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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…
Nodules taken from the ocean floor being examined in a laboratoryCamille Bridgewater (2024) Metallic nodules scattered across the floor of the Indian and Pacific Oceans provide…
Floating iceberg in Noop Kangerua fjord, Greenland Shutterstock/Keith Levitt Greenland’s coast is dotted with thousands of lakes, each held back by a wall of ice, but…
Watching athletes at their peak is thrilling, but maximizing your own athletic potential is not. Getting healthy is hard and painful – or at least, that's…
AI could help us predict the weather more accuratelyLaniMiro Lotufo Neto/Alamy Google researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that they say can predict weather and climate…
Muscle, fat and other cells respond differently to exercise at different times of the day.Panorama image/Alamy Usain Bolt broke the 100-meter record at the 2009 World…
Pearl Jam, the band that played in Barcelona earlier this month Kike Rincon/Europa Press via Getty Images The tempos of songs released by many popular musicians…
According to a team of astronomers from the University of Hull, spotting a deepfake is as simple as looking for stars in the eyes. They propose…
In this new image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope focuses its lens on the center of spiral galaxy NGC 3430. This Hubble image shows NGC 3430,…
Yellow crystals Elemental Sulfur According to the Curiosity team, the discoveries were made when NASA's Curiosity rover accidentally drove over a rock on May 30, 2024,…
Ashwagandha is a herb (Withania somnifera) from the nightshade family, which includes tomatoes and chili peppers. Traditional Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has used Ashwagandha for thousands of…
Ashwagandha is a herb (Withania somnifera) from the nightshade family, which includes tomatoes and chili peppers. Traditional Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has used Ashwagandha for thousands of…
The recent focus in news has been on the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) in the past couple of years. ChatGPT and DALL·E are examples of…
Bekiss (noun, “Bikuieaishun”) Beaking is a technique that parrots use to navigate along thin branches. Scientists Recently discovered In an experiment with a parrot called a…
Aerospace: A field of research aimed at studying the Earth’s atmosphere and the outer space beyond, or aircraft flying in the atmosphere or space. Astronaut: A…
Receptors in the cells of the tongue detect the five basic tastes: sweet, bitter, umami, sour, and salty. Taste is typically released through chewing, so animals…
Individual exercise needs can vary based on a variety of factors, including: Genetic mutations Our genes play a significant role in how we respond to exercise.…
Two days after Hurricane Beryl struck Texas, Janet and Pamela Jarrett’s Houston home was still without power and a heat watch was in effect. They spent…
Uncovering the unconventional method by which a lugworm determines the outcome of the Tour de France
In 2007, a scientist Dr. Frank Zall discovered hemoglobin in lugworms. This discovery is often utilized in fishing bait. Surprisingly, this hemoglobin has the capacity to…
The Tanimbar Islands are one of the main island groups of Wallacea (a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated from the Asian and Australian continental shelves…
Snake bites affect approximately 1.8 million people annually. The current standard of care is antibody-based antivenom, but it can be difficult to obtain and is generally…
In March 2020, a night-time curfew was imposed in New Delhi, India, as a preventive measure against COVID-19.Yawar Nazir/Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic may have affected…
Though there are still weeks until the height of fire season, more than 242,000 acres have already burned in California, nearly double the normal amount for…
Artist's impression of a very distant undead galaxyESO/M. Kornmesser A strange zombie-like galaxy has been discovered in the distant universe: the immortal galaxy stopped forming stars…
Being a neuroscientist comes with a unique occupational hazard of existential anxiety. The more we uncover about perception, cognition, decision-making, and behavioral selection, the more we…
London is surrounded by green spaces Jonathan Wilson/Alamy Stock Photo Preserving rural ‘green belts’ around urban areas helps keep cities cooler during the hottest months of…
Tokamak’s 30-metre deep assembly pit ©Enrico Sacchetti Huge in scale and ambition, ITER is a €20 billion energy project being built in the south of France…
Compressed air now keeps your beer fresh by pushing the caps tightly onto the bottles.Shutterstock/Parilov That’s gas.Mark Miodnik (Vikings (UK, now showing); The Mariner (US, September…
If you see a blue screen, it’s bad news Alex Photostock/Alamy A large number of Microsoft Windows computers around the world today were found to be…
It is widely known that excessive alcohol consumption is detrimental to health, a fact that has been established by scientific research over many years. Despite this,…
Have you heard of the carnivore diet? It’s a new trend that takes low-carb dieting to the extreme by eliminating all plant foods and only consuming…
Using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other telescopes, astronomers have found evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole. IRS 13a dusty…
Europa and Enceladus are important targets for the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in the solar system. However, the surfaces and shallow subsurfaces of these…
