Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility.…
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An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by…
The pasta nanofibresBeatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair.…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by…
Xiaomi knows a thing or two about budget-friendly fitness trackers, as we can readily attest. We previously reviewed the Xiaomi…
There is a lot to keep track of when working in spaceNASA via Getty Image Astronauts aboard the International Space…
Use of synthetic biology. An alternative approach to assembling an ultimate genotype is the cloning of ultimate haplotypes into yeast…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Egmont National Park, New Zealand [-39.3019245, 174.0631103]What’s in the photo? Mount Taranaki volcano surrounded by the…
How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid?Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon within Earth’s inner core could explain a long-standing…
Credit: TREEDEO.ST from Pexels How can scientists across climate science, medical and psychological topics foster the public’s trust in them…
A simple difference in the genetic code — two X chromosomes versus one X chromosome and one Y chromosome —…
Do you speak AI?Shutterstock/Ole.CNX Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other faster…
Regional and demographic variation of human-flood dynamics across the CONUS coast. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01848-z A…
Seeds have helped plants evolve into a breathtaking variety of forms that fill our world with color and provide us…
Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new route to materials with complex disordered magnetic properties at the quantum level has been…
Declassified spy images of Iraq have helped archaeologists find a historic Islamic battlefield.Upon analyzing the images, which were taken in…
Measuring the massive coralInigo San Felix/National Geographic Society In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical…
Observed galaxies within the Vela supercluster. Credit: Sambatriniaina H. A. Rajohnson, et al There is a region of the sky…
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high in 2024, and there’s still no sign that they’ve…
The eruption of Mauna Loa in December 2022T. Orr, U.S. Geological Survey It may be possible to forecast the next…
Elephant numbers in Tsavo rose from around 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 in 2021, according to the Kenya…
Along a stream in Tajikistan, archaeologists have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans…
A chimpanzee tackling a number test on a touch screenAkiho Muramatsu The pressure of a watching audience can have positive…
This image provided by the Archeological Park of Pompeii shows cast number 25, made in 1929, from Villa dei Misteri…
The Concorde passenger jet set a record when it flew between New York City and London in 2 hours, 52…
Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a…
A tricolored bat with white-nose syndrome on its snout and wings is seen at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky…
Earth’s surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these…
Hairy animals including mice and dogs shake themselves dryatikinka2/Getty Images If you have ever been close to a dog after…