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As you prepare to settle in to watch the latest generation of Olympians and Paralympians display their incredible athletic abilities, the irony is unlikely to escape…
Lunar samples collected by NASA's Apollo missions continue to enable new discoveries.NASA/ESA The Moon's largest crater is thought to have formed 4.338 billion years ago when…
Illustration of the Deinotherium genus, an animal that became extinct after the evolution of humans Heinrich Harder/Florilegius/Alamy An AI-powered analysis of thousands of fossils suggests that…
A slide showing part of a mouse brainStu Gray / Alamy A newly identified brain pathway in mice may explain why placebos, or interventions that should…
24K Productions/Getty Images It's inevitable that you'll get sidetracked from your training routine. Life happens. You go on a trip, sprain your ankle, start a new…
Manu National Park in Peru, where some measurements were taken for the studyVincent Ghossi Microorganisms living in their bark absorb methane from the air, giving trees…
Cruxatodon kiltlingtonensisA small mammal from the Jurassic periodMaiya Carrara During the Middle Jurassic, small mammals lived much longer than modern ones and received parental care for…
Occasionally, you may have the opportunity to witness the Northern Lights from your home in the UK or US. Tonight (Wednesday, July 24) presents a moderate…
A spot robot equipped with a burner for weed removalSong, Deok-jin et al. (2024) Robot dogs equipped with burners could be used to prevent weeds from…
The Komodo dragon is a ferocious predator. Charlotte Ellis/Zoological Society of London Komodo dragons, some of the most ferocious reptiles on Earth, strengthen their teeth with…
The tipping point could be over as rich forests dry upPiotr Poznan/Shutterstock AI can predict when complex systems like forests, animal populations, and power grids will…
air pressure: The force exerted by the weight of air molecules. Ash: (geology) Small, light pieces of rock or glass ejected by a volcanic eruption. (biology)…
A researcher plucks the feathers of a bird as part of an experiment to investigate Neanderthal cooking techniques. Mariana Navaiz To learn more about Neanderthal culinary…
This is the first documented collision between a boat and a basking shark, indicating that such incidents may be more common than previously thought. Further monitoring…
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean that challenges our understanding of Earth’s history and the origin of life. They have found evidence…
According to a recent study conducted by researchers from Bond University, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, increasing fluid intake can help reduce the occurrence…
New calculations reveal that the previously overlooked behavior of dark matter particles could cause a pair of supermassive black holes to merge into a larger one,…
In celebration of our 25th anniversary NASA’s Chandra X-ray ObservatoryThe Chandra team has released 25 new images of cosmic objects and phenomena. This collection of images…
East Africa contains the world’s most complete record of human evolution, yet scientists know little about how long-term biogeographic dynamics in the region have influenced human…
NOAA Aurora Dashboard provides short-term forecasts of the aurora, including maps of where you can see the aurora.Eruptions from the sun can cause geomagnetic storms that…
summaryAccording to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, Sunday was the hottest day on record. The global average temperature reached 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees…
Jacqueline Gates of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory isolating livermorium atoms.Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 Regents of the University of California The third heaviest element in the universe…
A hydrothermal explosion occurred just north of Old Faithful geyser on Tuesday, spewing rocks and steam into the air and forcing visitors to flee to safety,…
Shutterstock/Paolo Paradiso For many runners, going faster is the primary goal of donning gear, but lately the opposite approach has been gaining popularity: the slow running…
Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and silicon Oxford PV The most efficient solar cells to date can convert nearly half of the sunlight…
 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…
Paleontologists have described a new species of snake that lived during the Early Oligocene of Wyoming, based on four nearly complete, articulated specimens found curled together…
Panayiotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images The benefits of exercise are so great that if it were a drug, it would be a miracle cure. But what's…
Robot dogs equipped with flame throwers could be used to prevent weeds from growing on farms, offering a potential alternative to harmful herbicides. Even highly targeted…
Frank Fife/AFP via Getty Images I've never been to the same gym as Eric Drinkwater, a sports scientist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia — in…
Christopher Columbus' expedition to the Americas arrived with disease on boardWilliam J. Aylward/Granger Historical Photo Archive/Alamy It's well known that microbes traveled aboard long voyages like…
Arizona public health officials are cautioning about the hantavirus, a disease that spreads from rodents to humans and has led to an increase in a deadly…
Galaxies like Andromeda have supermassive black holes at their centersNASA/JPL-Caltech Supermassive black holes appear to be more powerful than theory suggests, blasting the gas surrounding galaxies…
biodiversity: (short for biological diversity) The number and variety of species found within a particular geographic area. Borneo: The largest island in Asia and the third…
The U.S. has seen a significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions due to the growth of clean energy, but it falls short of the targets set…
Researchers from the Scottish Institute for Marine Science have discovered that the deep ocean floor of the Pacific Ocean, covered with polymetallic nodules, produces so-called “dark…
Palaeontologists have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown species of lizard in mid-Cretaceous amber unearthed in northern Myanmar. Reconstructing your life Electrosincus Zeddyparts of the…
Bringing the dead back to digital “life” raises difficult ethical questionsKonrad Waldmann/Dogwoof Films Forever YouHans Block and Moritz RieswickSelected UK and Irish cinemas Want to talk…
Shutterstock/Brent Hoffacker I recently watched a romance drama. The taste of thingsSo, we're all hyped about Baked Alaska. This delicacy is a sponge cake topped with…
Chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, UgandaCatherine Hobaiter When chimpanzees socialize, they exchange gestures at a rate similar to how humans converse. The researchers surveyed five wild chimpanzees.Pan…
