A father mysteriously slips through time in Joseph Eckert’s The TravelerMikhail Rudenko / Alamy Writing this as the UK swelters…
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Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how…
QUICK FACTSName: Fingal’s CaveLocation: Staffa, ScotlandCoordinates: 56.4314, -6.3412Why it’s incredible: The cave is formed entirely of hexagonal volcanic rock columns.Fingal’s…
Paul Erdős made many conjectures about numbers in his lifeOliver Helbig/Getty Images Just a week after an AI disproved an…
With the 2026 cotton planting season in full swing, research out of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station provides a fresh…
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have unearthed a clay pot full of gold, silver and gemstone-encrusted jewelry that may have been…
Gold doesn’t tarnish like other metalsmauritius images GmbH/Alamy Silver goes dull, copper turns green and iron rusts, but gold always…
If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her…
Researchers have developed a system that uses short videos of the eye to estimate a person’s levels of red blood…
Sometimes, you work tirelessly on a problem, only to realise you have been going about it all backwards. Imagine trying…
You’re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you’ve been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on…
Hochosterwitz Castle in southern Austria(Image credit: INTERFOTO via Alamy)Castles were a common sight in the Middle Ages, which lasted from…
Health officials working to tackle Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 21 MayMichel Lunanga/Getty Images A…
A study of one of the world’s longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits damages and generates returns of…
Babies and small children do not handle dry air as well as adults. Their skin and airways are still developing,…
We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Around 100 million years ago, the surface…
Dark matter is an elusive form of matter that almost never emits, absorbs or reflects light, while only weakly interacting…
There’s a new T. rex in town, but this one didn’t hunt on land. It ruled the ancient seas.Scientists have…
Hot flushes are associated with the menopause, but women actually get progressively hotter from the start of adulthood to midlifeDmitry…
New research from a Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences doctoral graduate could help producers better protect poultry…
We recently conducted a group test of beginner telescopes from Celestron, including the AstroMaster 70AZ and the StarSense Explorer LT…
TRAPPIST-1e: The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life | New Scientist Close Close View Original…
Strong relationships with school staff and a sense of belonging at school can protect teenagers’ mental well-being and help reduce…
Archaeologists excavating an unusual “death jar” in Laos have discovered that it was used to collect the partly decomposed remains…
A beach in Southampton, New York, treated with olivine sandChayenne Moreau The first trial to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide by…
Imagine a laptop that never gets hot, a phone that holds its charge for days, or a computer memory chip…
We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan.This involved…
The hybrid known as khipshang is bigger than a wolf but smaller than a dogMorup Namgail There’s no doubt. The…
Inside the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, where some of the most advanced and technical automated infrastructure on campus resides,…
A “super” El Niño is now the most likely scenario from October 2026 to February 2027, according to a new…