QUICK FACTSMilestone: Poincaré conjecture solvedWhen: Nov. 11, 2002Where: St. Petersburg, RussiaWho: Grigori PerelmanOn a cold day in November, a man…
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Aron Leah of Fried Cactus This was meant to be a big year for me. I planned to run a…
Brazilian Indigenous leader and climate activist Txai Surui arrives at the Earthshot Prize 2025 awards ceremony at the Museum of…
While excavating near the ancient city of Armageddon in Israel, archaeologists unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite “tea set,” a dollhouse-sized temple,…
Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shapeEverett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo James Watson, one of the…
Bacteria can effectively travel even without their propeller-like flagella — by “swashing” across moist surfaces using chemical currents, or by…
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine…
By Howard Bloom The big question in astrophysics right now is whether our solar system has been penetrated by a…
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar regionNASA/JPL-Caltech The liquid water ocean hidden…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Animals in children’s stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family…
A strange, lopsided dust cloud shrouds Earth’s moon, ever skewed toward whichever side is facing the sun. Now, a new…
The skull now identified as Béla of MacsóBorbély Noémi/Tamás Hajdu et al. 2025 More than 700 years ago, a Hungarian…
Credit: Karola G from Pexels A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated…
Researchers setting up a drill in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica. This work was supported by the NSF Center…
Where did the speed of light come from and why is it so stubborn?NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC The following is…
Two species competing for the same limited resource should not be able to coexist. Interested in cities as “model systems…
Scientists are deliberately triggering earthquakes from a tunnel deep beneath the Alps. Although it may sound like something out of…
Orcas push a juvenile great white shark up to the surface in a clever hunting manoeuvreMarco Villegas Orcas in the…
Houses on Machno Terrace were badly damaged or obliterated by boulder-strewn floodwaters in the Dolgarrog dam disaster of 1925. Credit:…
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s $10 billion…
The wave function of a quantum object may not just be a mathematical constructPobytov/Getty Images Does quantum mechanics really reflect…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A “transformation” is upon us. After a multi-year procession of educational technology products that once promised…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is extremely irradiated from billions of years of cosmic ray bombardments, new research using observations from the James…
The mummified remains of a boy buried in a copper box between 1617 and 1814Annamaria Alabiso An adolescent boy buried…
Credit: Acta Biomaterialia (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2025.09.026 Researchers from Skoltech, ITMO University, and their colleagues have reported new findings about the…
A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved.For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why…
Neanderthals may have used ochre crayons to draw on cave wallsGorodenkoff/Getty Images A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Digital authoritarianism is a new way governments are trying to control citizens using digital and information…
An astronomer recently aimed his telescope above Manciano, Italy, and caught something incredible: a bright comet seemingly wrapped up in…
Exercise has significant benefits for heart healthIan Canham/Alamy Men over 50 may have to exercise more than twice as much…