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Military pilots must remain vigilant when flying fighter jets such as the F-15E Strike Eagle. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hiram Martinez The US…
Voyager 1 Due to technical issues, scientific observations are being carried out for the first time. Happened November 2023. Voyager 1 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space…
Physicists at the University of Vienna have used a maximally entangled quantum state of light paths in a large interferometer to experimentally measure the speed of…
Climate activists protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London in March.Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy This week, more than 400 climate scientists from UK research institutes published an…
Ancient humans lived in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava cavesGreen Arabia Project This is an excerpt from Our Human Story, our newsletter on Revolution in Archaeology.…
Eske Willerslev during fieldwork in the Ilulissat glacial fjord in Greenland. Hanful of Films Searching for the oldest DNANiobe ThompsonPBS Embracing failure leads to experience and…
Many of the circled objects represent previously unknown supernovae.Collaboration between NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI and JADES Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered…
Climate activists protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London in March. Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy This week, more than 400 climate scientists from UK research institutes published…
You’ve probably experienced this scenario before: after a long day, feeling mentally and physically drained, all you want to do is crawl into bed and sleep.…
Astronomers Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Mid-infrared measuring instrument (mm) NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope A twin disk and parallel jets were discovered in the young…
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended that pharmaceutical companies develop coronavirus vaccines targeting the KP.2 strain, a descendant of the highly contagious JN.1 variant…
As summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, Florida is already facing extreme weather conditions. Storms have hit South Florida, bringing heavy rain and causing severe flooding…
Varying your stride length may have positive health effectsAddictive Stock Creatives/Alamy Varying your stride length uses more energy than walking at a steady pace, which may…
Coloured black holes may have formed in the early universe betibup33/Shutterstock The universe may have once been dotted with tiny black holes that possessed strange properties…
Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs, but delivering gene therapy to the defective cells is difficult. Science Photo Library/Getty Images CRISPR gene editing therapy has the potential…
A scorching hot day in Bucharest, Romania, June 2019 lcv / Alamy In the future, city dwellers could beat the heat with clothes made from new…
The malaria drug artemisinin is extracted from the plant wormwood.Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images A drug already used to treat malaria may also be effective…
Australian paleontologists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown Anhangeria pterosaur, dating back 100 million years. Reconstructing your life Haliskia petersenii Image courtesy of…
Favoritism is a result of our individual preferences for certain colors, tastes, faces, and places, which are influenced by our evolutionary past. Studies show that we…
Nearly a decade has passed since hackers leaked a ton of personal information from Ashley Madison, the notorious dating site that primarily targeted men looking to…
Mid-air collision To find out whether air taxi passengers need to worry about collisions with birds, a number of tests were carried out by a German…
Do newborns hear sounds and are aware of pain? In the past, boys undergoing circumcision were often not given anesthesia, in part because it was thought…
Part of an installation by filmmaker Michael Shindhelm, lamenting the artificial prolongation of women’s lives (below). Basel Cultural Foundation H. Geiger/KBH.G The end of agingMichael ShindhelmH.…
Some problems are harder than others IGDB/Nintendo Researchers have discovered that it is mathematically impossible to determine whether someone can complete a particular level of the…
Since the 1920s, Edwin Hubble Ever since it was discovered that the universe is expanding, astrophysicists have been asking themselves the question, “Where does matter come…
asteroid: Rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Most asteroids orbit the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, an area astronomers call the asteroid belt.astronomyThe…
NASA had to reassure the public that there was no emergency on the International Space Station after audio from a medical training drill was mistakenly played…
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America has fascinated scholars for centuries with its incredible astronomical calendar and magnificent step pyramids. But alongside their glorious culture,…
A beam refers to a stream of particles or photons moving from a source to a target, exerting pushing force rather than pulling force on the…
At an estimated distance of 140 parsecs (457 light years), the L-type subdwarf star CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) has a total velocity of at least…
Coloured dyes were essential commodities in the Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Berger and his colleagues unearthed a purple dye factory at site K10…
Residents are expressing concerns about the facility itself and the potential for monkeys to escape, which has occurred in the past. Similar incidents have been reported…
A building damaged by a drone strike in Kiev in October 2022Roman Fritzina/Associated Press/Alamy A group of climate experts estimates that the first two years of…
ADDICTIVE STOCK CREATIVES/Alamy; AdoBe Stock Kathy Schwartz had been sober for 10 years, but battling cravings was a daily struggle. “They were always in my head,”…
Quantum light is generated when a laser is shone on certain crystals Jaka Waxwing The liquid crystals found in television screens have made it easy to…
Martin Rees at the 2017 Hay Literary Festival (Hay-on-Wye, UK) Alamy Stock Photo The Oscars. The Booker Prize. The Nobel Prize. All of the year’s landmark…
Kamran Dibba, an anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan, and his colleagues have found that during sleep, some neurons not only replay the recent past but…
About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen first began to accumulate in meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the emergence of complex life.…
When the Australian soap opera Neighbours was canceled in 2022, it signified the end of a cultural institution that had been on air for 37 years.…
