Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains.…
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The star Betelgeuse visibly dimmed in 2019. Now, a new analysis reveals why: Betelgeuse blew out and is still recovering. The…
At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing…
Illustration of the wide range of electrocatalytic and photocatalytic processes and applications for porphyrin framework materials. Credit: Nano Research Energy,…
Was Mars ever a living world? Billions of years ago, before it became a freeze-dried desert, the Red Planet was…
A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or…
When under a great deal of heat and pressure, matter goes “supercritical,” and the difference between liquid and gas seems…
Only 20 percent of computer science and 22 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees in the U.S. go to women. Women…
Using density functional theory and measurement data from spin-resolved photoemission, the team investigated the origin of the repeating Au(111) bands…
From airplanes to apartments, most spaces are now designed with sound-absorbing materials that help dampen the droning, echoing and murmuring…
New offshore wind farms built as part of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy are expected to turn the country into…
Russia will opt out of the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2024, the new chief of Russia’s federal space…
Research by the University of Southampton shows future choices about trade, diet and climate change will be crucial in securing…
An ongoing megadrought, impacts from climate change and systematic overuse have created a deep management crisis on the Colorado River.…
Complicated physics problems are sometimes simpler than they appear, so physicists have made a machine learning model to search for…
This podcast was produced for the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson by Scientific American Custom Media, a division…
While many artificial materials have advanced properties, they have a long way to go to combine the versatility and functionality…
For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China.…
Mutant wing disc suffering from proteotoxic stress. Cells in the Posterior compartment (on the right, Cyan-negative) have been manipulated to…
Fossils of a small, prickly dinosaur recently discovered in South America may represent an entire lineage of armored dinosaurs previously…
Flow chart of how the emulator developed by the research team works. Credit: Kavli IPMU, NAOJ By applying a machine-learning…
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world’s oldest computer for its ability to…
To date most research on obesity has focused on studying those with a high body mass index (BMI), but a…
Besides their successful landing on the moon, the astronauts of Apollo 11 made another historic “first” in July 1969 when…
Earth’s current largest ocean, the Pacific, blankets more than 30% of the planet’s surface, stretching 12,000 miles (19,000 kilometers) at…
Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have put Google’s artificial intelligence AlphaFold to the test and have found the…
Pfizer’s Paxlovid can prevent severe covid-19 in vulnerable people when taken as a five-day course at home, but the medicine…
By Rowan Hooper BE WARNED: George Monbiot will put you off your dinner. But that is a good thing –…
As our devices become smaller, faster, more energy efficient, and capable of holding larger amounts of data, spintronics may continue…
CLIMATEWIRE | A surprise climate and energy agreement between Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer promises a…