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To accelerate: To experience a change in speed (velocity).Antarctica: A continent located at the southernmost tip of the world, mostly covered in ice.arctic sea ice: Ice…
If men were encouraged to play outside as children, they may have better navigation skills than women Colin Hawkins/Getty Images/Image Source In fact, men tend to…
Ibex can be at risk from wolves if they move around at nightrobert andrighetto Alpine ibex have become increasingly nocturnal to escape rising daytime temperatures, despite…
Many of us have felt some amount of stress over the past few years. Exhibit A for me is my teeth. A recent trip to the…
Infrared image of Saturn’s icy moon TitanNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Stephane Le Mouelik, Virginia Pasek Saturn’s moon Titan is home to strange “magical islands” that appear and…
A female octopus lays her eggs near a small rock outcrop, informally known as El Dorado Hill.ROV Subastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute Four new species of deep-sea octopus…
'Groundbreaking': Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrixalamy stock photo I Professor of Physics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia He is also the author…
The year was 1974. While newspaper columnists were busy talking about the development of in vitro fertilization and the possibility of “test tube babies,” the surprising…
cloned rhesus monkeyZhaodi Liao et al. After many years and many attempts, a healthy rhesus monkey was finally created by cloning. The clone was born in…
Every year, we put millions of tons of salt onto roads around the world. As you walk through the picturesque streets of Krakow, Poland's Old Town…
Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old, made history in the game when he became the first person to win the Nintendo game Tetris on December 21. The game…
Climate change denial has taken on a new focus, according to a recent report from the Center for Digital Action. Instead of denying that the planet…
A coronavirus vaccine is being administered at Epsom Racecourse in Surrey, England. PA Image/Alamy Around 7,000 people in the UK would have avoided dying or being…
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet passing by the young Sun-like star HD 63433. HD 63433d is located close…
Brazilian anthropologist reconstructs ancient human face Homolonghi This comes from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. portrait of Homolonghi. Image credit: Cicero…
The JN.1 version of the Omicron covid-19 variant was first detected in Luxembourg in August and spread to many countries over the next few months. Jun…
New research from the University of Bristol has revealed the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magma on the Moon. A map of titanium abundance on the moon's…
Joe Marino/UPI Credit/Alamy Live News This is the year of the moon, and it has already begun. The Vulcan rocket's first launch on January 8 marked…
Fish caught in discarded nets in the Great Pacific Garbage PatchOcean Voyages Institute/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock It was a bright sunny day in September 2023. Excitement filled the…
Dengue fever is currently endemic in 100 countries, putting half of the world’s population at risk. The threat has increased dramatically, with the number of dengue…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken new photos of the relatively small galaxy UGC 5189A in the constellation Leo. This Hubble image shows UGC 5189A,…
Fossilized skin fragments collected from the Richards Spur Cave system in Oklahoma, US, are at least 21 million years older than any previously reported skin fossil.…
Coriolis effect (noun, “Kor-ee-OHL-iss Eh-FEKT”) The Coriolis effect causes airborne objects moving over the Earth to travel along curved paths rather than straight lines. This primarily…
line up: (noun: alignment) The arrangement or arrangement of things in a patterned order, following obvious lines. action: the way something, often a person or other…
One of several giant craters discovered in remote areas of SiberiaVasily Bogoyavlensky/AFP via Getty Images A deep cylindrical crater in Siberian permafrost has puzzled researchers since…
Mink are currently being spotted across the UK after escaping from fur farms or being released by animal activists Roy Waller/Alamy Wildlife conservation groups aim to…
In 1540, coins of Henry VIII were made at the Tower of London. One of his masters of the mint was Ralph his knurling, a goldsmith…
Infrared image of Saturn’s icy moon TitanNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Stephane Le Mouelik, Virginia Pasek Saturn’s moon Titan is home to strange “magical islands” that appear and…
The United States is currently in the midst of an outbreak of the new coronavirus. JN.1 variant That's driving up hospitalizations and deaths across the country.…
The concept of time Understanding time can be challenging, as Einstein demonstrated time’s relativity and how it can be experienced differently based on an object’s speed.…
The brain changes significantly during pregnancy Fat Camera/Getty Images Brain scans show that some brain areas become smaller and thinner during pregnancy, and that most of…
In the brief history of space exploration, humans have already made significant changes to the moon. From the cultural legacy of our first footprints to the…
New AI has revealed unexpected discoveries. Surprisingly, your fingerprints aren’t as unique as previously thought. Well, at least when compared to each other. It has long…
discovery of Tyrannosaurus macraiensissister species of the famous one tyrannosaurus rexsuggests that tyrannosaurid dinosaurs originated from Laramidia, an island continent that existed between 100 million and…
The Great Sphinx of Giza may have been carved by desert winds long before humans carved it. Mysterious desert natural structures called yardangs closely resemble a…
X-59 aircraft Lockheed Martin Corporation/Gary Tice An experimental aircraft commissioned by NASA will fly over major U.S. cities at speeds faster than the speed of sound.…
Archaeologists in the Amazon have discovered a series of “lost cities” that have flourished for thousands of years, the results of which were published Thursday in…
Comet 67P Cave/Churyumov Gerasimenko CNES/ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/Guillaume Faury and others We discovered a cave on a comet for the first time. Caverns identified in comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known…
Fingerprints from two fingers on the same hand may look different, but AI can find basic similaritiesAndrey Kuzmin/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence can accurately identify whether fingerprints left…
Ultimately, a network of quantum computers could enable the creation of a more secure quantum internet. hh5800/Getty Images Shopping on an unhackable quantum internet will require…
