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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…
Belilus Ordóñez enjoyed hiking and often went on hiking trips with her parents in parks around their Utah home in the summer months. Tragically, she was…
A team of Chinese scientists has assembled a reference genome from telomere to telomere. Korean ginseng (Korean ginseng)A representative of traditional Chinese medicine. Overview of morphological…
The current definition, established by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, states that to be considered a planet, an object must be in the solar system…
People demonstrate outside the UK COVID-19 Inquiry site in London in October 2023. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images “The UK prepared for the wrong pandemic” This…
VIPER won’t go to the moon after all National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA has announced that a completed rover scheduled for launch to the…
Researchers have recently observed an orangutan in the wild treating a wound for the first time. This discovery marks the first evidence of such behavior in…
Paying attention to small details “Academics are often accused of ‘obsessing over the details,'” David Taylor told Feedback magazine. “This year my team and I have…
The last Tokyo Olympics was the hottest on record. The Paris Olympics, which open next week, could be even hotter. Paris, with its wide boulevards, busy…
Sharing access to smartphones can be divisive Frazao Studio Latino/Getty Images Do you share your smartphone PIN with your partner? Over half of those surveyed believe…
Octopuses like the Dorain Octopus may have some degree of consciousness.Victor1153/Shutterstock Below is an excerpt from our nature newsletter, Wild Wild Life. Sign up to get…
summary Four poultry workers in Colorado recently fell ill with avian flu, bringing the total number of cases in the United States to nine. Almost all…
Matt Crosick Media Assignment/PA Images/Alamy Rowan Hooper: Your latest book is Doppelganger: A Journey into the MirrorWhat is this world? Naomi Klein: The mirror world is…
Japanese honeybees flap their wings to knock down ants that try to invade their nest. Ants often invade honeybee hives to steal honey, prey on eggs,…
New Research has introduced an innovative and cost-effective method for diagnosing autism, potentially simplifying and speeding up the diagnostic process. Surprisingly, the new diagnostic test might…
During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., residents were trapped under ash and rock, unable to escape. Surprisingly, a new study shows that some…
Argentine archaeologists analyzed 21,000-year-old fossil remains bearing cut marks belonging to a specimen of the extinct glyptodon. NeosclerocalyptusThe discovery, made in the northeast of the Pampean…
Bolivian coffee growers Amazon Weasel (Neogare Africana) Surveys were conducted near shade-grown plots as part of a citizen science monitoring program. Amazon Weasel (Neogare Africana): They…
Harenadraco Prima It is the first species of troodontid dinosaur to be discovered in the Late Cretaceous Barungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Reconstructing your life Harenadraco PrimaImage…
summary A nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold at auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $44.6 million. Sotheby’s, which handled the auction, said the fossil was the…
The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone.Kate Otter The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs attack…
Next year I will be turning 40. It seems a bit irrational. I feel almost the same as when I celebrated my 20th birthday. I have…
CoulombFly, a prototype of a small solar-powered droneWei Shen, Jingze Peng, and Mingjin Qi Weighing just 4 grams, the drone is the smallest solar-powered aircraft ever…
The black-necked spitting cobra lives mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.Luca Boldrini (CC BY-SA) A commonly used blood-thinning drug could prevent hundreds of thousands of people bitten by…
A jellyfish-shaped robot made from magnetic fluid can be controlled with light through an underwater obstacle course, and swarms of these soft robots could be useful…
Inflammatory molecules (green) are found in liver tissue from aged mice.Anissa A. Wijaya et al. 2024 Blocking an inflammatory molecule known as interleukin-11 (IL-11) extends the…
Depicts ancient humans butchering a glyptodon 21,000 years ago in South America Damián Volino, A. Scasso Museum of Natural Sciences (Collegio Don Bosco), San Nicolás de…
When mixed with hydrogel, protein-based drugs can remain effective for longer at higher temperatures. Shutterstock/Renko Alex Many medicines need to be kept refrigerated or they become…
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It's now well established that to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we need to get to net zero carbon emissions as quickly…
The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone. Kate Otter The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs…
