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2019 Excavations at Raili Cave, Timor-Leste Copyright:mike morley A cave on the island of Timor has given archaeologists important clues about the route ancient humans took…
battery: A device that can convert chemical energy into electrical energy.chemicals: A substance formed when two or more atoms combine (bond) together in a certain ratio…
Lightning is one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena. Watching it can be exciting, but being shocked by it is something you definitely want to avoid. In…
Egyptian archaeologists have identified part of a 40-mile-long extinct tributary of the Nile that they have named the Aphraamat tributary. The tributary flows beneath the Western…
Although the evolution of feathers is associated with new skin ultrastructures, the fossil record of these changes is poor, and thus the critical transition from scaly…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Lunar and Planetary Institute have utilized mathematical models and high-resolution images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to…
Over the course of three summers, wildlife managers conducted a project in Washington’s Olympic National Park to relocate mountain goats to the state’s Cascade Mountains in…
There has been a longstanding debate among scientists about the role of body lice in the spread of the bacteria that caused the deadly plague known…
The cause of the turbulence is currently under investigation by Singapore Airlines. The airline reported that its flight from London to Singapore experienced severe turbulence approximately…
“I’m not saying everything is true.” Christophe Simon”All I’m saying is, it’s not a crazy thing to look for,” said , a physicist at the University…
Jurgita Vaikevicien/Alamy As a child, I was frequently scolded for sitting out in class, interrupting conversations, and losing nearly all of my possessions. These “bad habits”…
If you have any interest in artificial intelligence, you will inevitably come across the concept of artificial general intelligence. As is well known, AGI has grown…
Fractal geometry is common in natureShutterstock/Sabine Holtebusch You've almost certainly seen computer-generated fractals. Fractals are beautiful, whimsical images with colorful, intricate structures that repeat endlessly as…
Neurological status is currently Leading causes of disease and disability around the world, outperformed disease categories such as cancer and heart disease. According to the World…
Paleontologists from the University of Liege and elsewhere investigated the evolutionary patterns behind the development of saber teeth in two groups of carnivores. feline (family members…
A startup is testing a new system to capture carbon dioxide from ship exhaust and release it into the ocean. calcareous Ships can capture their own…
Endangered howler monkeys have been plummeting to their deaths from trees in the tropical forests of southeastern Mexico as a nationwide drought and heatwave lead to…
Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast and the University of South Australia have discovered in a recent study that following a Mediterranean diet is…
Hummingbird wings are truly incredible. They have the ability to flap their wings numerous times per second and maneuver in ways that seem impossible, such as…
algae: A single-celled organism that was once thought to be a plant (though it is not actually a plant). As aquatic organisms, they grow in water.…
The forests of the Late Carboniferous Period (about 300-320 million years ago) were home to a wide variety of arachnids. In addition to the familiar spiders,…
Cutibacterium acnes is often associated with acne, but it also appears to be involved in dandruff.Science Photo Library/Alamy The same bacteria that commonly cause acne may…
WASP-107b, a super-Neptunian exoplanet about 212 light-years away in the constellation Virgo, harbors surprisingly low amounts of methane and a super-large core, according to two new…
The skeletal remains of a 4,000-year-old Scandinavian man were discovered in 1916. Hitla island, Norway. The male Hitra was approximately 169 cm tall, had blond hair…
In the town of Rio Julio de Juarez in the State of Mexico, Leonidas Otrica Reyes is concerned about the drought that has turned streams into…
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We’re always working on it. But thinking, or how we should think about thinking, is surprisingly difficult to pin down. For example, when I did VoxPop,…
Most rogue planets are likely frozen worldsShutterstock/Artsiom P Imagine a world where it's always night all day, all year round. In fact, because there is no…
A device that provides electrical stimulation to the spinal cord via pads on the skinOnward Medical NV Treatment for spinal cord injuries improved hand and arm…
Borneo flat-headed frogs have lungsChen Li/naturepl.com The tiny frog from Borneo was thought to be the only known species of frog without lungs, but it turns…
If you drop the cup, it will break – or will it? Sunny/Getty Images If you drop the cup, it will break. When you press the…
The heart produces magnetic signals that can be used to diagnose disease, but are difficult to measure Wakupan / Alamy A diamond-based quantum sensor has been…
Biodiversity includes several aspects Hans-Joachim Schneider/Alamy At first glance, the idea of biodiversity seems very simple. It is essentially the diversity of all life on Earth.…
Significant transformations are underway in the food industry. Farms are gradually transitioning to lab-grown produce, vertical farming, and cultured cell meat. Now, a new contender is…
In the labyrinthine basement of the Physics Department at the University of Bristol, nuclear physicists Dr. Dave Megson-Smith discuss their dislike for wearing hazmat suits when…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured sharp images of NGC 4689, a jewel-bright spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma. This Hubble image shows…
With persistent stories of isolation, inaccessibility, and unattractiveness, one of the eastern Mediterranean islands was first populated by an influx of agricultural populations from the mainland…
The survival of certain species during mass extinction events has puzzled scientists for centuries. Approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period,…
Compound Eyes (noun, “calm pound ahee”) Compound eyes consist of many small visual units known as ommatidia, with each unit functioning like a human eye to…
