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Beautiful and surprisingly complex patterns created by “mathematical billiards”Albers et al. PRL 2024 In the mathematical version of billiards, particles that avoid following paths become trapped…
Agent: A person or thing (sometimes in the form of chemicals or energy) that plays a role in getting something done.artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope detected methane emissions from the. CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3 (W1935 for short) is an isolated brown dwarf star with a…
New archaeological excavations show that the Umm Jirsan lava tubes in Halat Khyber, northwestern Saudi Arabia, have been repeatedly visited by humans from at least the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The National Meteorological Center, the government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, stated that they…
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after the eruption of Mount Luang sent volcanic ash thousands of feet into the air. Authorities ordered more than…
They come again with their beady little eyesGeorge Baird/Shutterstock Every spring, billions of cicadas emerge from their underground burrows. Things like this happen so often that…
Ornaments found with burned royal bodies in Mayan temple Dr. Christina T. Halperin About 1,200 years ago, the bones of several royals were burned in a…
Ten years ago, while working as a DJ in Liverpool, England, James Rand would often leave work hearing strange sounds he knew weren't real: high-pitched growls…
Researchers investigate Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava tube systemPALAEODESERTS project, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Archaeologists have discovered, for the first time, evidence of human habitation inside a…
Illustration of a carcass of Ichthyotitan severnensis washed up on the beachSergey Krasovsky The fossilized remains of an ancient 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur unearthed on the coast…
Driver abandons car after rainstorm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 17Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/Getty Record rainfall has hit the Arabian Peninsula this week, causing flooding in Dubai,…
Hala Point neuromorphic computer is powered by Intel’s Loihi 2 chipIntel Corporation Intel has developed the world’s largest neuromorphic computer, a device that aims to mimic…
Changing the color of crops may make it easier to distinguish between target plants and weedsJohn Martin – Photography/Alamy Common crops such as wheat and corn…
Pessimism is a dirty word in climate policy circles. There are good reasons for this. Especially because while optimism can encourage positive change, assuming the worst…
Shutterstock/Ingo Bartusek One of the meteor showers I look forward to every year is the Lyraids, which will peak on April 22nd this year. This time,…
Forget about megalodons being scary, there’s a new prehistoric creature in town with jaws that may rival Meg’s in power, making it the largest marine reptile…
With more than 5,500 exoplanets detected, the search for life is entering a new era. Astrobiologists from Cornell University and the University of Minnesota have used…
Physicist from CMS cooperation at CERN just published the combination of CMS measurements that helped establish the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. CMS event…
A tractor spreading powdered concrete at a silicate testing site in Irelandsilicate carbon A field trial in Ireland suggests that pulverizing the world's vast amounts of…
Brown dwarfs, often referred to as “failed stars,” are a fascinating type of celestial object. They are too large to be considered planets, yet too small…
bacteria: (singular: bacterium) a single-celled organism. They live almost everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the ocean to the insides of other living things (such…
Chromosphaera perkinsii resembles an early stage in the multicellular stage of animal embryonic development dudin lab Originally found in shallow sea sediments around Hawaii, the unicellular…
According to reports, on the night of November 3, 1888, numerous sheep were frightened and ran off from multiple farms in Oxfordshire. The next day, they…
Bumblebees may be more resilient than previously thoughtAaron Bastin/Alamy A lab error has revealed that hibernating bumblebees can survive for at least seven days even when…
A rogue wave is a single swell that is much higher than nearby waves and can cause damage to ships and coastal infrastructure. Ocean waves are…
An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date for coffee arabica, the world's most popular coffee species (arabica coffee tree).…
Tardigrades can withstand amazing amounts of ionizing radiation, about 1,000 times more lethal than humans. How they do so is not fully understood. In a new…
Pluto's surface is dominated by Sputnik Planitia, a giant pear-shaped basin. Although it appears to be of impact origin, modeling has not yet accounted for its…
Parts of the Middle East were hit by heavy rains on Tuesday, leading to school closures in the United Arab Emirates and flooding at Dubai International…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that explores wild ideas about manipulating the universe, such as splitting the moon in half or triggering a gravitational wave…
In 2006, New York Fed economists began to worry that the U.S. housing market was overheating. Worried that the bubble would burst, they used their best…
Tubular legs on the underside of a chocolate chip starfish Matthew McHenry and Eva Canso Starfish can fly hundreds of feet in a coordinated manner, but…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers discovered a nearby binary system of massive stars orbiting a dormant star-derived black hole over a period of 11.6…
NASA confirmed that a piece of metal that crashed through a Florida home last month was space debris from the International Space Station. The 1.6-pound object…
Cyborg cockroaches tested in desert-like terrain Yang Bai et al. (2024) A remotely controlled swarm of cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target location while avoiding…
Note: A phenomenon in which mental resources are focused on a specific object or event.average: Term (in science) for arithmetic mean. The sum of a number…
This artist's impression shows the orbits of both a massive stellar black hole and its companion starESO/L. Calzada Astronomers have discovered Gaia-BH3, the largest stellar black…
Rogue Planet Some planets cannot follow the same orbit throughout their lifetime. Some are set free and wander alone in the vast, empty darkness of interstellar…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, where she oversees the popular Q&A section. She earned an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space…
