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Chinese scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in producing large amounts of water using lunar soil collected from the 2020 mission, as reported by state-run CCTV…
Baby orangutan Emmen will need several years of protection from his mother to surviveNetflix The Secret Life of OrangutansSilverback FilmNetflix Orangutans, mankind's closest relatives, have provided…
Chemicals: A substance formed by the combination of two or more atoms in a certain ratio and structure. For example, water is a chemical formed by…
Ray Kurzweil is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence, with over 60 years of experience. He has achieved many milestones in AI development,…
Reports suggest that Americans are set to witness a peculiar and somewhat alarming occurrence as swarms of tarantulas are poised to invade certain regions of the…
Life on Earth has faced various threats over millions of years, from asteroids to pandemics to climate change. According to the IPCC, nearly one in five…
Physicists from the STAR Collaboration have observed an antimatter hypernucleus, antihyperhydrogen-4, consisting of an antihypernucleus, an antiproton, and two antineutrons, in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic…
New genus and species of large theropod dinosaur named Alpkaraqsh Kyrgyzics. It was discovered in the Middle Jurassic Barabansai Formation in the northern Fergana Basin of…
In Botswana, a mine has recently discovered the largest diamond in over a century. The country’s president showcased the fist-sized diamond to the public in a…
Fragments of mitochondrial DNA can be added to the cell's main genomewir0man/Getty Images Mutations in which DNA from energy-producing mitochondria is mistakenly added to a cell's…
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.…
