, we are at the center of the universe. But that’s because we see the same distance in every direction,…
Transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (cyan) within an infected cell. NIAID Urgent action is needed to stop the spread of a new, primarily heterosexually transmitted, strain of MPOX that has caused more than 1,000 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, say medical experts responding to the outbreak, who fear the disease could
Discovering extraterrestrial life may now become more achievable as scientists explore the possibility of aliens modifying the planets in our solar system to create a warmer…
The Chang’e-6 probe is recovered in Xiziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, China.Xinhua/Shutterstock China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has returned to Earth, bringing back the first chunk of space rock…
Shutterstock/Dr. Norbert Lange We think of this universe as containing everything that exists, has existed in the past, and will exist in the future, but that…
An astrophysicist and a surgeon walk into a bar. No, this is not the start of a bad joke. A few years ago, an astrophysicist Franco…
Los Angeles, California — More than two years ago, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Volodymyr Borisenko, a 12th-grader at School No. 28 in Cherkasy,…
